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Click here to subscribeCARROLL, Lewis. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. Macmillan and Co, London 1872. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Binding rubbed, soiled, contents shaken, new endpapers. Illustrations by John Tenniel, "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. JAMES, Grace - GOBLE, Warwick (ills.) GREEN WILLOW AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. Macmillan and Co, London 1923. First medium 8vo edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, dustwrapper a little creased. 16 colour plates. RINDER, Frank - ROBINSON T.H. (ills.) OLD WORLD JAPAN. LEGENDS OF THE LAND OF THE GODS. George Allen, London 1895. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial red cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Slightly faded. B/w illustrations. BROWN, John MARJORIE FLEMING A SKETCH. BEING THE PAPER ENTITLED PET MARJORIE A STORY OF CHILD LIFE FIFTY YEARS AGO. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1884. New edition with illustrations. 4to. Brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Colour engraved frontispiece plus 6 further engraved plates, some spotting. Plus 1 other volume, illustrated (5)
KNIGHT, M. Forster. UNCLE BLUNDER'S STUDIO. Country Life Ltd, London 1943. 8vo. Green cloth in dustwrapper. Charming original pen, ink and watercolour sketch of two mice and a butterfly entitled "Mr Tittlewit in His Garden" signed by M. Forster Knight and dated 1944. Colour frontispiece and numerous text illustrations. GRAHAME, Kenneth - SHEPARD, E.H. (ills.) THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Methuen & Co Ltd, London 1959. First edition illustrated in colour. 8vo. Turquoise cloth, gilt in price-clipped dustwrapper, tape repairs to verso. 8 colour plates and numerous line illustrations in text. SEWELL, Anna - ALDIN, Cecil (ills.) BLACK BEAUTY THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HORSE. Jarrolds, London n.d. 4to. Pictorial green cloth, gilt, spine dulled. 18 colour plates. Plus 9 others, children's illustrated. (12)
[POETRY] BYRON, [George Gordon] Lord. HEBREW MELODIES. By Lord Byron. John Murray, London, 1815. [bound with:] CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. Canto the Third. John Murray, London, 1816. [bound with:] CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. Canto the Fourth. John Murray, London, 1818. [bound with:] THE SIEGE OF CORINTH. A Poem. PARISINA. A Poem. John Murray, London, 1816. [bound with:] THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, and Other Poems. John Murray, London, 1816.[bound with:] LARA, A Tale. Fourth Edition. John Murray, London, 1814. [bound with:] ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. Twelfth Edition. John Murray, London, 1816. [bound with:] POEMS. Second Edition. John Murray, London, 1816. [bound with:] A SKETCH FROM PRIVATE LIFE. March 30, 1816 (pp. 11-14 only of a larger work). [bound with:] MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R.B. SHERIDAN. Spoken at Drury Lane Theatre. New Edition. John Murray, London, 1817. [bound with:] THE LAMENT OF TASSO. Fifth Edition. John Murray, London, 1817. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST FIVE WORKS (Varying Issues). Together 11 works bound in one volume , 8vo; contemporary green calf, boards ruled in gilt, rubbed and worn, spine missing; contemporary armorial bookplate of J.C. Key. Plus 18 volumes of poetry and literature from the 1700's and 1800's. (19). An attractive collection of eleven works by Lord Byron, including the first edition of Hebrew Melodies, published in the same year his daughter Ada was born. It is a collection of short poems, mostly on scriptural subjects, though it also contains love songs. It contains the first appearance of "She Walks in Beauty" and "The Destruction of Sennacherib." Also bound in the volume are first editions of the third and fourth Canto's of Childe Harold, as well as The Siege of Corinth and The Prisoner of Chillon.
David Muirhead Bone (British, 1876-1953) El Dos de Mayo, figures and donkeys in a street signed 'M Bone' (lower right) pencil 3 x 5 in. (9 x 12.7 cm.) with a landscape by Keith Baynes, two oil still lifes by Wystawa Obrazow (10 x 9 in.), an abstact oil, and a pencil sketch by Muihead Bone and another by an unknown hand (6)
Charles Sims (British, 1873-1928) Aras signed and inscribed 'C. Sims./France, Aras', with a label inscribed 'This oil-colour sketch on wood was made by mr Charles Sims R. A. during his visit to the battlefields in sept.1918. The subject is the Scarpe Valley with Arras in the distance. A N Lee' (on the reverse) oil on panel 4 x 8 in. (12 x 22.3 cm.)
STUART SUTCLIFFE Three pages of life studies taken from various art school sketch books circa 1960: two from a small sketch book each depicting a backview of a naked model in black ink and wash, both -- 7x4 1/2in. (17 1/2x12cm.), the other annotated on both sides of the page with ink and crayon studies of dancer in various poses -- 10 1/2x8in. (26x20.3cm.); a clipped signature in blue ink S.Sutcliffe -- 0 1/2x2in. (2x5cm.); and a black and white portrait photograph of Sutcliffe circa 1960 [printed later] -- 9 1/2x7in. (23.5x17 1/2cm.) (5)
STUART SUTCLIFFE Three pages of studies taken from various art school sketch books circa 1960: two from a small sketch book in black ink and wash, one a naked life study, the other an interior sketch, both -- 7x4 1/2in. (17 1/2x12cm.), the other annotated on either side of the page in black ink with sketches of human forms in various poses -- 10 1/2x8in. (26x20.3cm.); and the detached cover of a ""BUSHEY"" Sketch Book For Pen Or Pencil.. inscribed by Sutcliffe in black ink SFU Sutcliffe Liverpool College of Art Hope St. -- 4 1/2x7in. (12x17 1/2cm.) (4)
John Lennon A rare autograph manuscript Daily Howl page; and a scarce watercolour, pen and ink cartoon sketch, circa 1957, the page from Lennon's unpublished comic strip the Daily Howl, the top section titled Readers Letters, the lower section titled Weather Report, annotated with an illustration in coloured crayon and black ink of a weather chart showing the UK, the humorous text and illustration headed Price = 1 body (dead) DAILY HOWL, on a page of lined paper taken from an exercise book -- 9x7in. (22.9x17.8cm.); and John Lennon Dad's just not awake until he's had his Shwedded Feet This is not Robert Mitchum watercolour, pen and ink sketch, circa 1957, 8x6 1/2in. (20.3x16.5cm.), on a page of drawing paper glued to the verso of the Daily Howl page.
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906). After Ruysdael; Sketch of a mountain (Righi?). Each pencil and coloured chalks. Each signed with initials, the first lower left, the second lower right, each indistinctly inscribed with title upon the mount. The first 17.5cm x 24.5cm. The second 13.5cm x 19.5cm. Mounted on one page
Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979). 'Breakfast with Friska'. Oil on board. Signed with scratched signature lower right. Bears label verso for Reading Museum and Art Gallery, detailing title and inscribed in pencil 'Retrospective Exhibition 1962?', 34.5cm x 25cm. Also included with this lot is a squared pencil stetch, presumably a preparatory sketch for the finished work, 23cm x 18cm.
Roberts, Edmund, Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat; in the U.S. Sloop-of-War Peacock, David Gheisinger, Commander, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1837, 4to (210mm x 130mm.), title, and front free endpapers with contemporary ownership signature, some spotting, later green cloth. With three other works including William James Hail's 'Tseng Kuo-Fan and the Taiping Rebellion With a Short Sketch of the Later Career' (New Haven, 1927), Josiah Quincy's 'The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, The First American Consul at Canton' (Boston, 1847), and 'Memoirs of the Rev Walter M. Lowrie, Missionary to China edited by his Father' (New York, 1850).
FRANK BRANGWYN - a two-page autograph letter, from The Jointure, Ditchling, to 'My dear Lascelles......happy to hear that you are getting better and will have all the old dowagers from Brighton calling!....', the letter concluding with a sketch of such a scene, signed F.L. from F.B., 1934 10ins x 8ins
WYLLIE (W. L and M. A) - London To The Nore, A & C Black, 1905 Edition de Luxe No 58 of 250 signed copies, 64 colour plates; WYLLIE (W. L) - Marine Painting in Watercolour, tipped-in colour plates, and Sketch Book, tipped-in colour plates; WYLLIE (M. A) - We Were One: A Life of W. L. Wyllie, and 3 other vols, (7 vols).