20th Century
292 AMBERLEY PAPERS. RUSSELL (Bertrand and Patricia, editors) The Amberley Papers: the Letters and Diaries of Lord and Lady Amberley. FIRST EDITION. With 20 plates, 2 vols, pp.552 & 581, orig. green cloth lettered in blue (see below). Hogarth Press, 1937 £75.00
Woolmer 405, describing the following binding variants; 1) green cloth, gilt lettered, 2) deep plum cloth, 3) coarser green cloth, blue lettered, without illustrations. The present copy represents a fourth variant, i.e. green cloth lettered in blue, with all illustrations present. ‘There was something of the ivory tower in this work. My parents had not been faced with our modern problems; their radicalism was confident, and throughout their lives, the world was moving in directions that to them seemed good.’ – Bertrand Russell, Autobiography.
293 ASTON (T. H., General Editor) The History of the University of Oxford. COMPLETE SET. With plates, 8 vols, lge. 8vo, fine with d/ws. O.U.P., 1984-2000 £475.00
Magnificent full dress history of the University. I, The Early Oxford Schools. II, Late Medieval Oxford. III, The Collegiate University. IV, Seventeenth Century Oxford. V, The Eighteenth Century. VI, Nineteenth Century Oxford, Part 1. VII, Nineteenth Century Oxford, Part 2. VIII, The Twentieth Century.
294 AVI-YONAH (Michael) and Ephraim STERN, editors. Encylopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. COMPLETE SET. With about 3000 photographs, maps and diagrams including coloured plates, 4 vols, 4to, with d/ws. O.U.P., 1975-78 £75.00
295 BAYLEY (Harold) Archaic England; An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions. FIRST EDITION. With over 500 plates, illus. and text figures, thk. lge. 8vo, pp.900, neatly rebound in half cloth and boards. Philadelphia and London, 1920 £75.00
296 BERNINI (Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680). WITTKOWER (Rudolf) Gian Lorenzo Bernini; the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. Third edition revised by Howard Hibbard, Thomas Martin and Margot Wittkower. With 126 plates and 138 text illustrations, 4to, pp.302, buckram, with d/w. Phaidon, 1981 £75.00
297 BERTELLI (Carlo, editor) The Art of Mosaic. [Contributions from Per Jonas Nordhagen, Xavier Barral i Altet, Maria Grazia Branchetti, etc.] Translated by Paul Foulkes and Sara harris. Profusely illustrated with full page plates in colour, 4to, pp.360, buckram, with d/w. 1989 £75.00
298 BEVIN (Ernest) BULLOCK (Allan) The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin. Vols I-II, 1881-1945. With plates, 2 vols, binding of Vol II trifle stained, with slightly torn d/ws. Heinemann, 1960-67 £85.00
From the library of A.L. Rowse with his notes for review on some loose sheets and pencil notes in text. ALR clearly had much sympathy for this working class boy born in late Victorian Britain, and comments wistfully ‘How much easier a time I had 20 years later’.
299 BINNS (W. Moore) The First Century of English Porcelain. FIRST EDITION. With 77 plates, 46 of which are coloured, most with several subjects, 4to, pp.268, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, gilt top, binding little chafed. Hurst & Blackett, 1906 £120.00
300 BLAKE (William) Complete Graphic Works. [Introduction and notes by] David Bindman, assisted by Deirdre Toomey. With 765 plates and illus., 4to, silk cloth gilt, fine with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1978 £90.00
301 BLAKE (William) FIGGIS (Darrell) The Paintings of William Blake. With 100 plates including 16 in colour, 4to, orig. quarter buckram and patterned boards (trifle scuffed). New York, 1925 £150.00
Edition limited to 900 copies (this is one of 210 for America). Plates collotyped by Charles Whittingham and Griggs.
302 BOND (Francis) An Introduction to English Church Architecture, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century. FIRST EDITION. With 1400 plates, illus. and plans, 2 vols, 4to, orig. cloth, spines gilt, gilt tops. O.U.P., 1913 £90.00
303 BORENIUS (Tancred) Florentine Frescoes. With 73 plates, over 20 in colour. 4to, pp.141, orig. decorated white buckram, gilt top, [1930] £200.00
Major and pioneering monograph covering the period from the 14th cent. predecessors of Giotto to the later Florentine painters of the mature renaissance.
304 BORENIUS (Tancred) and E.W. TRISTRAM. English Medieval Painting. FIRST EDITION. With 101 full page collotype plates, 4to, pp.66, orig. cloth, cover little dust-soiled and chafed. 1927 £120.00
Seminal survey, well printed in a small edition by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for the Pegasus Press, Paris, and Pantheon, Firenze.
305 BRANDON (Raphael and J. Arthur) An Analysis of Gothic Architecture. New edition. With numerous plates and smaller illus. in text, 2 vols, 4to, orig. cloth. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1903 £120.00
The illustrations consist of over 700 examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc.
306 CARLYLE (Thomas) WILSON (David A.) (Life of Carlyle. Completed by D. Wilson MacArthur.) COMPLETE SET. With plates and illus., 6 vols, demy 8vo, orig. cloth. 1923-34 £150.00
I, Carlyle till Marriage. II, To The French Revolution. III, On Cromwell and Others. IV, At His Zenith. V, To Three-Score and Ten. VI, In Old Age.
307 CASANOVA (Jacques) The Memoirs. Now fully annotated for the first time in English. The Memoirs and Notes translated by Arthur Machen, and introduced by Havelock Ellis. With ornamental initials printed in sanguine, 8 vols, imp. 8vo, handsomely bound in full scarlet levant morocco, spines gilt lettered, gilt inside borders, all edges gilt. 1940 £975.00
Limited and numbered edition, printed by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Francis Meynell. FINE SET, bound for Aspreys. Newman & Wiche 116.
308 CASSELL & CO. Cassell’s History of the Russo-Japanese War. With coloured frontispieces and many plates, illus. and maps, 5 vols, 4to, orig. maroon cloth gilt, one vol. neatly recased. [1904-05] £125.00
Special Edition for subscribers only.
309 CHAMBERS (E.K.) The Mediaeval Stage. With frontispieces, 2 vols, buckram gilt, nice copy. O.U.P., 1925 £100.00
310 CHENEY (Sheldon) Stage Decoration. FIRST EDITION, London issue. With 256 illustrations of stage sets and designs, 4to, pp.160, orig. cloth. Chapman & Hall (USA printed), 1928 £75.00
311 CLAPHAM (Sir Alfred W.) English Romaneque Architecture before [and] after the Conquest. With 114 plates and 96 illus., 2 vols. 1930-34. -- Romanesque Architecture in Western Europe. With 44 plates and 64 illus. and maps. 1936. Together 3 vols, roy. 8vo & 8vo, orig. pale blue and pale green buckram respectively, bindings slightly faded as usual. O.U.P., 1930-36 £120.00
ALL FIRST EDITIONS.
312 CLARK (George T.) Mediaeval Military Architecture in England. FIRST EDITION. With many wood engraved plates and illus., folding plans, etc., 2 vols, thk. 8vo, pp.503 & 566, orig. crimson pictorial cloth gilt, gilt tops. Wyman & Sons, 1884 £125.00
Gross/Graves 827 – ‘Still an important work…’
313 CLARKE (David L.) Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. With coloured frontispieces, 8 plates and about 1200 drawings, 2 vols, 4to, buckram, pp.800, with d/ws. Gulbenkian Archaeological Series, 1970 £75.00
This comprehensive survey contains a virtually complete sample of the surviving culture of the Bell Beaker people.
314 DEFOE (Daniel) A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, Divided into Circuits or Journies. With introduction by G.D.H. Cole. With 48 maps of the English counties and of Scotland after Herman Moll, 2 vols, roy. 8vo, pp. 896, orig. cloth backed boards, gilt tops, other edges untrimmed, spines little dust soiled as usual. 1927 £120.00
BEST MODERN EDITION printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for Peter Davies and limited to 1,000 copies only. From the library of the botanist Sir Edward Salisbury, with ownership signature.
315 DICTIONARY OF BRITISH PORTRAITURE. Edited by Richard Ormond and Malcolm Rogers. Compiled by Adriana Davies and Elaine Kilmurray. 4 vols, cr. 4to, with d/ws. Batsford and National Portrait Gallery, 1979-81 £120.00
The four volumes of this dictionary provide a listing of the portraits of some 5000 famous figures in British history in galleries and collections accessible to the public.
316 DOBELL (Betram, bookseller) Catalogue of Books printed for Private Circulation… described and annotated. Pp.240, neatly bound in cloth. Published by the author, 1906 £85.00
Famous catalogue of private printings, supplementing and in many ways improving upon John Martin’s earlier compilation. ‘It is virtually a bibliography of a difficult and little studied field. Dobell’s lists, and especially his very full descriptions, are extremely valuable’ – Archer Taylor p.78. This copy differs from others that have passed through our hands in recent years in the following respects: 1) there is a portrait frontispiece of Dobell 2) there is a 16 page specimen of the catalogue bound in 3) the original printed front wrappers of the first three parts are inserted at end.
317 ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. FIFTEENTH EDITION. Fully illust. in colour and black and white, 30 vols, 4to, orig. brown leatherette, very good set. 1976 £275.00
COMPLETE SET. Latest edition. Propaedia, 1 vol; Micropaedia, 10 vols; Macropaedia, 19vols.
318 ENCYCLOPEDIA DELLA MUSICA. Direttore: Claudio Sartori. Redazione: A. Bertini, et al. Illustrazioni a cura di Gianfiero Tintori. 4 vols, thk. imp, 8vo, profusely illustrated, orig. quarter red morocco gilt and cloth sides. Milan, G. Ricardi, 1963 £120.00
Illustrated with some 1200 fine plates, some in colour.
319 FERGUSON (George) Signs & Symbols in Christian Art. With 16 coloured plates and 96 black and white plates reproducing paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation collection of renaissance art, 250 text illus. by Mark Voris and Enid Bell, 4to, pp.350, buckram, with d/w. 1955 £85.00
Book designed by Richard Ellis, set in his private cutting of Goudy Deepdene type and printed by the Plimton Press, Norwood, Mass.
320 FERGUSON (John Alexander) Bibliography of Australia, 1784-1900. With plates, 7 vols, roy. 8vo, buckram, all but one vol with d/ws. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, and Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1951-75 £350.00
The standard bibliography for printed matter relating to Australia published between 1784 and 1900. Vols III-VII are Original Editions, limited to 500 copies.
321 FERRIER (Susan) The Works. With introductions by Lady Margaret Sackville, and a Memoir and Correspondence edited by John A. Doyle. HOLYROOD EDITION. With portrait, 4 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt tops. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1929 £150.00
BEST EDITION, original issue. Limited to 350 sets.
322 FOKOS-FUCHS (D.R.) Syrjanisches Worterbuch. Map in pocket at end, 2 vols, pp.1564, roy. 8vo. Budapest, 1959 £75.00
German translations to over 20,000 entries, with 250pp. register of German words at the end. Syrjan, a language with Finno-Ugrian roots, was spoken in the Syktyvkar district of North USSR. The dictionary was originally researched before and during the First World War.
323 GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The Historia Regum Britannia. With contributions to the study of its place in early British History by Acton Griscom. Together with a literal translation of the Welsh manuscript no. LXI of Jesus College, Oxford by Robert Ellis Jones. With 16 plates, p.685, binding slightly spotted. Longman, 1929 £75.00
324 GIBBONS (Grinling) GREEN (David) Grinling Gibbons; his Work as Carver and Statuary 1648-1721. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 248 plates and illus. from photographs, 4to, pp.205, orig. buckram gilt, gilt top, with d/w. Country Life, 1964 £95.00
325 GIRTIN (Thomas) DAVIES (Randall) Thomas Girtin’s Water-Colours. With 16 coloured plates hand tipped on grey backgrounds and 80 other plates and illus., 4to, pp.31, orig. quarter parchment and boards, gilt top, spine little discoloured. Studio, 1924 £75.00
The author’s own copy with his ownership signature; later armorial bookplate of William Howitt Hastings.
326 [GOSSE (Edmund)] Father and Son; A Study of Two Temperaments. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece, pp.7 + 374, newly and handsomely rebound in full green morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, gilt top, the upper cover and spine of the original cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end. Heinemann, 1907 £250.00
‘This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs. It ended, as was inevitable, in disruption. Of the two human beings here described, one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward.’ So begins one of the most remarkable autobiographies of the Edwardian Age, a precursor, in its merciless exposure of cant, of Eminent Victorians. Family piety prompted Gosse to conceal his authorship, but the attempt was soon abandoned. With ownership signature of the social historian Jack Simmons.
327 GREEN (Thomas Hill) Works. Edited by R.L. Nettleship. With portrait, 3 vols, demy. 8vo, contemp. half green calf, spines gilt panelled and lettered, gilt tops. Longman, 1906-08 £180.00
I-II, Philosophical Works. III, Miscellanies and Memoir.
328 HANNOVER (Emil) Pottery & Porcelain: a Handbook for Collectors. Translated from the Danish. Edited with notes and appendices by Bernard Rackham. Profusely illustrated, including plates in colour, 3 vols, roy. 8vo, nice set with d/ws. 1925 £120.00
COMPLETE SET. I, Europe and the Near East: Earthenware and Stoneware. II, The Far East. III, European Porcelain.
329 HARTLAND (Edwin Sidney) Primitive Paternity; the Myth of Supernatural Birth in Relation to the History of the Family. ORIGINAL EDITION. 2 vols, pp.333 & 333, orig. buckram, spines little faded. David Nutt, 1909-10 £75.00
330 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. By Percy Dearmer, A.H. Norway, J.B. Firth and others. A collection of 25 volumes in this series. With many plates by Hugh Thomson, F.L. Griggs, Joseph Pennell and others, maps, 25 vols, cr. 8vo., well bound in contemp. half brown calf, spines gilt lettered, gilt tops, some spines little faded but a very good set. Macmillan, c. 1920 £575.00
A neatly bound set of this attractive series. With blind stamp of Bumpus of Oxford Street; C.M.H. monogram in roundel on upper covers; and ticket of Marks & Co., the immortal booksellers of 84 Charing Cross Road.
331 HOCKNEY (David) David Hockney by David Hockney. Edited by Nikos Stangos. Introductory Essay by Henry Geldzahler. FIRST EDITION. With 434 illus., 60 in colour, 4to, silk cloth gilt, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1976 £75.00
The first printing sold out before publication and it took three reprints totalling another 20,000 copies just to catch up with demand.
332 JACKSON (Thomas Graham) Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture. Second edition, enlarged. With numerous full page plates and other illus. from photographs and drawings, 2 vols, cr. 4to, orig. half parchment gilt and buckram, gilt tops, morocco labels, C.U.P., 1920 £120.00
333 JOBE (Joseph, editor) The Art of Tapestry. Text by Pierre Verlet, Michel Florisoone, Adolf Hoffmeister, and Francois Tabard. Translated from the French. With 88 coloured and 72 black and white plates and smaller illus., lge. 4to, pp.278, buckram gilt. Thames & Hudson, 1965 £75.00
334 JUNG (C.G.) Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology. Authorised Translation by Constance E. Long. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Pp.520, ownership signature of G.C. Field. 1917 £75.00
Enlarged edition of the collection first published in Zurich in the previous year, containing new chapters on the unconscious, introversion and extroversion, and a new introduction by the author.
335 JUNG (C.G.) Contributions to Analytical Psychology. Translated by H.G. and Cary F. Baynes. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Pp.423, binding faded as usual. International Library of Psychology, 1928 £75.00
336 KIPLING (Rudyard) The Maltese Cat. With 4 coloured plates and many other illus. by Lionel Edwards, cr. 4to, pp.62, specially bound in full green morocco with gilt tool of a polo player on upper cover, spine gilt lettered, all edges gilt. Lambourn Press, 1989 £85.00
Special Edition limited to 225 numbered copies signed by Major Ronald Ferguson.
337 LE BRAZ (Anatole) Essai sur L’Histoire du Theatre Celtique. Pp.548. Calmann-Levy, 1904. – Textes Bretons Inedits. Pp.39. Honore Champion, 1904. Together 2 works in one vol, contemp. quarter morocco, orig. wrappers preserved, headband little worn, with ownership stamp of the medievalist Gustave Cohen. Paris, 1904 £75.00
338 LEGGE (Francis) Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, being Studies in Religious History from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D. ORIGINAL EDITION. 2 vols, demy 8vo, pp.265 & 434, well bound in half blue calf, spines gilt lettered, gilt tops, by Bayntun of Bath. C.U.P., 1915 £120.00
339 LEHMANN (John) [Autobiography]. The Whispering Gallery. 1955. – I am My Brother. 1960. – The Ample Proposition. 1966. Together 3 vols, with plates, with slightly torn d/ws. 1955-66 £95.00
COMPLETE SET. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. One of the outstanding autobiographies of the 20th century by one who was in the thick of the literary and publishing worlds in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. Vol II is attractively and appropriately inscribed ‘for Alan [Ross] this story of those who remained at home, with affectionate wishes from John’.
340 MONTAGU (Lady Mary Wortley) Complete Letters. Edited by Robert Halsband. COMPLETE SET. ORIGINAL ISSUE. With 18 plates, 3 vols, buckram, nice set with d/ws. O.U.P., 1965-67 £200.00
341 MOORE (Henry) HEDGECOE (John) Henry Spencer Moore. Photgraphed and edited by John Hedgecoe. Words by Henry Moore. Designed by Nicholas Jenkins. Profusely illustrated, 16 pages in colour, 4to, pp.532, orig. pictorial linen, fine copy in orig. slip-case. Nelson, 1968 £95.00
Moore’s handsome seventieth birthday volume; he provided the text himself.
342 OGG (David) Cardinal De Retz, 1613-1679. With portrait, cr. 8vo, pp.290, well bound in quarter polished calf and marbled boards, spine gilt ruled with lettering piece, gilt top. Methuen, 1912 £75.00
FIRST EDITION. David Ogg’s first book, a modestly styled ‘university essay’, written many years before his great studies of late Stuart England.
343 OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. A corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement, and bibliography of a New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 13 vols. 1970. – SUPPLEMENT. Edited by Robert Burchfield. 4 vols. 1972-86. Together 17 vols, lge. 4to, buckram, with d/ws. O.U.P., 1970-86 £750.00
344 PENNELL (Joseph) Etching and Etchers; Chapters in the History of the Art, together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods. Fourth edition. With 52 plates and illus., imp. 8vo, pp.368, buckram. New York, Macmillan, 1926 £85.00
345 PEPYS (Samuel) The Diary. A New and Complete Transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. COMPLETE SET. With plates and maps, 11 vols, buckram gilt, with d/ws (a few slightly damaged). 1971-83 £350.00
346 PETER OF BLOIS (fl.1160-1204, Archdeacon of Bath) DAVY (Marie M., trans. & ed.) Un Traite de l’Amour du XIIe Siecle. 3 facsimile plates, roy. 8vo, pp.604, contemp. quarter calf, spine gilt, ownership signature of Dr R.W. Hunt and a note by him that it was formerly the French medievalist Gustave Cohen’s copy. Paris, 1932 £75.00
De Amicitia Christiana by Peter of Blois, with French translation and a critical study.
347 PHILOSOPHY. The Journal of the British Institute of Philosophy. Edited by Sydney Hooper, H.B. Acton, Renford Bamborough, etc. VOLS 21-62 (i.e. Nos. 78-242). 42 vols in the original paperbound parts. April 1946 – October 1987 £350.00
Excellent post-war run; just 5 nos. are missing (166, 174, 196, 200-1). Now published at approx. £40 per vol.
348 PRIOR (Edward S.) and Arthur GARDNER. An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England. With 855 illustrations from photographs, 4to, pp.746, orig. buckram, gilt top, publisher’s file copy (withdrawn) with perforated stamp on title, slight ink stain to lower edge just touching some margins, slight internal cracking as usual. C.U.P., 1912 £125.00
349 RACKHAM (Arthur) SHAKESPEARE (W.) A Midsummer-Nights Dream. FIRST EDITION. With 40 mounted coloured plates and many smaller illus. and decorations in black and white by Arthur Rackham, cr. 4to, newly and handsomely bound in full crimson morocco, spine gilt panelled and lettered, all edges gilt, the spine and upper cover of the orig, pictorial cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end, in slip case. Heinemann, 1908 £450.00
350 RACKHAM (Bernard) The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral. With 21 fine full-page plates in colour and 80 in monochrome, lge. 4to, orig. buckram, gilt top, in slip case. Lund Humphries, 1949 £200.00
Standard monograph on the ancient stained glass windows of Canterbury, the results of closer study made possible by their removal to a safe place during the war.
351 READE (Charles) The Cloister and the Hearth. With many illus. by William Martin Johnson, p.1236, well bound in full navy morocco, spine gilt panelled and lettered, all edges gilt. New York & London, Harper & Brothers, c. 1910 £75.00
352 READE (Hubert G.R.) Sidelights on the Thirty Years War. 3 vols, pp.630, 670 & 755, spines little chafed and dull. Kegan Paul, 1924 £120.00
Complete set, very scarce. The author’s own copy, with his ownership signature in each vol.
353 REMBRANDT. The Drawings. COMPLETE EDITION. By Otto Benesch. Enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch. With 1788 plates and illus., 6 vols, 4to, buckram, gilt tops. Phaidon, 1973 £350.00
Revised edition of the monumental standard work, including more than 50 additional Rembrandt drawings, bringing the total to over 1430. I-II, The Leiden years, The Early Amsterdam Period, 1625-1640. III-IV, The Middle Period 1640-1650. V-VI, The Late Period 1650-1669.
354 ROUND (J. Horace) Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage, Law and Family History. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols, pp.390 & 415, orig. buckram, gilt tops, spines little faded as usual. St Catherine Press, 1910 £85.00
Kaminkow 48. Ten of Round’s most penetrating and pungent essays, mainly dealing with genealogical and heraldic fabrications and forgeries.
355 RUSSELL (Bertrand) The Problems of Philosophy. FIRST EDITION. Fscp 8vo, pp.255. Home University Library, [1912] £75.00
Russell’s first original book entirely on philosophy, and his first popular success. He always referred to it as his ‘shilling shocker’.
356 SALZMAN (L.F.) Building in England down to 1540; a Documentary History. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates, roy. 8vo, pp.653. O.U.P., 1952 £85.00
357 SCOTTISH EXHIBITION 1911. Palace of History. Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art & Industry, Glasgow, 1911. Catalogue of exhibits. With approx, 130 plates, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp.1162, orig. cloth. Glasgow, Dalross, 1911 £110.00
With foreword by John Glaister, convenor of the Exhibits Committee.
358 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Works. Edited for the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, John Dover Wilson and others. With frontispieces, 39 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. cloth, spines of some vols faded. C.U.P., 1921-66 £125.00
McKitterick 123. COMPLETE SET OF THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE. All are original issues. Published over a forty-five year period, it was one of the most scholarly and authoritative editions to appear in the 20th century. The typography and design were supervised by Bruce Rogers.
359 SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. LAWRENCE (W.J.) The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies. BOTH SERIES. With 30 plates, 2 vols, pp.280 & 275, orig. buckram backed boards, slight stain on upper board of Vol. 1, lower inner hinge cracked. Stratford upon Avon, 1912-13 £100.00
Edition limited to 760 numbered copies.
360 SKEAT (Walter W.) An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. New Edition, revised and enlarged. Thk. 4to, pp.44+780, orig. cloth, headband strengthened. O.U.P., 1910 £75.00
FOURTH & BEST EDITION, ORIGINAL ISSUE.
361 SPENCE (Lewis) The Problem of Lemuria, the Sunken Continent of the Pacific. FIRST EDITION. With map and 10 plates, pp.249, buckram, upper cover trifle faded. Rider, 1932 £75.00
362 SUMMERS (Montague) The Playhouse of Pepys. FIRST EDITION. With 24 plates, roy. 8vo, pp.500, orig. buckram, very good copy in orig. silk cloth (primary binding). Kegan Paul, 1935 £75.00
363 SWIFT (Jonathan) EHRENPREIS (Irvin) Swift; the Man, his works and the Age. COMPLETE SET. 3 vols, pp.2180, blue cloth with d/ws. Methuen, 1962-83 £125.00
364 TAYLOR (H.M. & Joan) Anglo-Saxon Architecture. With 640 photographs and 475 illus. and drawings in text, 3 vols, imp. 8vo, pp.1160, orig. buckram gilt, with d/ws. C.U.P., 1965-78 £225.00
COMPLETE SET. The standard fully illustrated survey and catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon fabric surviving in the churches of England.
365 THOMPSON (John) An Elementary Greek Grammar for Schools. Cr. 8vo., 2 parts in 1 vol., pp.164 & 166, orig. cloth, neatly rebacked with lettering piece, some leaves little creased. J. Murray, 1921-25 £95.00
Enoch Powell’s Greek Grammar; with some annotations in text, and inserted bifolium ‘The Eight Normal Types of Conditional Sentence’, endorsed with his motto ‘labor omnia vincit improbus’ and his ownership signature, 52 Woodlands Park Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham. It was to this address that the family moved when he was 6.
366 THORBURN (Archibald) British Birds. New edition. With 192 plates in colour, 4 vols, demy 8vo, orig. red cloth, with d/ws. 1925-31 £120.00
Octavo edition with a fresh series of pictures and revised letterpress. The number of plates has been increased from eighty to one hundred and ninety-two. Lady Milner’s set from Great Wigsell.
367 THORNDIKE (Lynn) A History of Magic and Experimental Science [to the end of the 17th Century]. 8 vols, thk. 8vo, buckram, nice set. Columbia U.P., 1943-34-58 £550.00
COMPLETE SET. Vols 3-8 are in the original printing.
368 VICTORIAN SOCIETY. ANNUAL REPORTS. YEARS 1966-93. Together 24 reports, fully illust., pictorial wrappers. 1966-93 £75.00
Issued annually or biennially. A consecutive run covering nearly 30 years; for much of the period the Chairman, later President, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
369 WARNER (Ralph) Dutch and Flemish Flower and Fruit Painters of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. Introd. Thomas Rohan. FIRST & BEST EDITION. With 114 plates comprising 280 reproductions of works by 104 painters, 4to, orig. buckram gilt. Mills & Boon, 1928 £150.00
370 WESTLAKE (Nathaniel H.J.) History of Design in Mural Painting from the Earliest Times to the Twelfth Century. With 443 illus. in text, 2 vols, 4to, orig. quarter cloth and boards. James Parker, 1902-05 £120.00
371 WHITLEY (William T.) Artists and their Friends in England 1700-1799. 2 vols, 24 plates. Medici Society, 1928. – Art in England 1800-[1837]. 2 vols, 24 plates. C.U.P., 1928-30. Together 4 vols, 8vo and roy. 8vo, bindings little soiled and dull. Medici Society & C.U.P., 1928-30 £180.00
COMPLETE SET of this learned history of the English artists, their lives and their paintings from Stuart times to the opening of the Victorian era. The volumes, issued by different publishers in differing formats, are seldom found together. The first work is a presentation copy from Clement Attlee inscribed (to an unknown recipient) ‘with all good wishes for Christmas 1943’. At that time he was Churchill’s wartime Deputy Prime Minister.
372 WHITTINGTON PRESS. THOMAS (Edward) The Diary, 1 January – 8 April 1917. Forward by Myfanwy Thomas. Introduction by Roland Gant. With 8 wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn, roy. 8vo, p.50, quarter maroon cloth and boards, gilt top, in slip case. 1977 £125.00
Edition limited to 575 copies numbered and signed.
