196 ABBOTT (G. F.) Macedonian Folklore (Results of Researches into the Folklore of the Greek Speaking Parts of Macedonia). ORIGINAL EDITION. Pp.382, orig. cloth, gilt top, printed label, binding dust soiled. C.U.P. 1903     £75.00

197 ADAM (Robert B.) The R.B. Adam Library relating to Dr Samuel Johnson and his Era. Fully illus. with plates and facsimiles, 3 vols, cr. 4to, orig. Oxford blue cloth, gilt tops, headbands trifle chafed. O.U.P., London & New York, 1929     £350.00
Only 500 sets printed for the author at Buffalo, N.Y. Fine catalogue of a splendid collection, now part of the Hyde library. A supplementary vol. was issued later, but is rarely present.

198 ARCHER (Jeffrey) First among Equals. FIRST EDITION. With cartoons by Charles Griffin, pp.446, with d/w. 1984     £75.00
Follows the careers of four high flyers elected in 1964; to their ultimate destiny. This copy was formerly in the possession of Sir Brian Batsford, M.P., (the illustrator Brian Cook), one of Lord Archer’s seconders on his arrival at the House, with his ownership inscription and a number of annotations on parliamentary procedure in text.

199 BEATON (Cecil) The Wandering Years. Diaries: 1922-1939. FIRST EDITION. 38 plates, and many line drawings in text, pp. 387. 1961    £75.00
PRESENTATION COPY inscribed affectionately by the author to Sir Brian Batsford.

200 BEERBOHM (Max) Fifty Caricatures. FIRST EDITION. With 48 aricatures mounted on grey backgrounds and 2 in line, sm. 4to, orig. green pictorial cloth with design in gilt by the artist on upper cover, binding little chafed, bookplate removed from front paste down. Heinemann, 1913     £85.00

201 BENNETT (Arnold) Clayhanger. Thk. cr. 8vo, pp. 582, orig. cloth, the wartime text paper a little browned. Methuen, [1915]     £150.00
PRESENTATION COPY with an attractive inscription in Bennett’s hand on front endpaper; ‘The author signs this book for the daughter of Thackeray & the daughter of Dickens, with due respect, & with best wishes for the success of the Book Stall on 22 November 1916.’ Bennett’s knowledge of bookstalls was wide and varied; his novel Riceman Steps about the charming but miserly secondhand bookseller appeared a few years later – ‘He always bought cheap or not at all; but he would sell cheap, with very rare exceptions. If he picked up a first edition worth a pound for two shillings, he would sell it for five ..’

202 BETJEMAN (John) Collected Poems. Compiled with introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. Fifth impression. Pp.xxvi+279, with d/w. J. Murray 1959     £250.00
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE POET to his friend Leonora Ison, with charming full-page holograph inscription ‘John Betjeman for Leonora Ison 1959’ within a sketchy ‘cartouche’ of squiggles and flourishes and jokey subscription ‘Art for Art’s Sake.’ Leonora Ison illustrated all his ‘Men & Buildings’ articles in the Daily Telegraph. She ‘captured Betjamin country in its heyday, echoed his world as he saw it, a sort of visualising amanuensis’ (Frank Delaney).

203 BIRRELL & GARNETT (Booksellers) Catalogue of Typefounders’ Specimens, Books Printed in Founts of Historic Importance, Works on Typefounding Printing & Bibliography. With 12 plates in line, 4to, pp.120. orig. wrappers. 1928     £75.00
Appleton, Morison, 272, and A Tally of Types, p.56. Famous catalogue, written by Graham Pollard with assistance from Stanley Morison; printed by Walter Lewis at C.U.P. Nice copy in Birrell & Garnett’s original envelope.

204 BOOK OF THE BENCH. The Book of the Bench. With 39 hand tipped coloured plates from paintings by Spy and other cartoonists, 4to, orig. cream parchment gilt, gilt top, binding spotted, one plate has at some time been remounted. James Mackenzie, 1909     £150.00
Famous gallery of Edwardian judges by the leading cartoonists of the day. This copy was formerly in the possession of F.W.Morgan, Hastings solicitor, with some pencil notes in the descriptive text in his hand; a quantity of relevant newspaper cutting are also present.

205 BOSCH (Robert, GmbH) Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. Bearbeitet von Susanne Koppel, Renate Loschner und Brigit Kirschstein-Gamber. With 264 plates and maps, 243 in colour, 2 vols in 3, 4to, cloth with printed labels, with d/ws. Stuttgart, 1986-91     £180.00
COMPLETE SET. I, 16-19 Jahrhunderts. II, 1, Nachlass des Prinzen Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied Illustrationen zur Reise 1815 bis 1817 in Brasilienen. II, 2, Nachlass des Prinzen Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied Abbidungen und Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte Brasilienens.

206 BOSWELL (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson. Together with, The Journal of a Tour to The Hebrides. Edited by Clement Shorter. Together 10 vols, demy 8vo, with plates and illus., orig. quarter parchment and boards, printed labels, gilt tops, other edges untrimmed, very good set with spare labels at end of each vol. New York, Doubleday, Page, for Gabriel Wells, 1922     £250.00
TEMPLE BAR EDITION, limited to 785 numbered sets. With bibliographical introductions by the editor and other introductions by A. L. Reade, Augustine Birrell, G. K. Chesterton, A. Edward Newton, C. B. Tinker and others. Pottle 100.

207 --London Journal, 1762-63. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Frederick A. Pottle. FIRST EDITION. With plates, pp.490, orig. quarter vellum and buckram gilt, gilt top, in slip case. Heinemann, 1951     £75.00
EDITION DE LUXE, Limited to 1050 numbered copies.

208 --POTTLE (Frederick A.) James Boswell; the Earlier Years, 1740-1769. – BRADY (Frank) James Boswell; The Later Years, 1769-1795. Together 2 vols, with coloured frontispiece and 18 plates and illus, lge. 8vo, orig. cloth and quarter cloth. 1966-84     £75.00

209 --TINKER (C. B.) and F. A. POTTLE. A New Portrait of James Boswell. With coloured frontispiece and 9 photogravure plates, cr. 4to, pp.24, orig. quarter cloth and maroon boards. Harvard U.P., 1927     £75.00
Only 425 copies printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers. George Willison’s portrait, here first reproduced, is probably now the best known representation of Boswell.

210 --YALE UNIVERSITY. Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University. Edited by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott and Frederick A. Pottle. 3 vols, pp.1440, with d/ws. Yale Editions of Boswell’s Private Papers, Research Editions, Edinburgh U.P. and Yale U.P., 1993     £120.00

211 BOUDIN (Eugene) JEAN-AUBRY (G) Eugene Boudin. Translated from the French. With 207 illus. including 50 hand tipped coloured plates, 4to, pp.246, cloth gilt, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1969     £75.00

212 BOYS. BEHRENS (Lilian Boys) Under Thirty-Seven Kings; Legends of Kent & Records of the Family of Boys. With 21 plates and 13 text illus, imp. 8vo, pp.170, orig. navy buckram, gilt top, binding faded as usual. 1926     £75.00
Small edition only, published by the Saint Catherine Press for the author’s family; with her presentation to a cousin tipped in. Later in the library of S. Hobbs, Guinea Hall, Sellindge, with some annotations in text in his hand.

213 BRETT (Henry, publishers) Brett’s Colonists’ Guide and Cyclopaedia of useful knowledge … Edited by Thomson W. Leys. With 553 wood engraved illus in text, thk. 8vo, pp. 6, 9-1176, 12, 1177-1208, recently rebound in half green morocco, one index leaf little frayed in margins, perhaps bound without a blank prelim but a good copy. Auckland, 1902     £120.00
Everything the colonist might want to know .. on farming, horticulture, natural history, health and welfare, cookery, the law, mechanical contrivances etc.

214 BRITISH MUSEUM. TILES. EAMES (Elizabeth S). Catalogue of Medieval Lead-Glazed Earthenware Tiles in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities. With 8 coloured plates and over 3000 line drawings, 2 vols, 4to, buckram, with d/ws. 1980     £ 100.00
The collections of medieval tiles in the Department of Medieval andLater Antiquities are unrivalled. Volume 1 consists of sixteen chapters on all aspects of lead-glazed tiles including detailed discussion of methods of decoration and manufacture. The catalogue follows, and lists 13,822 tiles. Volume 2 contains over 3,000 drawings of the decorative designs on the tiles, and the shapes and arrangements of tile mosaics.

215 BRITISH UNION – CATALOGUE OF EARLY MUSIC; A Record of the Holdings of over One Hundred Libraries throughout the British Isles. Edited by Edith B. Schnapper. 2 vols, 4to, pp.1216, spines little faded. 1957     £225.00
Comprehensive record of the printed music published before 1800 and including a great quantity of pieces issued in many European countries as well as Britain.

216 BROCKLEHURST (H.C.) Game Animals of the Sudan, their Habits and Distribution; a Handbook for Hunters and Naturalists. Foreword by J.G.Millais. With 12 coloured plates by W.H.Riddell, 14 other plates from photographs and many text illus, folding map, pp.189, newly bound in half tan morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, the upper side of the orig. cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end. Gurney & Jackson,1931     £220.00

217 BRUNELLESCHI (Filippo) BATTISI (Eugenio) Brunelleschi: The Complete Work. Translated by Robert E. Wolf. With 358 illustrations from photographs and drawings, almost all previously unpublished, 4to, pp. 400, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1981    £95.00

218 CÉZANNE (Paul) CHAPPUIS (Adrien) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonne. Introd. Paul Constable and Jacques Fejoz. With approx. 1400 illustrations, 2 vols, 4to, buckram, leather spine labels. Thames & Hudson, 1973     £350.00
I, Introduction and Catalogue. II, Plates.

219 CHAMBERLAIN (William H.) The Russian Revolution 1917-1921. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With 30 plates and 10 maps, 2 vols, roy, 8vo, buckram, Macmillan, 1935     £75.00
A.H.A. Guide, C.245 – ‘Contains numerous documents and extensive bibliography. By far the best account of the great Russian upheaval in any language.’

220 [CHRISTIE-MILLER (S.R.)] The Britwell Handlist or Short-Title Catalogue of the Principal Volumes from the Time of Caxton to the Year 1800. Formerly in the library of Britwell Court. Frontispieces and numerous plates of facsimiles, 2 vols, cr. 4to, pp. 1081, orig. cloth. Bernard Quaritch [printed by John Johnson at O.U.P.]1933    £125.00
At Britwell Court in Buckinghamshire was gathered the greatest library of English books brought together by a private individual, William Henry Miller of Craigentinny (1789-1848). Subsequent Christie-Millers made major additions to it until 1898. Dispersal began in 1916 and continued through Sotheby sales to 1927. Most of the important books went to Henry Huntington (via George D. Smith and Dr Rosenbach) and to Sir Leicester Harmsworth. This catalogue, compiled by the last Britwell librarian, Herbert Collmann, was issued as a permanent memorial to a prodigious collection. DUDLEY MASSEY’S COPY with a T. L.s to him from the bookseller Charles Stonehill, dated 25 April 1947, inserted.

221 CHURCHILL (Winston S.) DICKINSON (F.A.) Lake Victoria to Khartoum with Rifle and Camera. Introduction by Winston Churchill. With 81 illus. from photographs, pp.19 + 334, newly and handsomely rebound in full crimson morocco, spine gilt panelled and lettered, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, the spine and upper cover of the orig. cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end. John Lane, 1910     £250.00
Woods B4. FIRST EDITION. Includes, as well as Churchill’s Introduction, a chapter ‘Mr Churchill’s Journey through Uganda to Khartoum’ when the author was officer in charge of Churchill’s party.

222 COLUMBUS (Christopher) The Voyages… Journals of his first and third, and letters concerning his first and last voyages… Translated and edited with introduction and notes by Cecil Jane. With 5 maps, 1 folding, 4to, pp. 352, orig. quarter vellum and grey buckram with coloured crest on upper cover. Argonaut Press, 1930     £75.00
Edition limited to 1050 numbered copies printed on japon vellum by Walter Lewis at C.U.P.

223 DAUMIER (Honore) SADLEIR (Michael) Daumier; the Man and the Artist. FIRST EDITION. With 92 full page plates, some coloured and mounted on contrasting backgrounds, 4to, pp. 50, orig. cloth gilt, gilt top. Halton & Truscott Smith, 1924     £75.00
Only 700 copies printed.

224 DAVID (Sir Percival, trans. & ed) Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko Ku Yao Lun. The Essential Criteria of Antiquities. A Translation, with a Facsimile of the Chinese Text of 1388. [Seen through the press by Basil Gray]. With 32 half tone plates containing approx. 80 illustrations, 3 coloured plates, 4to, pp.413, orig. buckram, with d/w. Faber, 1971     £120.00

225 DEGAS (Edgar) MANSON (J. B.) The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. With 89 plates of which 8 are in colour, 4to, pp.61. orig. quarter vellum and boards, gilt top. The Studio, 1927     £75.00
Presentation copy from the author with signed holograph inscription to Mrs E. Payne.

226 DELACROIX (Eugene) HUYGHE (Rene) Delacroix. Translated from the French. With 56 coloured plates and 405 black and white illus., 4to, pp. 564, canvas gilt, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1963     £75.00

227 DOBELL (Bertram, 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.789. This copy differs from others that have passed through our hands in recent year in the following respects. 1) there is a 16 page specimen of the catalogue bound in 2) the original printed front wrappers of the first three parts are inserted at the end.

228 DRUITT (Herbert) A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses. FIRST EDITION. With 110 plates and illus., thk. 8vo, pp.407, orig. navy cloth gilt, gilt top. De La More Press, 1906    £75.00

229 DURRIEU (Paul) La Miniatrue Flamande au Temps de la Cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). With 103 full page plates reproducing 153 examples, lge. 4to, pp.82, handsomely bound in half navy levant morocco gilt, contrasting lettering piece, orig. wrappers preserved, fine copy. Brussels & Paris, Van Oest, 1921     £225.00

230 EVANS (Joan) Art in Mediaeval France 987-1498. Third edition, with additional bibliography. With frontispiece and 280 plates and illus. from photographs, thk. roy. 8vo, pp.353, buckram, with d/w. O.U.P.,    £75.00

231 GASKELL (Elizabeth) Works. With Introductions by A.W. Ward. KNUTSFORD EDITION. With plates, 8 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. red cloth gilt, some spines little faded as usual (one trifle chafed) but a good set. J.Murray, 1906-19     £185.00

232 GLADSTONE (W. E.) The Gladstone Diaries. Edited by M. R. D. Foot and H. C. G. Matthew. COMPLETE SET. With plates, 14 vols, lge. 8vo, with d/ws. O.U.P, 1968-94     £475.00
Currently published at c. £1250.00. Offered at a moderate price as there is some pencil marking in text in Vols 1-9, some yellow highlighting in Vol 1, and red biro marking in Vol 9.

233 GLAISHER COLLECTION. RACKHAM (Bernard) Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. With 44 plates in colour and 266 in black and white, 2 vols, 4to, cloth gilt with d/ws. Limited Edition. Antique Collectors Club, 1987     £75.00

234 GOYA (F.) The Drawings. By Pierre Gassier. Translated from the French. Fully illus. with plates, 2 vols, 4to, cloth gilt, with d/ws. Thames & Hudson, 1973-75     £150.00
Standard catalogue raisonne of all Goya’s known drawings, all of which are illustrated. I, The Complete Albums, with 482 illus. II, The Sketches, Studies and Individual Drawings, with 407 illus in colour.

235 GREEN (J. R.) A Short History of the English People. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Edited by Alice Stopford Green and Kate Norgate. With many illus, including plates printed in colours and maps, 4 vols, roy, 8vo, contemp. half morocco, spines gilt ruled and lettered. Newnes, 1907-08     £120.00

236 GREENHILL (Frank A.) Incised Effigial Slabs. With 340 illus. on 160 plates and 60 text figures, 2 vols, 4to, with d/w’s, in slip case. Faber, 1975     £120.00

237 HASKINS (Charles H). The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Lge. 8vo, pp. 447, orig. cloth, gilt top. Harvard U.P. , 1927     £85.00
FIRST EDITION of the classic study, with good academic provenance. PRESENTATION COPY from the author to G. M. Trevelyan with T. L. s. inserted (‘I am very proud that you should like my book’), and with GMT’s ownership inscription and critical annotations on half a dozen pages. Later in the library of Daniel Waley, historian of medieval Italy, with his signature.

238 HIROSHIGE. STRANGE (Edward F.) The Colour Prints of Hiroshige. With 52 plates including 16 in colour, 4to, pp.205, orig. cream cloth, cover slightly dust soiled. Cassell, 1925     £85.00

239 HOBSON (G.D.) Maioli, Canevari and Others. With 64 plates, 6 in colour, 4to, pp.194, nice copy with d/w. Monographs on Bookbinding,Ernest Ben 1926     £180.00
FIRST EDITION of Hobson’s first book. ‘The best bit of work on bindings which has been done in England… a really fine piece of connoisseurship.’ – A.W. Pollard.

240 HOBSON (R. L.) Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. With 40 plates in colour and 96 in black and white, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. red cloth gilt, gilt tops, nice copy. New York & London, 1915     £220.00

241 HOLKHAM BIBLE PICTURE BOOK (The) Edited with introduction and commentary by W. O. Hassall. With 84 full page plates including 8 in colour, folio, pp.200, orig. threequarters, maroon morocco and blind stamped vellum sides, edges untrimmed. Dropmore Press, 1954     £250.00
Complete reproduction in facsimile of the 14^th century MS with its important corpus of illustrations of English medieval life, formerly owned by the Earl of Leicester and now in the B. M. The facsimile, printed on hand made paper by O.U.P., was originally intended for publication by the Roxburghe Club.

242 INGERSOLL (Robert H., 1839-99, American atheist and controversialist). The Works. DRESDEN EDITION. With portraits and plates, 12 vols, demy 8vo, orig. green cloth, printed labels, gilt tops, trifle dust soiled. New York, C.P. Farrell, 1902     £85.00
Library edition, with comprehensive index in the last volume. Ingersoll was the leading American orator of his generation and unequalled as a propagandist of free thought.

243 JENKINS (Minna, Lady) Sport and Travel in both Tibets. FIRST EDITION. With double page map and 25 coloured plates from drawings by the author, imp. 8vo, newly bound in half violet morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, gilt edges, the upper cover of the orig. cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end. Blades,East&Blades,1909     £250.00

244 JONES (Inigo) Designs for Masques & Plays at Court. Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes mainly in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. Introduction and notes by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell. Coloured frontispiece and 51 plates, several containing multiple reproductions, 4to, pp. 166, orig. quarter linen and boards. O.U.P. for the Walpole and Malone Societies, 1924     £100.00
W. W. Greg assisted the editors.

245 JUDEICH (Walther) Topographie von Athen. Zweite vollstandig neuabeitete auflage. With 24 plates, 4 folding coloured plans in pocket and 56 text illus., roy. 8vo, pp.485, buckram. Enoch Powell’s copy with ownership. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, Munich, 1931     £75.00

246 KER (Neil R., editor) Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Completed by Andrew Watson and A. J. Piper. COMPLETE SET. 4 vols, demy. 8vo, buckram. O.U.P., 1968-92     £350.00
Magisterial survey of the medieval mss. in the numerous smaller libraries and collections in Great Britain, many of them hitherto uncatalogued. I, London. II, Abbotsford-Keele. III, Lampeter-Oxford. IV, Paisley-York.

247 KEYNES (Sir Geoffrey) Bibliotheca Bibliographici: A Catalogue of the Library formed by Geoffrey Keynes. 45 collotype plates, thk. 4to, pp.23+444, orig. two tone cloth gilt. 1964     £120.00
Only 500 copies printed at the Curwen Press for the Trianon Press. Sir Geoffrey’s Presidential Address to the Bibliographical Society, entitled Religio Bibliographici, is printed in full at the beginning.

248 KOKOSCHKA (Oskar) Watercolours; Drawings; Writings. [With his 1912 lecture ‘On the Nature of Visions’]. Introduction by John Russell. With 16 watercolours reproduced in colour, each mounted as a drawing, 16 drawings each reproduced full-page. 4to, orig. black cloth with coloured reproduction of a watercolour on upper side, with orig. protective polythene wrapper. Thames & Hudson, 1962     £85.00
Two slip-in frames are provided at the end to aid the study of the Swiss-printed productions, all of which have been made detachable for this purpose.

249 LEISTIKOW (Dankwart) Ten Centuries of European Hospital Artichecture. Translated from the German. With 249 plates from photographs and 21 texts illus. and plans, 4to, pp.108, with d/w. Ingelheim an Rhein, 1967     £75.00

250 LINDAUER (Gottried), 1839-1926) Pictures of Old New Zealand; The Partridge Collection of Maori Paintings. Described by James Cowan. FIRST EDITION. With portrait and 71 full page plates of paintings, 3 other plates, 4to, pp. 215, orig. backram with coloured illus, on upper cover. Auckland etc., Whitcombe & Tombs, 1930     £120.00
Descriptive catalogue of Lindauer’s important series of paintings from life of leading Maoris and their way of life in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, commissioned by H.E. Partridge.

251 LION-GOLDSCHMIDT (Daisy) and Jean-Claude MOREAU-GOBARD. Chinese Art: Bronze, Jade, Sculpture, Ceramics. Translated by Diana Imber. Foreword by George Savage. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 65 plates in full colour, 133 illustrations in black and white, roy. 4to, pp.428, orig. buckram, with d/w. Studio Books, London [printed in Switzerland, Office du Livre], [1961]     £150.00

252 LUBBOCK (Basil) Adventures by Sea from Art of Old Time. Preface by John Masefield. FIRST EDITION. With 115 coloured and other plates, 4to, pp.50, orig. buckram gilt, gilt top, decorative endpapers, spine faded. The Studio, 1925     £85.00
Limited Edition, numbered.

253 MACDIARMID (Hugh) The Islands of Scotland. With coloured frontispiece and 88 plates and illus, pp.20 + 140, orig. violet cloth with pictorial d/w by Brian Cook, slight marks on endpapers. Batsford, 1939     £75.00
FIRST EDITION. ‘The Islands of Scotland’ was no conventional travel book … like his recent poetry, [it] was the result of reading rather than direct observation … the poems Macdiarmid contributed to the book are of considerable interest as fragments from the Cornish Heroic Song’ – Alan Bold, Macdiarmid.

254 MASEREEL (Frans) AVERMAETE (Roger) Frans Masereel. Fully illustrated in black and white and with hand tipped coloured plates, 4to, pp.318, silk cloth and quarter parchment, with d/w, in slipcase. Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 1975     £85.00
With bibliography by Pierre Vorms and Hanns-Conon von der Gabelentz.

255 MODERN MASTERPIECES. A Unique Collection of Plates reproduced in colour from Famous Paintings by Modern Artists. And, an outline of modern art by Frank Rutter. IN THE ORIGINAL 24 PARTS AS ISSUED. With 105 hand tipped plates and about 100 black and white illus, 4to, orig. stiff wrappers with a duplicate of one of the coloured plates mounted on upper wrapper, slight signs of use but a very good set in orig. state. Newnes, [1935-36]     £75.00
From the Impressionists to Picasso – with a final, wary, glance at Surrealism.

256 MORTON (Alan Q.) and Jane A.Wess. Public and Private Science; the King George III Collection [Science Museum]. With 962 illus, many in colour, 4to, pp.720, buckram gilt, gilt top, in slip case. O.U.P. & Science Museum, 1993     £85.00

257 NELSON (Thomas & Sons, publishers). Standard Books. An annoted and classified guide to the best books in all departments of literature. 4 vols, cr. 4to, orig. half morocco patent binding, gilt tops, small library stamp on titles. [1913]     £85.00
General editor: C. F. Tweney. ‘The first scientifically classified and fully annotated guide to the whole field of literature. Further, it is the first work published in Great Britain on a principle which allows for the addition and substitution of other leaves containing later information, which will be supplied at regular intervals.’ Nice set in original state, complete with the key for unlocking the patent binding mechanism. No further edition seems to have been published, but the binding principle, a monument to Scots ingenuity, persists to this day.

258 NONESUCH PRESS. DONNE (John) Love Poems. With some Account of his Life taken from the Writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton. With portrait, roy. 8vo, pp.155, orig. quarter vellum and decorated boards and endpapers, edges untrimmed, corners little bumped. 1923     £135.00
Dreyfus 1. Keynes 131. The first book issued by the Press; edited by Vera Meynell. Donne was an appropriate choice, then at the height of his posthumous reputation. The Love Poems had the benefit of a laudatory review by Eliot, and the 1250 copies sold out within the year. The book was hand set in Fell types by O.U.P.

259 --BLAKE (William) [Collected] Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. With portrait and 58 collotype plates from Blake’s engravings and paintings, 3 vols, 4to, orig. quarter parchment and marbled board sides, spines somewhat discoloured as often. 1925     £275.00
Dreyfus 24. Bentley Blake Books 370A. Limited and numbered edition, printed on Vidalon handmade paper. Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s monumental and handsome edition; produced and supervised by Frances Meynell, who believed it to rank with the Shakespeare as the most useful and generally creditable of Nonesuch publications.

260 OLDHAM (J. Basil) Blind Panels of English Binders. With reproductions of about 250 panels, folio, pp.71, orig. bevelled buckram, leather label. C.U.P., 1958     £150.00

261 ORCUTT (William Dana) The Book in Italy during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. With introduction by Guido Biagi. With 128 plates, 3 in colour, 4to, pp.220, orig. quarter vellum and boards, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, binding trifle dust soiled, corners little bumped. Harrap, 1928     £100.00
Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

262 PICASSO (P.) Je suis le Cahier; The Sketchbooks of Picasso. Edited by Arnold and Marc Glimcher. With over 600 plates and illus., many in colour, 4to, pp.350, silk cloth, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1986    £75.00

263 --BOECK (Wilhelm) and Jaime SABARTES. Picasso. FIRST EDITION. With over 600 illus, including 44 hand tipped coloured plates, 4to, pp. 524, pictorial cloth with a design in black and white by the artist, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1961     £85.00

264 COLPASSO (Cipriano, c.1523-79) I Tre Libri dell’Arte del Vasaio. The Three Books of the Potter’s Art. With 160pp. of facsimile, 2 vols, 4to, quarter buckram and boards, printed labels, in slipcase. Scolar Press, 1980     £75.00
High quality facsimile of the MS in the Victoria and Albert Museum; with translation and introduction by Ronald Lightbown and Alan Caiger-Smith.

265 PIRANESI (G. B). FOCILLON (Henri) Giovanni-Battista Piranesi. 34 plates, 4to, pp.348, neatly bound in cloth, leather label, orig. wrappers preserved. Paris, 1918     £85.00

266 PLATO. OPERA. Recognovit, brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Ioannes Brunet. 5 vols in 6, cr. 8vo, ownership signature of Enoch Powell in each vol. Oxford Classical Texts, 1937     £125.00

267 ROBERTSON (Frederick L.) The Evolution of Naval Armament. FIRST EDITION. With 8 plates and 20 illus. in text, pp.316 + 72 adverts, newly bound in half calf with lettering piece. Constable, 1921     £85.00

268 ROSSI (Filippo) Italian Jewelled Arts. Translated from the Italian. With 85 hand mounted plates in gold and colours, 8 plates in gold and silver and 42 black and white illus., 4to, pp.233, silk cloth gilt, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1957     £65.00

269 ROWAN (Ellis, 1848-1922) Flower Paintings. With introduction by Margaret Hazzard and notes on the flowers by Helen Hewson. With 20 fine plates reproduced in full colour and 15 illus. in text, folio (16.5 x 11.5 inches), orig. canvas and quarter buckram, fine in slipcase with printed label. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1988     £85.00
High quality reproduction of 20 of the best botanical paintings of a notable Australian artist, selected from over 950 in the N.L.A. collections. With biographical account and notes. Printed at the Griffin Press, Adelaide, in a small edition only.

270 SAINTSBURY (George) A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. 3 vols, demy 8vo, orig. cloth. Blackwood, 1922-29     £120.00
From the library of J. I. M. Stewart, Reader in English at Oxford, literary historian, and author (as Michael Innes) of detective fiction, with his ownership signature.

271 SITWELL (Edith) A Notebook on William Shakespeare. FIRST EDITION. Pp.245, spine trifle dull. Macmillan, 1948     £75.00
PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author ‘James Pope-Hennessy with best wishes from Edith Sitwell.’

272 SPARROW (Walter Shaw) Angling in British Art through Five Centuries: Prints, Pictures, Books. Foreword by H. T. Sheringham. With 200 illustrations including 39 colour plates, 4to, pp. 310. 1923     £85.00

273 STEFANSSON (Vilhjalmur) My Life with the Eskimo. FIRST EDITION. With 60 plates from photographs, many with two subjects, 2 folding maps. thk. 8vo, pp.9+538, newly and handsomely bound in half navy morocco, spine panelled and lettered in gilt, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, the spine and upper cover of the orig. cloth binding neatly mounted and preserved at end, little light staining at beginning but a nice copy. New York, Macmillan, 1913     £250.00

274 STERNE (Laurence) CROSS (Wilbur) The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. New Edition, with many letters never before printed. With 15 plates, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp.306 & 340, orig. ruby cloth, gilt tops, Yale U.P.,1925     £85.00

275 STRACHEY (Lytton) Queen Victoria. FIRST EDITION. With 9 plates, pp. 325, orig. cloth, printed label, binding little chafed. 1921    £85.00
PROVENANCE; 1) Humbert Wolfe, poet, with his ownership signature 2) Cecil Woodham-Smith, author of Queen Victoria, Her Life and Times, 1972, with her book label.

276 SWIFT (Jonathan) The Correspondence. Edited by F.Elrington Ball. Introduction by J.H.Bernard. With plates, 6 vols, orig. maroon cloth. G.Bell, 1910-13     £250.00
Elrington Ball’s classic edition, now very scarce. From the library of Geoffrey Tillotson with his ownership signature in each vol.

277 TOLSTOY (Leo) Tolstoy on Shakespeare. I, Shakespeare and the Drama, by Leo Tolstoy. 2. Shakespeare and the Working Classes, by Ernest H. Crosby. 3. Mr G. Bernard Shaw on Shakespeare. 4. The Press Against Shakespeare. Sm. 8vo, pp.120+8 adverts, orig. wrappers, spine neatly repaired, some browning of the text, a reasonable copy of a fragile production, with ownership signature of H. S. Bennett, Shakespearian. Free Age Press, Christchurch, Hants, 1907     £75.00
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Tolstoy’s attack on Shakespeare. Its chief importance to English readers lies in Orwell’s memorable refutation; ‘of the attempt to demolish [Shakespeare[ nothing remains except the yellowing pages of a pamphlet which hardly anyone has read, and which would be forgotten altogether if Tolstoy had not also been the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina’ – Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool.

278 TRIVICK (Henry H.) The Craft and Design of Monumental Brasses. With 271 illustrations more than half of which are in colour, 4to, pp. 152, orig. buckram gilt with d/w, enclosed in slip-case. 1969     £75.00
The first book to reproduce in any number brasses as they were laid down in gilt and black, as positives not as negatives.

279 TURNER (Charles, 1774-1857) WHITMAN (Alfred) Charles Turner. With 32 photogravure plates, 4to, pp. 300, orig. green cloth, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, spine little chafed. George Bell, Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters, 1907     £75.00
Edition limited to 500 copies; printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.

280 WEBB (Beatrice) The Diary, 1873-1943. Edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie. COMPETE SET. With plates, 4 vols, with d/ws. Harvard U.P, 1982-85     £85.00

281 WEBSTER (John) Complete Works. Edited by F.L.Lucas. ORIGINAL ISSUE. 4 vols, demy 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in half crimson morocco, spines gilt panelled and lettered, gilt tops, fine set. Chatto & Windus, 1927     £650.00

282 WEITZMANN (Kurt) Gaine ALIBEGASVILI, Aneli VOLSKAJA, et al. The Icon. With 385 coloured plates many of which are full page, 4to, pp. 418, buckram, with d/w. Evans Bros., 1982     £85.00
Constantinople; Georgia; Thessalonike, Ohrid and Serbia; The Crusades; Russia; Serbia, Crete and Central Greece; Roumania.

283 WESTON (Jessie L.) From Ritual to Romance. FIRST EDITION. Pp.217, orig. quarter cloth and boards, binding trifle marked as often. C.U.P.,1920     £120.00
‘Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston’s book on the Grail legend ‘From Ritual to Romance.’ Indeed, so deeply am I indebted, Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart from the great interest of the book itself) to any who think such elucidation of the poem worth the trouble’. – T. S. Eliot, Notes on the Waste Land.

284 WHISTLER (James McN.) YOUNG (Andrew McL.), M. MacDONALD and R. SPENCER. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. With 438 illustrations, 132 in colour, 2 vols, 4to, pp.319, with d/ws. Yale U. P. for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 1980     £125.00

285 WILAMOWITZ - MOELLENDORFF (Ulrich von) Reden und Vortrage. Dritte, vermehrte auflage. Pp.424, buckram gilt. Berlin, 1913     £85.00

Enoch Powell’s copy, inscribed to him on title by Paul Maas, the great German scholar whom Powell rescued from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Maas has been cited as ‘a Greek textual scholar of the calibre of Wilamowitz.’

286 WILSON (Carroll A.) Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations. Edited by Jean Wilson and David Randall. 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp.890, orig. cloth, gilt tops. New York, privately printed, 1950     £150.00
Only 375 copies printed at the Authoensen Press, Portland. Alcott, Emerson, Hardy, Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, Thoreau, Trollope, Whittier, Holmes and ‘Familiar Quotations’ in their first printings. ‘A tour, conducted with an affable mastery of the technical equipment, round one of the great collections of our generation’ – from John Carter’s anonymous TLS review, a copy of which is loosely inserted.

287 WOOD (G.Arnold) The Discovery of Australia. FIRST EDITION. With folding map and many illus, pp.557, binding slightly faded, smallstamp on end paper.1922     £75.00

288 WORDSWORTH (William and Dorothy) [Complete Letters]. Arranged and Edited by Ernest de Selincourt. ORIGINAL ISSUE. With facsimiles, 6 vols, orig. maroon cloth gilt. O.U.P., 1935-39