MISCELLANEOUS
ANON: Cats Not by Louis Wain.
London: Duckworth, 1921.
Ninth impression. 8vo, pp.123, original boards with coloured
portraits of suitably haughty young women pasted to upper cover as
issued in dustwrapper; binding bumped at headbands, else good;
dustwrapper very poor with a large creased tear across top of spine,
large piece chipped from bottom of spine and with other creased
tears along the edges (with some loss); internally, page edges
browned, some foxing. Aphorisms on women.
Quote Item No. 5319
Price: £15.00
ANON: Exploits and Wonders.
Fair Oak, Hants.: The Grayhound Press, 1926.
Square 8vo, pp.14, original cloth-backed patterned boards with
printed paper label on upper cover. Number 6 of only 106
copies printed. Some foxing but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 3223
Price: £21.00
ANON: "Fun" on the Sands. A Holiday Book for Everybody. With
Pictures on Every Page, Engraved by Dalziel Brothers.
London: The "Fun" Office (1880).
Humorous wood engravings throughout, mostly full-page. 8vo,
pp.120; disbound.
Quote Item No. 10179
Price: £30.00
CASSELL,
JOHN (Publisher): The Illustrated Exhibitor, A tribute to the
World's Industrial Jubilee; comprising Sketches, by Pen and Pencil,
of the Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of
All Nations, 1851.
London: John Cassell, 1851.
Ten folding plates including the panoramic view of the Crystal
Palace as frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pp.xliv:556, contemporary half
black calf marbled boards. The spine gilt extra with crimson
lettering piece. 4 inch crack to upper joint but firm, extremities
rubbed but not unattractive on the shelf.
Quote Item No. 10616
Price: £180.00
CASSELL & CO. (Publishers): The Storehouse of
General Information. London: Cassell, 1891.
Profusely illustrated including folding coloured plates and maps. 8
volumes bound as 4 (complete), contemporary half tan calf, spines
decorated in blind and gilt, with double lettering pieces. Two
headbands very slightly snagged, a few inner joints cracked but very
firm, foremargins of a few folding plates creased. Generally an
excellent copy of this well illustrated work and attractively and
strongly bound.
Quote Item No. 8682
Price: £48.00
Paris: Gautier et Languereau, n.d. "Copyright 1921 "
on reverse of title.
Coloured illustrations thoughout. 4to, pp.63:(1), original
cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Binding very rubbed
and marked, old ink notes on lower cover, upper inner hinge split,
some light paint marking on reverse of title, generally internally
very good.
Quote Item No. 8081
Price: £25.00
DE
GUERIN, EUGENIE.
TREBUTIEN, G. S (Editor): Lettres
d'Eugenie de Guerin. Sixieme Edition.
Paris: Didier, 1865.
8vo, pp.516, contemporary half vellum, spine gilt extra with
lettering piece; lettering piece a little rubbed, vellum a
little dust marked.
Quote Item No. 9798
Price: £22.00
EROS DER SIEGER: Eros der Sieger. Griechische
Liebesgedichter.
Berlin: Hyperion ca. 1930.
No. 51 of 100 copies on 'Buttenpapier'. Shaped tinted plates,
mounted, with tissue-guards. 8vo, pp.278 publisher's half calf
gilt with label, top edge gilt. Spine rubbed.
Quote Item No. 102
Price: £30.00
GOTHA, ERICH VON: Twenty 1.
London: The Erotic Print Society, 2005.
Coloured erotic strip cartoons throughout. 4to, pp. (64), original
coloured glazed pictorial wrappers. Very good.
Quote Item No. 7755
Price: £30.00
JACOB,
GILES: The Accomplish'd Conveyancer.
Containing Great Variety of Precedents of
Special Grants, Assignments, Mortages and all Sorts of Securities
.... Special Gifts, Grants, .... etc. The Second Edition, corrected;
with Additions. Volume 2 only (of 3).
London: In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot, Law-Printer to
the King's most Excellent Majesty, for Dan. Browne, at the Black
Swan without Temple-Bar; and John Shuckburgh at the Sun, next the
Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street, 1750.
8vo (8 x 5¼
inches), pages
611:(10), contemporary full polished tan calf; contemporary
signature on first leaf, lacking lettering piece. An attractive
crisp copy.
Quote Item No. 11689
Price: £35.00
POTTER,
JOHN PHILIPS: An Essay on the Means of Discovering the Senses of
Words.
Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker and C. & J. Rivington,
1828.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xiii:267, contemporary full tan calf, narrow
gilt rule to sides, spine gilt extra with lettering piece. Some
foxing at end, very short crack to upper joint at headband.
Generally a handsome copy in very good condition. Small neat near
contemporary inscription on front free endpaper
Quote Item No. 10472
Price: £125.00
PUGHE, W. OWEN: A
Dictionary of the Welsh language explained in English: with
numerous illustrations, from the literary remains and from the
living speech of the Cymmry to which is prefixed a Welsh grammar.
Denbigh: Printed and Published by Thomas Gee, 1832.
Second edition. Engraved portrait of the author, engraved
title vignettes. Two volumes large 8vo (9¾ x 6¼ inches) pages: 515 & 687:55
(being: An Outline of the Characteristics of the Welsh, and its
Utility in Connection with other Ancient Languages, for Developing
the Primitive Speech of Mankind, by Pughe. With separate title page,
pagination and signatures.
Denbigh: Thomas Gee, 1832). Contemporary full tan calf,
sides ruled in gilt and blind, spines with crimson lettering pieces
and green numbering pieces, two 2-inch splits to upper joints of
Volume 1, rubbed and scuffed but joints very firm and not
unattractive on the shelf. Title-page of Volume 1 toned
otherwise internally very good and clean.
Quote Item No.
11861
Price: £250.00
UPTON, FLORENCE K. [Illustrator]: Thanksgiving Day
Banquet of the American Society in London. Henry S. Wellcome
in the Chair. R. Newton Crane in the Vice-Chair.
London: Hotel Cecil, November 26th 1896.
A sumptuous menu, wine list, and programme, illustrated from
photographs and in line by Florence Upton. 8vo,
pp.104:32(supplement) padded decorated leather, all edges gilt,
bound by Mansell. Spine and corners rubbed, headband chipped.
Quote Item No. 6118
Price: £20.00