1 contents art and architecture 1-124 british - Francis Edwards

1st Ed. 192pp. F.e.ps. very sl. browned, very good in lightly
rubbed and very sl. chipped d/w. £75.00
Pseudonym of Edwy Searles Brooks.
439. Greenaway, Kate. MARIGOLD GARDEN. Pictures and
Rhymes. Frederick Warne & Co. N.d. c.[1885].
Sm. slim 4to. 56pp. Illus. throughout in colour. Illus. e.ps., sm.
ownership signature, lightly rubbed original cloth backed cold.
pictorial boards, with some sl. wear to corners and along head of
upper board. £125.00
440. (Greenaway). Spielmann, M.H. & Layard, G.S. KATE
GREENAWAY. A & C Black 1905.
1st Ed. xx + 301pp. + [ii]. publ. adverts. 52 cold. plates, 34 full
page b/w. ills., 56 ills. and decorations. Cold. illus. Greenaway
e.ps., upper hinge cracked, some occasional very light spotting,
original gilt lettered dec. cloth, corners sl. bumped and spine
browned, head of spine sl. soiled and bumped with sm. split, t.e.g.
£85.00
Inman 133.
20 Shilling Series.
441. Gunn, Thom. FIGHTING TERMS. Fantasy Press 1954.
1st Issue with ‘though’ for ‘thought’ on line 1 on p.38, original
yellow cloth with red. title to upper board, edges and spine very
sl. soiled. £125.00
442. Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. A History of Adventure.
Longmans, Green & Co. 1887.
1st UK Ed. 1st issue. Sm. 8vo. [viii] + 317pp + [ii] adverts. 2
chromolitho. plates. Some very light browning, upper hinge sl.
sprung, dec. e.ps., original bright gilt lettered bevel edged cloth
with gilt device to upper board and spine, corners sl. rubbed,
spine rubbed with sm. nick to tail. £400.00
First Issue: "geneleman" for "genelman" p.59, line 22, "had" for "have"
p126, line 26, "it compared" for "if compared" p.258, line 37 and
"godness me" p.269, line 38. Unrecorded variant endpapers depicting
multiple images of ‘Diana/Artemis the Huntress’ on one knee
brandishing a large Bow and exposing one breast and with C & CO: LD.
scrolled beneath/above, instead of Longman’s usual ‘Swan and ship’.
Sadleir 1092.
Preceded by the U.S. Harper & Brothers edition which was published 24
December 1886, a week before the British edition published 1 January
1887. First published in ‘The Graphic XXXIV-XXXV October 2nd 1886 -
January 8th 1887, Nos. 879-893.
443. Halkett, Samuel & Laing, John. DICTIONARY OF
ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH
LITERATURE Edited by Dr James Kennedy, W.A. Smith and
A.F. Johnson. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd 1926-62.
New and enlarged Ed. 7 vols. + 2 addenda vols. (Edited by
Dennis E. Rhodes and Anna E.C. Simoni). 9 vols. in all. Large
8vo. Ex.-lib. with occasional ink stamps, original cloth with some
minor rubbing, gilt title to bumped spines with mark to tail where
accession nos. removed, some splash marks, t.e.g. £125.00
444. Hardy, Thomas. THE DYNASTS. A Drama of the
Napoleonic Wars, in three Parts, Nineteen Acts & One Hundred
and Thirty Scenes. Macmillan & Co. 1904-8.
1st Ed. Mixed Issues. 3 vols. Ex.-libris J.W. Hill, e.ps. spotted,
margins lightly browned in vol. 3, some very occasional marginal
spotting, sm. ownership signature scribbled out to front f.e.p. in
vol. 1, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt device to upper boards,
some minor signs of wear, vol. 1 lightly rubbed with some very
faint spotting to spine and sl. bumped to corners. £125.00
Purdy pp.120-135.
445. Hardy, Thomas. WESSEX POEMS And Other Verses.
Harper & Brothers 1898.
38
1st Ed. [xii] + 228pp. 30 ills. by the author. Contemporary
inscription, margins and e.ps. very lightly browned, hinges
cracked, fore-edge of p.57/8 torn with sl. loss not affecting any
text, original gilt lettered dark green cloth with gilt device to
upper board, tail of spine very sl. chipped, t.e.g. £500.00
Thomas Hardy’s Works.
With Author’s signature affixed to tail of title page.
446. Harris, Joel Chandler. NIGHTS WITH UNCLE
REMUS. George Routledge and Sons 1884.
1st UK Ed. [xii] + 300pp. + [viii] adverts. Frontis., vignette t.p.,
20 ills. Margins very lightly browned, ex.-libris Michael Ernest
Sadler and Samuel Hoare, hinges neatly repaired, original gilt
lettered dec. cloth with very sl. wear to corners, some minor
soiling, head of lower joint split, recased spine faded and sl.
chipped at head and tail. £175.00
447. Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS Or Mr Fox, Mr
Rabbit, and Mr Terrapin. George Routledge and Sons 1881.
1st UK Ed. 190pp. + [vi] publ. adverts. Some light foxing,
original wrapps., rebacked with some repairs to wrapps. lacking
in part to extremities. £150.00
Routledge’s American Library.
448. (Herrick). Hazlitt, W. Carew. (Editor). HESPERIDES.
The Poems and other Remains of Robert Herrick. Reeves and
Turner 1890.
2nd Ed., revised. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. lxiv + [iv] + 223pp. + xxvi +
286pp. Frontis. Ex.-libris Reginald K. Morcom, contemporary
prize inscription, prelims. sl. spotted, marbled e.ps. and edges,
blind inner dentelles, gilt filleted edges, full gilt edged prize calf
with gilt emblem to upper boards, gilt filleted raised bands dec.
gilt compartments and leather title labels to sl. rubbed spines.
£75.00
449. Horsley, Henry Sharpe. THE AFFECTIONATE
PARENT’S GIFT, and the Good Child’s Reward; Consisting of a
Series of Poems and Essays, of Natural, Moral and Religious
Subjects; Calculated to lead the tender Minds of Youth in the
early Practice of Virtue and Piety, and thereby promote their
temporal Prosperity and eternal Happiness. To Which is Prefixed,
An Affectionate Address on the Duties and Obligations they owe
to God and their Parents. T. Kelly 1841-38.
2 vols. in one. Thick 12mo. xxviii + 224pp. + 192pp. + [viii]. 112
plates (misplaced), [lacking frontis. and additional engraved t.p.]
Some browning, contemporary gilt rule edged sheep, gilt spine,
rubbed, ‘Emma C.C. Townley’ stamped in gilt to upper board.
£100.00
From the books of Eric Korn: ‘Very scarce and when found, usually
defective (including Osborne copy).
Osborne pp.67 & pp.644. First published in 1827 in two volumes.
450. [Jacolliot, Louis]. UNTRODDEN FIELDS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY: Observations on the Esoteric Manners and
Customs of Semi-Civilised Peoples; Being a Record of Thirty
Years’s Experience in Asia, Africa and America By a French
Army-Surgeon. Paris Librairie des Bibliophiles 1896.
1st Edition in English. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. xii + 240pp. + xvi +
266pp. Some very light marginal browning, dust wrappered
wrapps. sl. soiled and chipped with sl. loss to spines. £150.00
No. 7 of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies for Subscribers only.
Translation of: L'amour aux colonies. Editor's foreword signed: Charles
Carrington. - LC gives as pseudonym: Dr. Jacobus X.
451. [Jefferies, Richard]. THE AMATEUR POACHER. By
the Author of ... Smith, Elder & Co. 1879.
1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [viii] + 240pp. Some light browning, ex.-libris
J.W. Hill, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt device to upper