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169 Antiques and design August 2010
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1 ABBIATICO, Mario. MODERN FIREARM ENGRAVINGS. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 284, with 67 coloured plates and
422 illustrations. [First edition] Italy: Artiche Italiane, 1980. [69558] £120.00
2 ABBOTT, P.E. and TAMPLIN, J.M.A. BRITISH GALLANTRY AWARDS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 359,
illustrated throughout and with 4 colour plates. Guinness Superlatives, 1971. [36632] £35.00
3 ADAM, Stephen. DECORATIVE STAINED GLASS. All colour paperback. Original wrappers. Unpaginated. 40 colour plates woth
accompanying text. [First edition] Academy Editions, 1980. [69394] £15.00
4 ADAMS, Elizabeth & REDSTONE, David. BOW PORCELAIN. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 251, with 16 colour plates,
135 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1981. [69920] £25.00
5 ADAMS, Len and Yvonne. MEISSEN PORTRAIT FIGURES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, illustrated in colour and
monochrome throughout. [First edition] Leicester: Magna Books, 1992. [55773] £30.00
6 AHERN, John H. MINIATURE LANDSCAPE MODELLING. Original cloth, dustwrapper (worn and rather defective in places). Pp. x, 133,
with 56 illustrations. Flyleaves faintly spotted. [First edition] Percival Marshall, 1951. [61963] £15.00
7 AKEHURST, Richard. GAME GUNS AND RIFLES. Percussion to hammerless ejector in Britain. Tall 8vo. Original grey cloth gilt. Pp. xii,
178, with 89 plates and 54 fi gures. [First edition] G.Bell & Sons, 1969. [70800] £20.00
8 —— SPORTING GUNS. Large square 8vo. Original pictorial boards, dustwrapper (spine faded). Pp. 96, with 134 illustrations (many in
colour). Light tape-marks to fl yleaf. Octopus Books, 1972. [32056] £25.00
9 AL SABAH, Altaf Salem Al Ali. KUWAIT TRADITIONS. Creative expressions of a culture. Square 4to. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp.
135, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Kuwait: AlSadu Weaving Cooperative Society, 2001. [57415] £45.00
10 ALDRED, Cyril. JEWELS OF THE PHARAOHS. Egyptian kewellery of the dynastic period. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
256, with 156 plates (100 in colour) and 37 text illustrations. [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1971. [28331] £30.00
11 ALTON, Robert. VIOLIN AND ‘CELLO BUILDING AND REPAIRING. Small 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. (ii), 182, 16, with 82
text illustrations. Near-fi ne. William Reeves, 1969. [70017] £45.00
12 AMEREDES, Harry. THE FANTASTIC BOOK OF CANES, pipes & walking sticks. A sketchbook of original designs for collectors,
woodcarvers and artists. Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 114, illustrated throughout. Revised edition, Lancaster, PA: Fox Chapel Publishing,
1997. [62878] £15.00
13 AMINI, Majid. ORIENTAL RUGS. Care and repair. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated throughout in colour and
monochrome. [First edition] Orbis Publishing, 1981. [34178] £30.00
14 ANDERSON, Margaret. VICTORIAN FAIRINGS AND THEIR VALUES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 126, illustrated throughout.
[First edition] Lyle Publications, 1975. [63039] £20.00
15 ANDREWS, John. BRITISH ANTIQUE FURNITURE. Price guide and reasons for values. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 454,
illustrated throughout, partly in colour. Fifth edition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2006. [66730] £75.00
16 —— THE PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUE FURNITURE. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 445, illustrated throughout. Price revision
lists for 1978 and 1982 loosely inserted. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1969. [34187] £25.00
17 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 290, illustrated throughout, and with colour frontispiece. Price
revision list for 1989 loosely inserted. Second edition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978. [34176] £35.00
18 ARNOLD, Hugh. STAINED GLASS OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp.269 with
50 coloured plates by Lawrence B.Saint. Relevant postcard pasted to front pastedown. A.& C.Black, 1955. [16171] £35.00
19 ASHDOWN, Charles H. (Mrs.) BRITISH COSTUME DURING XIX CENTURIES (civil and ecclesiastical). Small 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. xiii, 376 with 8 coloured plates and numerous illustrations. Thomas Nelson & Sons, no date [1910]. [16793]
£30.00
20 ATKINSON, John A. THE BRITISH DUELLING PISTOL. 4to. Original cloth gilt, corners a little bruised, one small knock. Pp. 108, with 88
plates. [First edition] Arms & Armour Press, 1978. [70784] £25.00
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22 AUCTION CATALOGUE: CATALOGUE D’UNE BELLE COLLECTION DE LIVRES provenant en partie des Bibliothèques de feu Mr.L.M.
de Laat de Kantner, bourgmestre de la ville de Leyde, d’un Docteur en médecine, et d’autres savants dont la vente aura lieu a Leyde du 27
Octobre au 3 Novembre 1894. Original printed wrappers. Pp. 146, detailing 2728 lots of books, and 122 lots of surgical and chemical instruments
etc. Burgersdijk & Niermans, 1894. [18188] £40.00
23 AUSCHER, E.S. A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF FRENCH PORCELAIN. Translated and edited by William Burton. Tall 8vo. Original
two-tone cloth gilt, a little darkened and scratched, recased. Pp. xiv, 200, with 24 coloured plates and 60 illustrations. Faint accession stamp on
back of title, a few marginal blind stamps. [First edition] Cassell & Co., 1905. [22422] £85.00
24 BACKHOUSE, Janet. THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 80, with 70 illustrations (28 in
colour). B.C.A., 1979. [28319] £25.00
25 BAILEY, De Witt, BRITISH MILITARY FLINTLOCK RIFLES 1740-1840. With a remarkable wealth of data about the rifl emen and regiments
that carried these weapons. 4to. Original glazed pictorial boards. Pp. 264, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Lincoln, Rhode Island: Andrew
Mowbray, 2002. [70783] £30.00
26 BAILEY, De Witt and NIE, Douglas A. ENGLISH GUNMAKERS. The Birmingham and provincial gun trade in the 18th and 19th century.
Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 127, with 8 pages of plates and a map. [First edition] Arms and Armour Press, 1978. [70745]
£65.00
27 BAILLIE, G.H. GUIDE TO THE MUSEUM OF THE CLOCKMAKERS’ COMPANY OF LONDON. Original stiff wrappers. Pp. 73, with 15
plates. [First edition, The Company, 1939. [26217] £25.00
28 BAILLIE, G.H., LOYD, H.Alan and WARD, F.A.B. THE PLANETARIUM OF GIOVANNI DE DONDI. A manuscript of 1397 translated by
G.H.Baillie, with additional material from another Dondi manuscript translated by H.Alan Loyd, edited by F.A.B.Ward. Tall 4to. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper (few short edge-tears). Pp. 156, with 180 fi gures on 59 plates. First few leaves a little crinkled. [First edition] Antiquarian
Horological Society, 1974. [47995] £50.00
29 BAILY, James T. and Leslie. A CRAFTS ANTHOLOGY. Original cloth, dustwrapper (edges defective in places). Pp. xii, 172, with
frontispiece,and decorations by A.E.Goodall. [First edition] Cassell, 1953. [62062] £15.00
30 BAINES, Patricia. SPINNING WHEELS. Spinners & spinning. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine rather faded).
Pp. 252, with 100 plates. Batsford, 1977. [65082] £25.00
31 BAKER, John. ENGLISH STAINED GLASS of the medieval period. Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Unpaginated. 83 illustrations (40 in colour)
by Alfred Lammer with accompanying text. [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1978. [69832] £15.00
32 BALDET, Marcel. LEAD SOLDIERS AND FIGURINES. The world in miniature. Foreword by Peter J.Blum. Translated by W.Stanton Russell.
4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather chipped and torn). Pp. 129, illustrated throughout (partly in colour). [First edition] New York: Crown
Publishers, 1961. [68035] £25.00
33 BANFIELD, Edwin. BAROMETERS: stick or cistern tube. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. vii, 246, with 296 illustrations. Trowbridge:
Baros Books, 1996. [69530] £25.00
34 BANISTER, Judith. AN INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH SILVER. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (slightly worn and
chipped). Pp. 287, illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Evans Brothers, 1965. [68492] £25.00
35 BARKER, Nicolas. TREASURES OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 272, with 330 illustrations
(140 in colour). [First edition] The British Library, 1988. [46933] £35.00
36 BARRETT, Franklin A. WORCESTER PORCELAIN. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. xviii, 92, with 8 coloured
plates and 96 monochrome illustrations. Second edition, Faber, 1966. [69907] £30.00
37 BARTHOLD, Kenneth van and BUCKTON, David. THE STORY OF THE PIANO. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little faded).
Pp. 109, illustrated. Prospectus and request for a review loosely inserted. [First edition] BBC, 1975. [69327] £20.00
38 BARTHOLOMEW, Charles. MECHANICAL TOYS. Introduction by Harriet Bridgeman. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (top edge a
little creased, price-clipped). Pp. 156, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] Hamlyn, 1979. [28377] £25.00
39 BARTLETT, G.B. and BENHAM, W.Gurney. MRS.JARLEY’S FAR-FAMED COLLECTION OF WAXWORKS AND STATUARY Small
8vo. Original cloth gilt. In four parts, each paginated separately. Samuel French, no date. [25834] £25.00
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40 BARTLEY, R.F.C. MODELS IN BOTTLES. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a trifl e marked. Pp. (iv), 93, with 8 plates. Flyleaves browned.
A detailed practical work, which covers not just ships, but also windmills, stage coaches and even houses in bottles. [First edition] Percival
Marshall, 1951. [64784] £20.00
41 BASTIEN, Alfred and FRESHWATER, G.J. PRINTING TYPES OF THE WORLD. A comprehensive manual of lettering and typecraft for
the use of printers, advertising experts, signwriters, commercial artists, draughtsmen, engravers, etc. Large 8vo. Original cloth, a little faded. Pp.
x, 212, (ii), with examples throughout. [First edition] Sir Isaac Pitman, 1931. [45271] £45.00
42 BATE, Percy. ENGLISH TABLE GLASS. Batsford’s Collector’s Library series. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, 130, with 67 plates. Batsford, no
date. [43652] £30.00
43 BATTEN, John D. PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARVED OAK REREDOS for the Church of St.John the Evangelist, Reading. 3 large mounted
photographs, 300 x 380mm. overall, together with 3-page typescript detailed description of the work. Unpublished, 1912. [18712]
The reredos was designed by John Batten and carved under his supervision between 1912 and 1913, the two fi gure-panels and lettering
over and under the panels being carved by Norah Bennett.
£30.00
44 BATTERSBY, Martin. THE DECORATIVE TWENTIES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 216, with 210 illustrations
(41 in colour). [First edition] Studio Vista, 1969. [30690] £65.00
45 BATTIE, D. & TURNER, M. THE PRICE GUIDE TO 19th & 20th CENTURY BRITISH PORCELAIN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
507, illustrated throughout. Price revision list for 1978 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1975. [68491]
£30.00
46 —— —— THE PRICE GUIDE TO 19th AND 20th CENTURY BRITISH POTTERY including Staffordshire fi gures and commemorative
wares. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 243, with 620 illustrations, many in colour. [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 1979.
[27425] £40.00
47 BEALER, Alex W. THE ART OF BLACKSMITHING. Original cloth-backed boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. (vi), 438, well illustrated with text
drawings. Revised edition, Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1995. [61351] £20.00
48 BEARD, Geoffrey. CRAFTSMEN AND INTERIOR DECORATION IN ENGLAND 1660-1820. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xxiv, 312,
with 16 colour plates, 145 black and white plates and 13 text fi gures. Second edition, Bloomsbury Books, 1986. [56288] £60.00
49 —— UPHOLSTERERS & INTERIOR FURNISHING IN ENGLAND 1530-1840. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 346, with
376 illustrations (220 in colour). [First edition] Yale University Press, 1997. [55776] £75.00
50 —— THE WORK OF ROBERT ADAM. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 244, with 60 plates, many in colour. [First
edition] John Bartholomew, 1978. [19615] £40.00
51 BEAUMONT, Roberts. CARPETS AND RUGS. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather stained). Pp. xvi, 410 with 14 coloured
plates, and numerous monochrome illustrations. Heavy stamp of Michael Moorcroft (author) on fl yleaf. [First edition] Scott, Greenwood & Son,
1924. [16849] £45.00
52 BEDFORD, John. BRISTOL AND OTHER COLOURED GLASS. Collectors’ Pieces 2. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 64,
illustrated throughout. [First edition] Cassell, 1964. [26165] £25.00
53 —— LOOKING IN JUNK SHOPS. Together with MORE LOOKING IN JUNK SHOPS. 2 volumes 12mo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrappers.
Pp. 254; 252, illustrated with drawings throughout. Inscriptions on fl yleaves, edges a little spotted. [First edition], second edition, Max Parrish,
1961-64. [64377] £30.00
54 BELL, Malcolm. OLD PEWTER. Original cloth gilt, spine a trifl e darkened. Pp. xxii, 186, top edges gilt, with 106 plates. Fore-edge slightly
spotted. [First edition] Newnes, no date [1906]. [23997] £30.00
55 BELL, R.C. TYNESIDE POTTERY. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 151, illustrated throughout (8 pages in colour). [First
edition] Studio Vista, 1971. [68520] £45.00
56 —— & GILL, M.A.V. THE POTTERIES OF TYNESIDE. Original wrappers, few slight marks. Pp. 40, illustrated. [First edition] Newcastle
upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1973. [68308] £15.00
57 BENHAM, W.Gurney. PLAYING CARDS. History of the pack and explanations of its many secrets. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, very worn
and marked, label to foot of spine. Pp. vii, 195, with 242 illustrations, many in colour. Ex-library, with usual labels and stamps, but a sound clean
copy otherwise internally. [First edition] Ward Lock & Co., 1931. [59356] £30.00
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58 BENNETT, Stuart. HOW TO BUY PHOTOGRAPHS. Christie’s Collectors Guides series. Small square 4to. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp.
160, illustrated throughout (some plates tinted). Oxford: Phaidon & Christie’s, 1987. [68886] £30.00
59 BENSON, James W. TIME AND TIME-TELLERS. Original cloth gilt extra a little darkened. Pp. vii, 190, with 69 illustrations of clocks and
watches. Uncommon title by a well known watch and clock-maker of London. Robert Hardwicke, 1875. [51975] £95.00
60 BERESINER, Yasha. BRITISH COUNTY MAPS. Reference and price guide. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 295, illustrated
throughout, and with 41 colour plates. [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 1983. [69948] £85.00
61 —— A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO PAPER MONEY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 255, with 8 pages in colour and monochrome
illustrations throughout. [First US edition] New York: Stein and Day, 1977. [35089] £40.00
62 BERNASCONI, J.R. THE COLLECTOR’S GLOSSARY OF ANTIQUES AND FINE ARTS. Foreword by F.Clare Hawkes. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (worn, chipped and taped). Pp. xvi, 559, illustrated. Tape marks to endpapers. [First edition] The Estates Gazette, 1959. [68864]
£25.00
63 BERTHOUD, Michael. AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH CUPS. Tall 4to. Original pictorial boards, edges a little rubbed. Pp. xii, 155, with
906 plates. [First edition] Wingham: Micawber Publications, 1982. [69896] £30.00
64 —— A COMPENDIUM OF BRITISH CUPS. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn and chipped). Pp. xix, 256, with 24
coloured and 1500 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] Bridgnorth: Micawber Publications, 1990. [54410] £50.00
65 —— H.& R.DANIEL 1822-1846. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (head of spine defective). Pp. 159, with 8 pages of colour plates
and 140 illustrations. [First edition] Wingham: Micawber Publications, 1980. [69917] £45.00
66 BERTRAM, Jerome. LOST BRASSES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 196 with 4 pages of plates and 30 text fi gures. [First edition]
David & Charles, 1976. [16829] £15.00
67 BETTS, Jonathan (introduction). PRINCIPLES AND EXPLANATION OF TIMEKEEPERS BY HARRISON, ARNOLD AND EARNSHAW.
A British Horological Institute reprint celebrating its 125th anniversary year. 4to. Original cloth-backed marbled boards gilt, glassine dustwrapper.
Pp. (xxviii) with 7 illustrations, plus facsimiles of three works with folding plates etc. The Institute, 1984. [56344] £140.00
68 BLACK, David (editor). THE ATLAS OF RUGS & CARPETS. A comprehensive guide for the buyer and collector. 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 255, illustrated in colour throughout. Tiger Books, 1994. [61344] £30.00
69 BLACKER, J.F. THE ABC OF COLLECTING OLD ENGLISH POTTERY. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Pp.344 with over 450 illustrations.
Fourth edition, Stanely Paul & Co., no date. [16459] £35.00
70 —— THE ABC OF COLLECTING OLD ENGLISH CHINA. Original pictorial cloth, a little dulled. Pp. 142, uncut, illustrated in the text.
[First edition] The London Opinion Curio Club, 1908. [34166] £35.00
71 —— THE ABC OF JAPANESE ART. Original cloth. Pp. 460, well illustrated. Cheap edition, Stanley Paul & Co., 1929. [16794] £20.00
72 BLACKMORE, Howard L. GUNS AND RIFLES OF THE WORLD. 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 134, with 869 illustrations.
A little tape on half-title. Chancellor Press, 1965. [31470] £40.00
73 BLAKEMORE, Kenneth. THE RETAIL JEWELLER’S GUIDE. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 323, illustrated. Third edition, Butterworths,
1980. [68857] £35.00
74 —— SNUFF BOXES. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 176, with 11 colour plates and 48 black and white illustrations. A fi ne
copy. [First edition] Frederick Muller, 1976. [49225] £65.00
75 BOBROW, Jill and JINKINS, Dana. CLASSIC YACHT INTERIORS. Square large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xi, 179,
illustrated in colour throughout. Second UK edition, Concepts Publishing, 1983. [31961] £65.00
76 BODE, Wilhelm. FLORENTINE SCULPTORS OF THE RENAISSANCE. Translated by Jessie Haynes, revised by F.L.Rudston Brown.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp.xii, 258, with photogravure frontispiece and 104 plates. Strong woodcut bookplate of Marjorie Parkin. Second
edition, Methuen, 1928. [52224] £35.00
77 BONEY, Knowles. LIVERPOOL PORCELAIN of the eighteenth century and its makers. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 223,
with 5 plates and a map, and 50 illustrations. Portman Press, 1989. [69923] £35.00
78 BONYNGE, Richard. A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO THEATRICAL POSTCARDS. Large 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 117,
with 107 illustrations in colour, 102 in duotone. [First edition] Batsford, 1988. [69087]
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£25.00

79 BOON, George C. WELSH INDUSTRIAL TOKENS AND MEDALS. Sideluights on 18th and 19th century industrial development. Oblong
8vo. Original wrappers. Unpaginated. 30 plates with accompanying text. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1973. [65692] £15.00
80 BOOTHROYD, Geoffrey. THE HANDGUN. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper. Pp. (viii), 564, (xii), illustrated throughout. New
York: Bonanza Books, 1970. [70734] £30.00
81 BOOTHROYD, Geoffrey and Susan M. BOOTHROYD’S DIRECTORY OF BRITISH GUNMAKERS. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 419,
illustrated. Very scarce. [First edition] Amity, Or.: Sand Lake Press, 1994. [70844] £120.00
82 [BORER, Emile]. MODERN WATCH REPAIRING AND ADJUSTING by a Swiss expert. Additional chapters by T.R.Robinson. Original red
boards, edges rather rubbed and darkened Pp.xiii, 118, with 123 text illustrations. NAG Press, [1933]. [69534] £20.00
83 BOSTON, Noel (Canon) and LANGWILL, lyndesay G. CHURCH AND CHAMBER BARREL-ORGANS. Their origin, makers, music and
location. A chapter in English church music. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. viii, 120, with 28 plates. [First edition
(1000 copies)] Edinburgh: Lyndesay G.Langwill, 1967/ [48822] £40.00
84 BOUQUET, A.C. CHURCH BRASSES British & continental, with some notes on incised stone slabs and indents. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(rather worn and defective). Pp. xii, 284 with coloured frontispiece and 129 illustrations. [First edition] Batsford, 1956. [16831] £18.00
85 BOWES, James L. NOTES ON SHIPPO. A sequel to Japanese enamels. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, rather soiled and a little
scraped, edges slightly worn. Pp.xii, 109, (i), with a laid-in chromolithograph, 7 plates, and text illustrations and marks. Presentation copy,
inscribed on the fl yleaf “University Club, with the Writer’s Compliments”. Scarce. Liverpool: Privately printed, 1895. [30422] £140.00
86 BRACKETT, Oliver. ENGLISH FURNITURE ILLUSTRATED. A pictorial review of English furniture from Chaucer to Queen Victoria.
Revised and edited by H.Clifford Smith. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 300, with 240 plates. A fi ne copy. Revised edition, Ernest
Benn, 1950. [19424] £85.00
87 BRADBURY, Frederick. HISTORY OF OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE. Being an account of the Origin, Growth, and Decay of the Industry and of
the Antique Silver and White or Britannia Metal trade, with chronological lists of makers’ marks and numerous illustrations of specimens. 4to.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper, creased tear to upper board. Pp. (xiii), with frontispiece and numerous illustrations. An excellent reprint, on
similar stock to the original edition. Sheffi eld: J.W.Northend, 1983. [40843] £140.00
88 BRADLEY, H.G. (editor). CERAMICS OF DERBYSHIRE 1750-1975. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 338, (xi), with 16
coloured plates and 470 illustrations. [First edition] Gilbert Bradley, 1978. [18833] £60.00
89 BRADSHAW, Peter. 18th CENTURY ENGLISH PORCELAIN FIGURES 1745-1795. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 327, with 26
colour plates and 177 black and white illustrations. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1981. [34175] £40.00
90 BRANYAN, Lawrence, FRENCH, Neal & SANDON, John. WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 1751-1790. Large 8vo.
Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 367, with 400 illustrations, 125 tone drawings and 150 border designs. Scarce. [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins,
1981. [69904] £180.00
91 BRIDGEMAN, Harriet and DRURY, Elizabeth (compilers). BESIDE THE SEASIDE. A picture postcard album. Large square 8vo. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 144, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Elm Tree Books, 1977. [65422] £15.00
92 BRINKER, Helmut & LUTZ, Albert. CHINESE CLOISONNÉ. The Pierre Uldry collection. Translated from the German by Susanna
Swoboda. Small square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 144, plus 381 illustrations (many in colour), 12 pages of decorative motifs, and
a bibliography. [First trade edition] Bamboo Publishing, 1989. [70658] £140.00
93 BRITISH NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. THE BRITISH NUMISMATIC JOURNAL and Proceedings of the Society. Vols. 1-8 First series. 8 vols,
large thick 8vo. Original two-tone cloth gilt, rather soiled. Top edges gilt, uncut. Numerous plates and text illustrations. A few marginal blind
stamps, a little dusty in places, but a very good run. 8 volumes: printed for the Society by Harrison & Sons, 1905-12. [21983] £275.00
94 BRITTEN, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES & THEIR MAKERS. Being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of
clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad. To which is added a list of nearly ten thousand makers. Thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
spine a little rubbed. Pp. viii, 735, 24, with 700 illustrations. Endpapers renewed. Fifth edition, Batsford, 1904. [47894] £85.00
95 —— —— another edition. To which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers. Thick 8vo. Original black cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 822,
with 859 illustrations. Relevant press cuttings loosely inserted. Fifth edition, E.& F.N.Spon, 1922. [46320] £95.00
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96 —— —— another edition. A history of styles in clocks and watches and their mechanisms. Ninth edition revised and enlarged by Cecil
Clutton with a list of 25,000 makers revised and extended to 1875. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather worn). Pp. xxi, 700, with 388
illustrations, including 40 in colour, endpapers by L.H.Cresswell and line drawings by F.Janca. Mtethuen & E. & F.N.Spon, 1982. [69536]
£45.00
97 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (creased). Pp. xxi, 700, with 388 illustrations, including 40 in colour,
endpapers by L.H.Cresswell and line drawings by F.Janca. Bloomsbury Books, 1986. [25803] £65.00
98 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. xxi, 700, with 388 illustrations, including 40 in
colour, endpapers by L.H.Cresswell and line drawings by F.Janca. Bloomsbury Books, 1990. [58580] £65.00
99 —— THE WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS’ HANDBOOK, dictionary and guide. Revised by J.W.Player. Original brown cloth gilt. Pp. 496,
illustrated. Drawings and sketches on the endpapers, joints cracked. Eleventh edition, E. & F.N.Spon, 1907 [69486] £25.00
100 —— —— another edition. 14th edition, revised by J.W.Player. Thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine a trifl e worn. Pp.vi, 547, illustrated.
Fourteenth edition, E. & F.N.Spon, 1938. [40286] £35.00
101 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 499, with 400 illustrations. Facsimile of 11th edition, Antique Collectors
Club, 1976. [69515] £25.00
102 —— —— another edition. Revised by Richard Good. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 460, (v), with over 700 line
illustrations by John W.Wood. Sixteenth edition reprinted, Bloomsbury Books, 1989. [58579] £45.00
103 BRITTEN, F.W. HOROLOGICAL HINTS AND HELPS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 376, with 158 text illustrations. Antique
Collectors Club, 1987. [69514] £15.00
104 BROWN, C.W. SALT DISHES. Illustrations and descriptions of 1359 different salt dishes from the collection of C.W.Brown. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. 148, with 75 plates. [First edition] Leion, Iowa: Mid-American Book Co., 1968. [26444] £45.00
105 BROWN, G.Baldwin. THE ARTS IN EARLY ENGLAND. The life of Saxon England in its relation to the arts; ecclesiastical architecture in
England from the conversion of the Saxons to the Norman conquest. 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, spines rather rubbed. Pp. xiv, 388; xviii, 351,
with over 200 illustrations, maps, tables etc. Joints of volume 2 cracked, endpapers rather spotted. [First edition] John Murray, 1903. [40372]
£75.00
106 BROWN, R.A. HORSE BRASSES. Their history and origin (the symbolic reasons for many of the designs). Small 8vo. Original glazed
pictorial boards. Pp. 88, illustrated throughout. Privately published, 1963. [69123] £30.00
107 BRUTON, Eric. ANTIQUE CLOCKS AND CLOCK COLLECTING. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper price-clipped, few short edgetears).
Pp. 96, with 95 illustrations (30 in colour). Hamlyn, 1974. [47997] £25.00
108 BUCHNER, Alexander (Dr.) MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Translated by Iris Urwin. Large 4to. Original black cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 110 with 67 text illustrations, plus 174 plates (some in colour). [First edition] Batchworth Press, no date [c.1959]. [53148]
£65.00
109 BUCK, Anne M. VICTORIAN COSTUME and costume accessories. Foreword by Hugh Wakefi eld. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine
faded). Pp. 215, with 51 plates and 29 line illustrations. [First edition] Herbert Jenkins, 1961. [65079] £25.00
110 BURCH, R.M. COLOUR PRINTING AND COLOUR PRINTERS. With a chapter on modern processes by W.Gamble. Introduction by
Ruari McLean. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxii, 281, with 8 illustrations. Second edition, Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983.
[45390] £35.00
111 BURGESS, F. W. ANTIQUE JEWELLERY AND TRINKETS. Home Connoisseur series. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, 399 with 142 illustrations.
Routledge, 1919. [16954] £30.00
112 —— ANTIQUE JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn and torn, spine faded). Pp. xii, 399
with 142 illustrations. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., no date [1919]. [19459] £30.00
113 —— CHATS ON HOUSEHOLD CURIOS. Original cloth. Pp. 360, with 94 illustrations. A few spots and marks, name erased from fl yleaf.
[First edition] T.Fisher Unwin, 1914. [22214] £30.00
114 —— CHATS ON OLD COPPER AND BRASS. Original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded. Pp. 400, with 91 illustrations. [First edition]
T.Fisher Unwin, 1914. [18415] £25.00
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115 BURLAND, C.A. MAGIC BOOKS FROM MEXICO. With an introduction and notes on the plates. King Penguin series No. 64. Small 8vo.
Original pictorial boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 31, plus 16 pages of plates. [First edition] Penguin Books, 1953. [20209] £65.00
116 BURNS, Hilary. CANE, RUSH AND WILLOW. Weaving with matural materials. 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 144, illustrated in
colour throughout. [First edition] Quintet Publishing, 1998. [64808] £25.00
117 BUSBY, Richard J. A COMPANION GUIDE TO BRASSES & BRASS RUBBING. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 264 with 16 plates.
[First edition] Pelham Books, 1973. [16828] £15.00
118 BUTEN, David, and CLANEY, Jane Perkins. 18TH-CENTURY WEDGWOOD. A guide for collectors & connoisseurs. With contributions
by Patricia Pelehach. Small 4to. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 192, with 20 coloured plates and 198 illustrations. [First edition]
New York: Methuen, 1980. [18157] £40.00
119 BUTTERFIELD, Lindsay P. FLORAL FORMS IN HISTORIC DESIGN. Mainly from objects in the Victoria & Albert Museum but including
examples from designs by William Morris and C.F.A.Voysey.. With preface and descriptive notes by W.G.Paulson Townsend. Folio. Original
folder in cloth-backed printed boards with linen tie, a little dusty, scrape to lower board. Complete with 18 plates printed in grey and black on
card, loose as issued, with text and descriptions on the pastedowns of the folder. Some edges a little creased or chipped, a little light fi ngering in
places, but a good set. Scarce. [First edition] Batsford, no date [1922]. [25092] £120.00
120 CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur. WISH YOU WERE HERE. The art of Donald McGill. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a tear repaired on
the reverse). Pp. 127, with 50 full-page colour plates and other illustrations. [First edition] Hutchinson, 1966. [70435] £25.00
121 CANDEE, Helen Churchill. THE TAPESTRY BOOK. Large 8vo. Original cloth, spine a little mottled. Pp. xvi, 275, with 103 plates, 4 in
colour. A little occasional faint spotting. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1935. [17958] £30.00
122 CAREY, A.Merwyn. ENGLISH, IRISH AND SCOTTISH FIREARMS MAKERS. When, where and what they made, from the middle of
the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Original red cloth gilt, surface a little damped, dustwrapper (extremities worn and
chipped). Pp. xv, 121, with 11 illustrations. Second British edition, Arms & Armour Press, 1967. [70725] £35.00
123 CASTLE, Egerton. ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. An illustrated handbook for students of ex-libris. Modern quarter calf gilt. Pp. xiii, 249, (ii),
with illustrations throughout (some in red and black). A few library stamps, some edges a little dusty. [Limited large paper edition on Japanese
vellum (95 only, this an un-numbered copy)] George Bell and Sons, 1894. [17345] £75.00
124 CASTLE, Peter. COLLECTING AND VALUING OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 176, illustrated throughout. [First
edition] Garnstone Press, 1973. [69051] £20.00
125 CAULFIELD, S.F.A. & SAWARD, Blanche C. THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. An encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy
needlework. Dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical
terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. 6 volumes, 4to. Original decorated red cloth gilt,
lower corners a little faded. All edges gilt. Complete with 159 full-page engravings, including 22 coloured plates, and over 800 text woodcuts.
A very good set. Second edition, A.W.Cowan, no date [c.1885]. [27989] £250.00
126 CESCINSKY, Herbert. THE OLD-WORLD HOUSE. Its furniture and decoration. 2 volumes, large 8vo. Original quarter crimson morocco
gilt. Pp. xii, 307; iv, 371, top edges, illustrated throughout with photographs, mainly of furniture. A very attractive set. [First edition] A.&
C.Black, 1924. [49132] £180.00
127 —— and HUNTER, George Leland. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN FURNITURE. A pictorial handbook of fi ne furniture made in Great
Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. 311, illustrated throughout. Flyleaves rather spotted. New York: Garden City
Publishing Co., 1929. [23112] £65.00
128 —— and WEBSTER, Malcolm R. ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 354, with
407 illustrations. A fi ne copy. Chancery House Publishing, 1976. [58578] £40.00
129 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 354, with 407 illustrations. A fi ne copy. New York: Bonanza Books,
1968. [34143] £40.00
130 CHAFFERS, William. HALL MARKS ON GOLD AND SILVER PLATE, illustrated with revised tables of annual date letters employed in
the Assay Offi ces of England, Scotland and Ireland ... to which is now added a history of l’Orfévriere Française. ... Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt
over bevelled boards. Pp. xiii, 302, top edges gilt, with an extending frontispiece. A very nice clean and sound copy. Seventh edition, Reeves and
Turner, 1891. [42718] £50.00
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131 —— MARKS AND MONOGRAMS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, of the renaissance and modern periods, with historical notices
of each manufactory; preceded by an introductory essay on the Vasa Fictilla of England, of the Romano-British and Medieval eras. Large, thick
8vo. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards, extremities a little worn.. Pp. viii, 778, (vi), top edges gilt, with 2200 illustrations of potters’ marks
etc.. A few spots. Third edition, Bickers & Son, 1872. [19326] £40.00
132 —— —— another edition. Over 3500 potters’ marks and illustrations. With increased number of potters’ marks & additional supplement
(1908) by Frederick Litchfi eld. Thick large 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth gilt, extremities a trifl e rubbed. Pp. xx, 996, (viii), top edges gilt,
illustrated throughout with facsimiles of marks. Twelfth edition, Reeves and Turner, 1908. [40325] £45.00
133 —— MARKS & MONOGRAMS ON EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. with historical notices of each
manufactory and 3500 potters’ marks and illustrations. Augmented by nearly 500 potters’ marks & additional supplement by Frederick Litchfi eld.
Thick large 8vo. Original decorated cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. xix, 979, top edges gilt, illustrated throughout with facsimiles of marks.
Label removed from pastedown, with a little surface damage to the opposing fl yleaf. Eighth edition, Gibbings and Co for Reeves and Turner,
1897. [51224] £45.00
134 —— —— another edition. 2 volumes, original cloth gilt. Pp. vii, 636; vii, 443, with 2 coloured frontispieces and illustrations of marks
in the text throughout. Edges a trifl e soiled. Fifteenth revised edition, William Reeves, 1974. [25816] £85.00
135 —— and CUNDALL, H.M. THE NEW KERAMIC GALLERY containing seven hundred illustrations of rare, curious and choice examples
of pottery and porcelain from early times to the beginning of the twentieth century & including 8 full-page plates in colours, with descriptive
letterpress and historical notes. Third edition, enlarged by over 100 additional illustrations, with descriptions as well as extra full-page plates in
colours and numerous marks, the whole work being revised and edited. 2 volumes, original decorated cloth gilt extra, dustwrappers. Pp. x, 694,
uncut, with 8 coloured plates and 690 illustrations. Name-stamp at foot of some preliminary leaves, otherwise a fi ne set. Third edition, Reeves &
Turner, 1926. [23204] £95.00
136 CHANNER C.C. and ROBERTS, M.E. LACE-MAKING IN THE MIDLANDS past and present. Original red cloth gilt, rather darkened. Pp.
(iv), 80, 31, with 17 illustrations. [First edition] Methuen, 1900. [52764] £65.00
137 CHAPEL, C.E. GUN CARE AND REPAIR. A manual of gunsmithing. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, 454, with 45 plates. [First edition] New
York: Coward-McCann, 1943. [23136] £35.00
[Riling: 2435].
138 CHARBONNEAUX, Jean (preface). LES MERVEILLES DU LOUVRE. Tome premier. Collection Réalités. Folio. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 352, illustrated throughout with numerous tipped-in colour plates and monochrome illustrations. Text in French. [First edition]
Paris: Hachette, 1958. [28296] £35.00
139 CHARNWOOD, Lady. AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION and the making of it. Original half cloth glt with marbled boards. Pp. 292, with 8
plates. Label removed from rear pastedown. [First edition] Ernest Benn, 1930. [68575] £30.00
140 CHIPPENDALE, John. THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKER’S DIRECTOR. The Third edition [1762]. The Scopas series of
Tiranti’s reprints. Small folio. Original cloth-backed printed boards. 50 plates. John Tiranti, 1939. [31841] £75.00
141 CHRISTIE, Mrs.Archibald. SAMPLERS AND STITCHES. A handbook of the embroider’s art. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. Pp. xiv,
142, with coloured frontispiece, 33 plates and 239 text illustrations. [First edition] Batsford, 1920. [54376] £65.00
142 —— —— another edition. Original cloth, dustwrapper (top edges a little chipped). Pp. viii, 152, with coloured frontispiece, 37 plates
and 243 text illustrations. Fourth edition, Batsford, 1948. [61666] £30.00
143 CHRISTIE’S REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1964-65. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, edges rather faded, dustwrapper (a little chipped and stained).
Pp. 240, illustrated throughout (partly in colour). Christie’s, 1965. [52095] £15.00
144 —— REVIEW OF THE SEASON 1974. Edited by John Herbert. Small square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (few chips). Pp. 512,
illustrated throughout (partly in colour). Hutchinson, 1974. [52096]
We can also supply issues for the years 1981-85 and 1987 at the same price.
£20.00
145 CHRISTY, Miller. THE BRYANT AND MAY MUSEUM OF FIRE-MAKING APPLIANCES. Catalogue of the exhibits, with an introduction
and notes. Together with supplement. 2 volumes, original cloth-backed orange card wrappers gilt and stiff wrappers. Pp. viii, 256; viii, 257-331,
with 429 illustrations. Bryant & May, 1926-28 [23757] £150.00
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146 CLARK, Hartley. BOKHARA, TURKOMAN AND AFGHAN RUGS. 4to. Original cloth, lettering a little rubbed, head of spine rather
rucked. Pp. xxvi, 130, (ii), with 17 colour plates, 8 monotone plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Sometime re-sewn and joints
strengthened, an extra fl yleaf (browned) with some mss. notes, inserted. A very good copy. Scarce. [First edition] John Lane The Bodley Head,
1922. [34344] £325.00
147 CLARK, John E.T. MUSICAL BOXES. A history and an appreciation. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little worn). Pp. 236,
illustrated. Top edge of fl yleaf a little dusty. Second edition, Fountain Press, 1952. [53154] £30.00
148 CLARK, Kenneth (Introduction). THE FLORENCE BAPTISTRY DOORS. Photographs by David Finn, commentary by George Robinson.
4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 328, with 321 illustrations (42 in colour). [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1980. [28324] £50.00
149 CLARKE, John D. GALLANTRY MEDALS & AWARDS OF THE WORLD. From the Crimean to the Falklands and Gulf Wars. Foreword
by Sir Fitzroy Maclean. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 248, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Patrick Stephens, 1993. [36621] £25.00
150 CLAYTON, Muriel. CATALOGUE OF RUBBINGS OF BRASSES AND INCISED SLABS. Classifi ed and arranged in chronological order.
Small 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiv, 250, with 72 plates. Victoria & Albert Museum, 1929. [32279] £60.00
151 CLIFTON, Gloria. DIRECTORY OF BRITISH SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT MAKERS 1550-1851. Square 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. xviii, 331, illustrated. Zwemmer, 1996. [53102] £85.00
152 CLINCH, George. ENGLISH COSTUME from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century. “The Antiquary’s Books” series. Original
red cloth gilt, spine a trifl e faded. Pp. xxii, 296, 44 (advertisements), with 131 illustrations. [First edition] Methuen, 1909. [20976] £55.00
153 CLINE, Walter M. THE MUZZLE-LOADING RIFLE then and now. Large 8vo. Original cloth. Pp. 162, illustrated throughout. [First edition]
West Virginia: Standard Printing and Publishing Co., 1942. [17317]
[Riling: 2405].
£85.00
154 CLINTON, Alan. PRINTED EPHEMERA. Collection, organisation and access. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 125. [First edition] Clive
Bingley, 1981. [17012] £20.00
155 CLOAK, Evelyn Campbell. GLASS PAPERWEIGHTS. Introduction by Helen McKearin. 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 196, with 700
paperweights reproduced in colour. [First UK edition] Studio Vista, 1969. [36247] £45.00
156 CLOUSTON, K.Warren. THE CHIPPENDALE PERIOD IN ENGLISH FURNITURE. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvi, 224, top edges gilt,
with 200 illustrations from drawings by the author. [First edition] Debenham & Freebody and Edward Arnold, 1897. [42699] £40.00
157 CLUTTON, Cecil. COLLECTOR’S COLLECTION. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, with 76 illustrations. [First edition]
Antiquarian Horological Society, 1974. [47890] £35.00
158 COCKS, Anna Somers and TRUMAN, Charles. RENAISSANCE JEWELS, GOLD BOXES AND OBJETS DE VERTU. The Thyssen-
Bornemisza Collection, general editor Simon de Pury. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (short . Pp. 384, with 139 coloured plates and
numerous black and white illustrations. [First edition] Sotheby, 1984. [23087] £65.00
159 COKE, Gerald. IN SEARCH OF JAMES GILES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiii, 257, with 24 colour plates and 72 monochrome
plates.. [First edition] Broseley: Micawber Publications, 1983. [69916] £75.00
160 COLBY, Averil. PATCHWORK. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 201, with 215 illustrations and plates. Cookery Book Club,
1973. [69868] £20.00
161 COLLINGWOOD, Peter. THE MAKER’S HAND. A close look at textile structures. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, illustrated
throughout, nmostly in colour. Signed by the author on the title. Revised edition, Bellew Publishing, 1998. [65073] £65.00
162 —— RUG WEAVING TECHNIQUES. Beyond the basics. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, illustrated throughout, mostly in
colour. Signed by the author on the title. [First edition] Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press, 1990. [65072] £95.00
163 COLLINS, A.F. BOOK CRAFTS FOR JUNIORS. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 190, (ii), with 14 plates. Front fl yleaf removed. [First
edition] Leicester: Dryad Press, 1967. [46972] £20.00
164 COLSON, Percy. A STORY OF CHRISTIE’S. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (lower panel defective). Pp. xiv, 192, with 32 plates. [First
edition] Sampson Low, 1950. [19482] £20.00
165 COMINO, Mary. GIMSON AND THE BARNSLEYS. ‘Wonderful furniture of a commonplace kind.’ Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 224, with 166 illustrations. [First edition] Evans Brothers, 1980. [38042] £40.00
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166 CONRAN, Elizabeth and others. THE BOWES MUSEUM. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, illustrated in colour throughout.
[First edition] Scala Books, 1992. [61486] £15.00
167 CONRAN, Terence. THE BED AND BATH BOOK. Square 4to. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper. Pp. 360, illustrated
in colour throughout. [First edition[ Mitchell Beazley, 1978. [64527] £30.00
168 COOK, B.F. GREEK AND ROMAN ART in the British Museum. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 196, with colour frontispiece and 150
plates. British Museum, 1976. [28014] £20.00
169 COOK, Cyril. THE LIFE AND WORK OF ROBERT HANCOCK. An account of the life of the 18th-century engraver and of his designs on
Battersea and Staffordshire enamels and Bow and Worcester porcelain. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. xvi, 88, plus 120 plates
(each with a page of text). Scarce. [First edition] Chapman and Hall, 1948. [32853] £150.00
170 COOK, Olive. MOVEMENT IN TWO DIMENSIONS. A study of the animated and projected pictures which preceded the invention of
cinematography. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little torn). Pp. 143, with 25 illustrations. Scarce. [First edition] Hutchinson,
1963. [45421] £85.00
171 COOPER, Jeremy. NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANTIC BRONZES. French, English and American Bronzes 1830-1915. 4to. Original
cloth gilt, corners rather bumped, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, with 161 illustrations, some in colour. [First edition] David and Charles, 1975.
[23089] £30.00
172 COPE, Dawn and Peter. ILLUSTRATORS OF POSTCARDS FROM THE NURSERY. Square 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 64, with 32 colour
plates of postcards and 19 black and white illustrations of their illustrators. [First edition] East West Publications, 1978. [68930] £25.00
173 COPELAND, Robert. SPODE’S WILLOW PATTERN & other designs after the Chinese. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 182,
illustrated throughout (4 pages in colour). [First edition] Studio Vista/Christies, 1980. [69929] £25.00
174 COUSINS, Frank W. SUNDIALS. A simplifi ed approach by means of the equatorial dial. Foreword by J.G.Porter. Original boards gilt,
dustwrapper ( rather worn). Pp. 247, with 166 plates and illustrations (3 folding). Ex-library, the front fl yleaf removed and stamps on the halftitle
and title. [First edition] John Baker, 1969. [69524] £65.00
175 COWEN, Painton. ROSE WINDOWS. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 144, with 141 illustrations (59 in colour). Thames & Hudson, 1992.
[69833] £20.00
176 COWLES, Virginia. THE ROTHSCHILDS. A family of fortune. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, rather water-stained, dustwrapper. Pp. 304,
illustrated throughout (partly in colour). [First edition] Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. [65140] £15.00
177 COX, Alwyn & Angela. ROCKINGHAM POTTERY & PORCELAIN 1745-1842. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 262, with 10
colour plates, 149 illustrations, numerous examples of marks and a map. Inscribed by both authors on the half-title. [First edition] Faber, 1983.
[69911] £35.00
178 COX, Christabel Russell. CUT PAPER WORK. Large 8vo. Original pictorial boards. Pp. 62, with 20 plates (6 in colour). Pinhole in last few
leaves. Leicester: Dryad Press, 1958. [41657] £20.00
179 COX, Warren E. THE BOOK OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Large thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (very worn and defective).
Pp. 1158, with 3000 illustrations. Thirteenth edition, New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. [26369] £40.00
180 COYSH, A.W. BLUE-PRINTED EARTHENWARE 1800-1850. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 112, with 155
illustrations. [First edition] Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. [70661] £35.00
181 —— and HENRYWOOD, R.K. THE DICTIONARY OF BLUE AND WHITE PRINTED POTTERY 1780-1880. Volume II (additional
entries and supplementary information). 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 239, with 450 illustrations (28 in colour). Antique Collectors’
Club, 1994. [55769] £40.00
182 CRIPPS, Wilfred Joseph. OLD ENGLISH PLATE. Ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic: its makers and marks. Original cloth gilt, spine a
little frayed at head and foot. Pp. xvi, 477, with 123 illustrations and over 2600 facsimiles of marks. Sixth edition, John Murray, 1899. [42566]
£25.00
183 —— —— another edition. Large 8vo. Original half vellum gilt, slightly spotted. Pp. xx, 519 with 122 text woodcuts. The best edition.
[Library edition] John Murray, 1901. [21580] £75.00
184 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xxiv, 524, with 131 illustrations and over 2600 facsimiles of marks. Ninth edition,
John Murray, 1906. [19013] £30.00
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185 CROSSMAN, Carl L. THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE CHINA TRADE. Paintings, furnishings and exotic curiosities. 4to. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 462, with 461 plates (136 in colour). [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 1991. [70657] £45.00
186 CROWLEY, T.E. DISCOVERING MECHANICAL MUSIC. Small 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48, with 27 illustrations. [First
edition] Shire Publications, 1975. [43221] £15.00
187 CULME, John (introduction). THE COLMAN COLLECTION OF SILVER MUSTARD POTS. Square 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 143,
illustrated throughout. [First edition] Norwich: Colman Foods, 1979. [65837] £30.00
188 CUNNINGTON, C.Willett & Phillis. THE HISTORY OF UNDERCLOTHES. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 266, with 109 plates and illustrations.
Michael Joseph, 1951. [65102] £25.00
189 CURTIS, Tony. ADVERTISING ANTIQUES. A Lyle Price guide. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, illustrated in colour
throughout. [First edition] Galashiels: Lyle Publications, 1993. [64289] £25.00
190 —— LYLE PRICE GUIDE TO DOLLS & TOYS. Original glazed pictorial boards. Pp. 447, illustrated throughout (24 pages in colour).
Galashiels: Lyle Publications, 1992. [52808] £20.00
191 —— LYLE PRICE GUIDE TO PRINTED COLLECTABLES. Large 8vo. Original pictorial boards. Pp. 448, illustrated throughout (partly
in colour). Galashiels: Lyle Publications, 1994. [65424] £20.00
192 CUSHION, John P. POTTERY & PORCELAIN TABLEWARES. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper (some creased edge-tears). Pp. 240,
with 48 colour plates, 25 black and white illustrations and numerous line drawings. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1976. [69895] £15.00
193 —— and Margaret. A COLLECTOR’S HISTORY OF BRITISH PORCELAIN. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 448, with 776
iillustrations (135 in colour). Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994. [55766] £45.00
194 CUST, A.M. THE IVORY WORKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. “Handbooks of the Great Craftsmen” series Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
spine lettering slightly faded. Pp. xix, 170 with 37 plates. Flyleaves browned. [First edition] George Bell & Sons, 1902. [23165] £30.00
195 D’ALLEMAGNE, Henry René. DECORATIVE ANTIQUE IRONWORK. A pictorial treasury. All the plates from the 1924 French catalogue
of the Le Secq des Tournells Museum of Rouen. Introduction, bibliography and translation of captions by Vera K.Ostoia. Tall 4to. Original
pictorial wrappers. Pp. x, plus 415 pages of illustrations. New York: Dover Publications, 1968. [56361] £40.00
196 DAIKEN, Leslie. WORLD OF TOYS. A guide to the principal public and private collections in Great Britain of period toys, dolls and dolls’
houses, games, puppets and marionettes, toy soldier, musical boxes and automata. Also modern toys. toymakers and toyshops, puppet and
marionette troupes, the British toy industry and toy trade press. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 271, with 49 plates. [First edition]
Lambarde Press, 1963. [57536] £25.00
197 DAINTON, Courtney. CLOCK JACKS AND BEE BOLES. A dictionary of country sights. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, with 23
illustrations. [First edition] Phoenix House, 1957. [22232] £25.00
198 DALWICK, R.E.R. and HARMER, C.H.C. NEWFOUNDLAND AIR MAILS 1919-1930. With additional notes of subsequent fl ights and air
stamps. Original cloth gilt, spine a little faded. Pp. xii, 180, illustrated throughout. [First edition] H.R.Harmer, 1953. [19580] £45.00
199 DANIEL, Dorothy. CUT AND ENGRAVED GLASS 1771-1905. The collectors’ guide to American wares. Original cloth, dustwrapper (worn
and torn). Pp. 441, with 165 illustrations. New York: M.Barrow & Co., 1966. [26396] £40.00
200 DARLEY, Lionel. BOOK-BINDING THEN & NOW. A survey of the fi rst hundred and seventy-eight years of James Burn & Company.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 126, with 19 plates (2 in colour) and 9 line drawings. Flyleaves partly and lightly browned, otherwise a fi ne
copy. [First edition] Faber & Faber, 1959. [68878] £50.00
201 DAUMAS, Maurice. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS OF THE 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES AND THEIR MAKERS. 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 361, with 142 illustrations. [First edition] Batsford, 1972. [66664] £65.00
202 DAVENPORT, Cyril. BEAUTIFUL BOOKS. Large square 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, dustwrapper. Pp. xiii,
110, with 19 plates (2 tipped-in in colour). [First edition] Methuen, 1929. [47178] £35.00
203 —— THE ENGLISH REGALIA. 4to. Original buckram gilt, spine rather faded, 2 small spots to upper board. Pp. xiii, 66, with 12 colour
plates. [Limited edition (No.208 of 500 copies)] Kegan Paul etc., 1897. [43169] £120.00
204 DAVIDSON, Joe. THE ART OF THE CIGAR LABEL. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 252, illustrated throughout in colour. New
Jersey: Wellfl eet Press, 1989. [21581]
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205 DAVIE, Oliver. METHODS IN THE ART OF TAXIDERMY. The whole containing fi ve hundred fi gures clearly illustrating the modes
of procedure in the art, together with examples of characteristic forms and attitudes of various species of the animal kingdom. Including
reproductions from the photographs of actual work by American taxidermists. 4to. Original cloth silvered, a little worn. Pp.xiv, 359, with 90
plates, chiefl y drawn by Theodore Jasper. Joints cracking. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900. [30371] £85.00
206 DAVIS, Alec. PACKAGE & PRINT. The development of container and label design. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (tape-marks to the
reverse). Pp. 208, illustrated throughout and with four pages in colour. Ex-library, with front fl yleaf removed and a few stamps and marks, a little
cockled at the top edges. [First edition] Faber, 1967. [54135] £20.00
207 DAVIS, Kenneth and HENVEY, Thom. RESTORING FURNITURE. Learn to make old furniture new with a master craftsman. Tall 8vo.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 112, illustrated in colour throughout. Guide to materials and suppliers loosely inserted. [First edition] Orbis
Publishing, 1978. [34147] £25.00
208 DAWSON, Nelson. GOLDSMITHS’ AND SILVERSMITH’S WORK. “Connoisseur’s Library” series. 4to. Original red cloth gilt. Pp. xx, 267,
4, with frontispiece, 127 plates and text fi gures. Endpapers and advertisements foxed, otherwise a very nice copy. [First edition] Methuen & Co,
1907. [21582] £75.00
209 DAY, Kenneth. THE TYPOGRAPHY OF PRESS ADVERTISEMENT. A practical summary of principles and their application. Foreword by
Lord Mackintosh of Halifax. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvi, 304, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Ernest Benn, 1956. [28605] £60.00
210 DE CARLE, Donald. CLOCKS AND THEIR VALUE. Illustrated guide to ancient and modern clocks with a unique chart of all known Tompion
numbered clocks. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 159, with line drawings throughout. N.A.G.Press, 1979. [22239] £25.00
211 —— PRACTICAL CLOCK REPAIRING. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xxxii (advertisements), x, 239, with text illustrations throughout. A few
stamps of Mark Collins, tools watch & clockmaker of Manchester. [First edition] NAG Press, 1952. [69519] £25.00
212 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 244, with text illustrations throughout. Gift inscription on the fl yleaf
(non-authorial). Ipswich: NAG Press, 1984. [69512] £30.00
213 —— WATCH AND CLOCK ENCYCLOPEDIA. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. xii, 330, illustrated throughout. Third edition, NAG
Press,. 1995. [69535] £25.00
214 DE LA BERE, Brigadier Sir Ivan. THE QUEEN’S ORDERS OF CHIVALRY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. 212, with
20 illustrations. [First edition] William Kimber, 1921. [21028] £25.00
215 DELIEB, Eric. INVESTING IN SILVER. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 152, (vi), illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome.
Barrie & Rockliff, 1968. [34145] £30.00
216 DEMUS, Otto. BYZANTINE MOSAIC DECORATION. Aspects of monumental art in Byzantium. Small 4to. Original blue cloth gilt. Pp. xiii,
97, plus 64 plates. Few spots to front endpapers. [First edition] Kegan Paul etc., 1947. [44339] £45.00
217 DES FONTAINES, J.K. (introduction). THE WEDGWOOD CATALOGUE OF ORNAMENTAL SHAPES 1878,. Original wrappers. Pp. (ii),
(24, facsimile illustrations). The Wedgwood Society, 1984. [69873] £20.00
218 DESAUTELS, Paul E. THE GEM KINGDOM. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 252, illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome.
Inscription heavily erased from corner of fl yleaf. [First UK edition] Macdonald, 1971. [28297] £30.00
219 DIGBY, George Wingfi eld. THE TAPESTRY COLLECTION. Medieval and renaissance. Victoria and Albert Museum. Oblong 4to. Original
coarse-weave cloth gilt, dustwrapper (extremities a trifl e rubbed). Pp. 84, with colour frontispiece, plus 108 pages of plates. [First edition]
HMSO, 1980. [65075] £35.00
220 DILLMONT, Thérèse de. ALPHABET DE LA BRODEUSE. Letters, chiffres, monogrammes et ornements à points comptés, suivis d’une série
de modèles avec calques pour broderie de blanc. Bibliothèque D.M.C. Oblong 8vo. Original decorated boards. 92 plates (82 in colour). Title
lightly spotted. Mulhouse (France): Editions Th.de Dillmont, no date. [52883] £35.00
221 —— ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NEEDLEWORK. D.M.C.Library. English edition. Tall 8vo. Original sage-green cloth. Pp. (ii), 578, (ii), with
890 text illustrations. Mulhouse (France): Th. de Dillmont, no date. [42569] £35.00
222 —— JUGOSLAVIAN EMBROIDERIES. (Ist.series). D.M.C. library. Oblong 8vo. Original patterned wrappers (a little soiled and top
corners slightly chipped). Pp. 15, (iv), with 20 coloured plates and 8 plates of tracings. Text in English. Mulhouse (France): Editions Th.de
Dillmont, no date (1930s). [51282] £20.00
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223 —— LES DENTELLES AUX FUSEAUX [BOBBIN LACE]. 1re. série. D.M.C.Library. Original wrappers, card box with label. Pp. 176,
with 8 plates, 61 text illustrations and 55 folding patterns. Text in French. Mulhouse (France): Th. de Dillmont, no date [c.1912]. [65095]
£65.00
224 DIRSZTAY, Patricia. CHURCH FURNISHINGS. A NADFAS Guide. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 246, illustrated throughout. [First
edition] Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. [27864] £35.00
225 DIXON, Michael V. CONSTABULARY DUTIES. A history of policing in picture postcards. Foreword by Sir Peter Imbert. Oblong 8vo,
original wrappers. Pp.114, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Loggerheads: S.B.Publications, 1990. [68933] £15.00
226 DONSON, Theodore B. PRINTS AND THE PRINT MARKET. A handbook for buyers, collectors, and connoisseurs. Original boards,
dustwrapper (spine rather faded). Pp. xii, 493, with 120 illustrations. Gift inscription on the fl yleaf (non-authorial). [First edition] New York:
Thomas Y.Crowell, 1977. [69803] £25.00
227 DOUGLAS, James. SCOTTISH BANKNOTES. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 257, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Stanley
Gibbons, 1975. [68929] £25.00
228 [DOUGLAS-MORRIS,. Kenneth]. NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL Part 1 (1793-1808): roll of the recipients. Square 8vo. Original
red wrappers, spine label. Pp. 469, facsimile of corrected typescript. Extremely scarce. Spink & Son, no date [late 1970s]. [18736] £150.00
229 DOUSSY, Michel. ANTIQUES. Professional secrets for the amateur. Translated from the French by Patrick Evans. Original boards, dustwrapper
(edges a trifl e browned). Pp. 373, illustrated. BCA, 1974. [68855] £25.00
230 DOWNMAN, Edward Andrews. BLUE DASH CHARGERS and other early English tin enamel circular dishes. Large 8vo. Original parchment
boards boards, a little rubbed. Pp. xi, 176, untrimmed, with tipped-in colour frontispiece and numerous plates and text illustrations. [First
edition] T.Werner Laurie, 1919. [62186] £85.00
231 DRAKE, Maurice. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GLASS-PAINTING. With some remarks upon the Swiss glass miniatures of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Tall 4to. Original parchment-backed boards, rather worn and soiled, surface defects to a lower corner. Pp.x, 226, with 36
mounted plates, some coloured. Small stamp on verso of title. [First edition] T.Werner Laurie Ltd., 1912. [50897] £65.00
232 DRINKWATER, Peter I. THE ART OF SUNDIAL CONSTRUCTION. Original wrappers. Pp. 74, (viii), illustrated. Third edition, Shipstonon-Stour:
privately published, 1993. [69525] £25.00
233 DUDSON, Audrey M. DUDSON. A family of potters since 1800. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine rather faded and chipped at
the head). Pp. xiv, 284, with 25 colour plates, 91 monochrome plates, 8 plans, 3 maps and 5 family trees. [First privately printed limited edition
(2000 copies)] Stoke-on-Trent: Dudson Brothers, 1985. [69906] £35.00
234 DUKELSKAYA, Larissa (introduction). THE HERMITAGE. English art sixteenth to nineteenth century. Paintings, sculpture, prints and
drawings, minor arts. Small 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 316, with 354 fi ne plates (237 in colour). [First edition] Collet’s, and Leningrad:
Aurora Art Publishers, 1979. [19418] £75.00
235 DUNCAN, Alastair. ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO LIGHTING. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 208, with 171
illustrations (36 in colour). [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1978. [46048] £60.00
236 DUNCAN, David Douglas. GREAT TREASURES OF THE KREMLIN. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 176, illustrated in colour
throughout. [First edition] New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. [28274] £25.00
237 DUNHILL, Alfred H. THE GENTLE ART OF SMOKING. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, 146 with 14 plates. [First edition] Max Reinhardt,
1954. [47267] £20.00
238 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiii, 146 with 14 plates. Max Reinhardt, 1978. [23231] £20.00
239 DURDIK, Jan, MUDRA, Miroslav and SADA, Miroslav. FIREARMS. A collector’s guide: 1326-1900. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(price-clipped) Pp. 248, with 47 colour plates, 127 monochrome illustrations and 362 line drawings. Hamlyn, 1985. [40857] £30.00
240 DUVEEN, J.H. THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF DUVEEN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. (iv), 252, with 9 plates. [First edition]
Longmans, Green & Co., 1957. [56060] £20.00
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241 EARLE, Cyril (Major). THE EARLE COLLECTION OF EARLY STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY illustrating over seven hundred different
pieces. With an introduction by Frank Falkner and a supplementary chapter by T.Sheppard. Folio. Original brown cloth gilt, rather rubbed and
soiled, corners a little softened. Pp. xlvi, 240, top edges gilt, uncut, with 10 colour plates and 270 sepia half-tones. [First edition] A.Brown &
Sons, 1915. [45139] £250.00
242 EASTON, John. BRITISH POSTAGE STAMP DESIGN. Original cloth gilt, rather faded. Pp. 384, with 42 plates. Faber, 1946. [23138]
£25.00
243 —— EDWARDES, Ernest L. THE GRANDFATHER CLOCK. An archaeological and descriptive essay on the long-case clock with its
weight-driven precursors and contemporaries. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little chipped). Pp. 253, with 36 plates.
Second edition, Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son, 1952. [58577] £45.00
244 —— —— another edition. An historical and descriptive treatise on the English long case clock, with notes on some Scottish, Welsh
and Irish examples. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 270, with 221 plates. Third edition reprinted, Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son,
1976. [48151] £75.00
245 —— THE STORY OF THE PENDULUM CLOCK. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 270, with 206 plates. [First edition]
Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son, 1977. [47994] £85.00
246 EDWARDS, Ralph. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHAIR. Original wrappers, a trifl e creased. Pp. 30, plus 120 plates. Victoria and Albert
Museum, 1951. [42553] £25.00
247 —— THE SHORTER DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE from the middle ages to the late Georgian period. Thick 4to. Original
cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked. Pp. 684, top edges gilt, with colour frontispiece and illustrated throughout. Country Life, 1969. [56298]
£75.00
248 —— and JOURDAIN, Margaret. GEORGIAN CABINET-MAKERS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (sometime folded). Pp. xiv,
192, with 174 illustrations. Revised edition, Country Life, 1946. [49083] £75.00
249 —— and RAMSEY, L.G.C. THE CONNOISSEUR PERIOD GUIDES to the houses, decoration, furnishing and chattels of the classic
periods. 6 volumes, original cloth gilt, dustwrappers. Each volume with over 200 illustrations and 50 line drawings. A fi ne set. [First editions]
The Connoisseur, 1956-58. [19462] £120.00
250 —— —— THE CONNOISSEUR’S COMPLETE PERIOD GUIDES to the houses, decoration, furnishing and chattels of the classic
periods. Large thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (some chips to top edge). Pp. 1536, with 576 pages of black and white illustrations and
numerous line-drawings, diagrams and contemporary prints. [First one-volume edition] The Connoisseur, 1968. [38405] £45.00
251 ELLIS, Hubert Dynes. A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT SILVER PLATE BELONGING TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY
OF MERCHANT TAYLORS, with two illustrations and a table of maker’s-marks. Original pebble-grained blue cloth gilt, arms of the Company
on the upper board, corners a trifl e worn. Pp. (xviii), red-ruled and with corner decorations throughout, with 2 photographic plates and a table.
Scarce. Privately printed, 1892. [58284] £75.00
252 ELVILLE, E.M. ENGLISH AND IRISH CUT GLASS 1750-1950. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 95, with 62 illustrations.
Country Life, 1953. [57516] £30.00
253 EPSTEIN, Jacob. LET THERE BE SCULPTURE. An autobiography. Original cloth, dustwrapper (very defective and taped). Pp. 335, with 48
plates. [First edition] Michael Joseph, 1940. [38408] £30.00
254 EVAN-THOMAS, Owen. DOMESTIC UTENSILS OF WOOD A short history of wooden articles in domestic use from the sixteenth to the
middle of the nineteenth century. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. ix, 178, with 70 plates. [Facsimile edition] Wakefi eld:
EP Publishing, 1973. [56255] £50.00
255 EVANS, Joan. A HISTORY OF JEWELLERY 1100-1870. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 240, with 176 pages of
plates (10 in colour). [First edition] Faber, 1953. [28018] £85.00
256 EXHBITION CATALOGUE: ARTS OF THE T’ANG DYNASTY. Catalogue by Alan S.Hartman with an introduction by Paul A.J.Spheeris.
4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 62, illustrated throughout, and with 7 full-page colour plates. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1973. [42570] £25.00
257 —— A CATALOGUE OF CHARTERS & OTHER OBJECTS exhibited at St.John’s Rooms, during the celebration of the 700th anniversary
of the mayoralty. Small 8vo. Modern wrappers. Pp. 52, with 2-page folding advertisement for the exhibition. Winchester: Warren & Son, 1884.
[18190] £15.00
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258 —— CHINESE JADE throughout the ages. An exhibition organised by The Arts Council and The Oriental Ceramic Society 1st May-22nd
June 1975. 4to. original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 152, illustrated throughout, including 9 colour plates and a map. Victoeia and Albert Museum,
1975. [42519] £35.00
259 —— CLOTHES FROM NORTHUMBRIAN COUNTRY HOUSES. Original wrappers. Unpaginated. 16 pages of plates. Newcastle-upon-
Tyne: Laing Art Gallery, 1972. [67996] £20.00
260 —— EARLY CELTIC ART. Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh and the Hayward Gallery. Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. (iv), 42,
illustrated. Edinburgh University Press for The Arts Council, 1970. [64189] £15.00
261 —— FLOWERS OF THE CHISEL. JAPANESE METALWORK OF THE MEIJI AND TAISHO PERIODS. 16-27 June 1997. 4to. Original
pictorial wrappers. Pp. 64, illustrated in colour throughout. 37 fi ne items described and illustrated. Malcolm Fairley, 1997. [36628] £30.00
262 —— HISTORIC PLATE OF THE CITY OF LONDON exhibited at Goldsmith’s Hall. Catalogue and Illustrations. 2 volumes, large square
8vo. Original wrappers, a little spotted. Pp. 86, (iii); 77 plates. Goldsmith’s Hall, 1951. [42562] £25.00
263 —— MASTERPIECES OF BYZANTINE ART. Original wrappers. Pp. 95, with 15 plates. Edinburgh Festival Society, 1958. [69718]
£15.00
264 —— MORRIS AND COMPANY,1861-1940. A commemorative centenary exhibition. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 32, with 10 illustrations.
Some press cuttings and 3 leafl ets of the William Morris Society loosely inserted. The Arts Council, 1961. [18673] £35.00
265 —— PERSIAN ART. An illustrated souvenir of the exhibition of Persian art at Burlington House, London, 1931. Original cloth-backed
patterned boards gilt, spine a little faded. Pp. xix, 101, with colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations throughout. Second edition,
Hudson & Kearns, 1931. [28086] £25.00
266 —— PRINCELY MAGNIFICENCE. Court jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630. 15th October 1980-1st February 1981. Square small 4to.
Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 140, illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. Debrett’s Peerage and the V. & A., 1980. [28300]
£25.00
267 —— SILVER FROM THE ASSHETON BENNETT COLLECTION. Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 53, plus 25 plates. Manchester
City Art Gallery, 1965. [50900] £20.00
267 —— THIRD INTERNATIONAL ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. Presented by C.I.N.O.A. Large 8vo. Original stiff pictorial wrappers.
Pp. (xiv), 80, plus 332 plates. An exhibition by the International Confederation of Art Dealers. Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962. [16813]
£15.00
268 —— ANTIQUE PORCELAIN CO.LTD. CORONATION EXHIBITION 1953. 4to. Original cream boards gilt. Pp. 88, illustrated
throughout, and with 7 full-page colour plates (some tipped-in). The Antique Porcelain Co., 1953. [36268] £40.00
269 —— BULLEN, G. LUTHER EXHIBITION , 1883, in the Grenville Library,. Printed books, manuscripts, portraits, and medals illustrating
the life of Martin Luther, with biographical sketch. Original printed wrappers, a trifl e fi ngered, neatly rebacked. Pp. 42. A few marginal blind
stamps. British Museum, 1883, [18191] £20.00
270 —— CHITTENDEN, Jacqueline, and SELTMAN, Charles. GREEK ART. A commemorative catalogue of an exhibition held in 1946
at the Royal Academy, Burlington House. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, rather faded, dustwrapper (worn and chipped). Pp. 72 plus 128 plates.
Flyleaves rather browned. [First edition] Faber, 1947. [69205] £25.00
271 —— FAGG, William. NIGERIAN TRIBAL ART. Square 8vo. Original wrappers, tape marks to endpapers. Unpaginated. 329 items
described, 32 plates. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1960. [68863] £15.00
272 —— HOLLAND, Ralph. NOBLE PATRONAGE. An exhibition devoted to the activity of the Percy family, Earls and Dukes of
Northumberland, as collectors and patrons of the arts. Foreword by Kenneth Rowntree. Square 8vo. Original wrappers, a little dusty. Unpaginted.
41 plates, 152 items described. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne University: The Hatton Gallery, 1963. [67984] £20.00
273 —— KUHN, Hermann & LUTZ, Michel. PAPIER. Katalog der ausstellung [Catalogue of the exhibition]. Large 8vo. Original wrappers.
Pp. 216, illustrated throughout. Munchen: Deutsches Museum, 1986. [54814] £20.00
274 —— MORRIS AND COMPANY 1861-1940. A commemorative centenary exhibition. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 32, with 10 illustrations.
The Arts Council, 1961. [18706] £30.00
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275 —— RUSHWORTH & DREAPER. ANTIQUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and historical manuscripts. Original patterned wrappers with
paper label. Pp. (24), printed in red and dark brown, with 20 tipped-in photographic plates. Together with a later edition of the same (original
wrappers, pp.16, illustrated, c.1950). Liverpool: Rushworth and Dreaper, no date [1930s]. [25344] £65.00
276 —— —— another copy. Original patterned wrappers with paper label. Pp. (24), printed in red and dark brown, with 20 tipped-in
photographic plates. Liverpool: Rushworth and Dreaper, no date [1930s]. [27525] £45.00
277 —— WATSON, William (editor). THE GREAT JAPAN EXHIBITION. Art of the Edo period 1600-1868. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 365, illustrated throughout, and with a 96-page section of colour plates. Lower hinge a little strained, otherwise a fi ne copy. Royal Academy
of Arts, 1981. [21585] £50.00
278 EYLES, Desmond. THE DOULTON LAMBETH WARES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (head of spine a little worn, a few closed edgetears).
Pp. 179, with 78 colour plates, 167 illustrastions, plus text drawings and numerous marks. [First edition] Hutchinson, 1975. [69891]
£65.00
279 —— ‘GOOD SIR TOBY’. The story of toby jugs and character jugs through the ages. Large 8vo. Original two-tone cloth gilt. Pp. 108, with
125 illustrations (many in colour). [First edition] Doulton & Co., 1955. [69876] £25.00
280 FAIRBANK, Alfred. A BOOK OF SCRIPTS. King Penguin series. Small 8vo. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 40, plus 64 plates. Penguin
Books, 1920. [27358] £20.00
281 FALKINER, Richard. INVESTING IN ANTIQUE JEWELLERY. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 153, (vi), with 16 pages of colour
plates and numerous black and white illustrations. [First edition] Barrie & Rockliff, The Cresset Press, 1968. [28301] £30.00
282 FARCY, L.de. HISTOIRE ET DESCRIPTION DES TAPISSERIES DE LA CATHEDRALE D’ANGERS. 4to. Later plain wrappers, dusty. Pp.
80, illustrated. Lille: Desclée, de Brouwer et Cie, no date [1920s]. [19016] £25.00
283 FARLEIGH, John. FIFTEEN CRAFTSMEN ON THEIR CRAFTS. Edited with an introduction. Original cloth. Pp. viii, 118, with 12 pages
of illustrations, including a fi ne woodcut frontispiece by Farleigh. Cancelled library label on pastedown. [First edition] Sylvan Press, 1945
[29090] £25.00
284 FENN, Frederick and WYLLIE, B. OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE. Newnes Library of the Applied Arts series. Original blue cloth gilt extra.
Pp. x, 91, top edges gilt, with 94 plates. George Newnes, no date [c.1913]. [69637] £20.00
285 FINLAY, Ian. SCOTTISH CRAFTS. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine faded. Pp. 128, with 16 coloured plates and 68 black and white
illustrations. [First edition] Harrap, 1948. [25472] £30.00
286 FINLAY, Michael. ENGLISH DECORATED BRONZE MORTARS and their makers. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256, with 29
colour plates, 330 black and white plates and 280 illustrations. [First signed limited edition (600 copies only) Carlisle: Plains Books, 2010.
[70517] £50.00
A fi ne new work which will be the standard source book on the subject for many years to come.
287 —— THE MINING AND RELATED TOKENS OF WEST CUMBERLAND. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.vii, 196, with 275
illustrations, mostly in colour. A splendid work, which although not intended as a full catalogue of all the recorded types and varieties, describes
in painstaking detail and illustrates 142 mining and related tokens from West Cumberland with a vast amount of related information, and will
undoubtedly remain the standard reference for many years to come. [Signed limited edition (No.187 of 500 copies)] Wetheral: privately published
by Plains Books, 2006. [56919] £50.00
288 FISHER, P.J. JEWELS. Large 8vo.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. 112, with 81 illustrations (4 in colour). [First edition]
Batsford, 1965. [31863] £30.00
289 FISHER, Stanley W. ENGLISH BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN OF THE 18TH CENTURY. An illustrated descriptive account of the early
soft paste productions of Bow, Chelsea, Lowestoft, Derby, Longton Hall, Bristol, Worcester, Caughley and Liverpool potters, circa 1740-1800.
4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xv, 190, with 45 illustrations, 3 in colour. [First edition] Batsford, 1947. [16178] £95.00
290 —— WORCESTER PORCELAIN. Collectors Monographs series. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, with colour frontispiece and 97
illustrations. Ward Lock, no date [c.1970]. [42537] £20.00
291 FITZGERALD, Oscar P. THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN FURNITURE. An illustrated survey of furniture from colonial times to the
present day. 4to. Original two-tone cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xii, 323, well illustrated, partly in colour. New York: Gramercy Publishing, 1985.
[69894] £20.00
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292 FLEMING, John & HONOUR, Hugh. THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF DECORATIVE ARTS. Large thick 8vo. Original boards gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 937, illustrated throughout, and with 67 colour plates. A fi ne copy. Viking, 1989. [68854] £45.00
293 FLEMMING, Ernst. ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TEXTILES. Decorative fabrics from antiquitity to the beginning of the 19th century including
the far east and Peru. Completely revised with an introduction by Renate Jaques. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxx, plus 16 coloured
and 288 monochrome plates. [First edition] Zwemmer, 1958. [25186] £140.00
294 FLETCHER, Geoffrey. POPULAR ART IN ENGLAND. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 80, with coloured frontispiece
and illustrations by the author throughout. [First edition] Harrap, 1962. [65781] £20.00
295 FLOWER, Cedric (editor). DUCK & CABBAGE TREE. A pictorial history of clothes in Australia 1788-1914. 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. (iv), 157, illustrated throughout, partly in colours. [First edition] Angus & Robertson, 1968. [46159] £35.00
296 FOOT, Mirjam. PICTORIAL BOOKBINDINGS. Original wrappers. Pp. 64, with 58 illustrations, many in colour. [First edition] The British
Library, 1986. [69055] £15.00
297 FORMENTON, Fabio. ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 252, illustrated in colour
throughout. Hamlyn, 1977. [34137] £30.00
298 FORSTER, R.K. POSTMARK COLLECTING. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (taoe-marks to the reverse). Pp. 192, illustrated throughout.
Ex-library, with tape-marks to pastedown, fl yleaf removed and withdrawn stamp to half-title. [First edition] Stanley Paul, 1960. [64304] £20.00
299 FOSSATI, Gildo. THE WORLD OF JADE. Great masterpieces of Chinese art. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 214, illustrated in colour
throughout. [First edition] New York: Crescent Books, 1992. [61326] £20.00
300 FOSTER, Michael. HORNBY DUBLO TRAINS. Hornby Dublo 1938-1964. The story of the perfect table railway. With a compendium compiled
by Alan F.Ellis. Oblong 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 416, with 632 photographs and diagrams (64 in colour). New Cavendish Books,
1991. [60836] £40.00
301 FOWKE, Frank Rede. THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. A history and description. The Ex-Libris series, edited by Gleeson White. Original cloth
gilt, rather faded and marked. Pp. ix, 139, with 79 plates (the last plate a little creased). George Bell & Sons, 1898. [57513]
Armorial bookplate of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence, F.S.A. (East Anglian antiquary and one of the founders of the Norfolk
Archaeological Trust) .
£45.00
302 FOWLER, John and CORNFORTH, John. ENGLISH DECORATION IN THE 18TH CENTURY. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(edges rather worn and soiled). Pp. 288, with 40 colour plates and 234 illustrations. [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1974. [56293] £75.00
303 —— —— another edition. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 288, with 40 colour plates and 234 illustrations.
Barrie & Jenkins, 1983. [57620] £75.00
304 FRASER, Antonia. A HISTORY OF TOYS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a short closed tear, lower edge rather defective). Pp. 256, with
302 illustrations (72 in colour). Ex-libris of Patience Arnold [Lancashire artist]. Spring Books, 1972. [52792] £25.00
305 FREESTON, Ewart C. THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODEL OPEN BOATS. Large square 8vo. Pp. 96, illustrated throughout. [First edition]
Conway Maritime Press, 1975. [64841] £20.00
306 —— PRISONER OF WAR SHIP MODELS 1775-1925. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xv, 174, illustrated throughout. Conway
Maritime Press, 1987. [64859] £45.00
307 FRELINGHUYSEN, Alice Cooney. AMERICAN PORCELAIN 1770-1920. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xv, 320, with 221
illustrations (169 in colour). [First edition] New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. [69884]
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 8 April 1989 until 25 June 1989.
£65.00
308 FREY, Albert R. DICTIONARY OF NUMISMATIC NAMES. With glossary of numismatic terms in English, French, German, Italian and
Swedish by Mark M.Salton. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. x, 312, 94. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1947. [68860] £45.00
309 FROST, S.Annie. THE LADIES’ GUIDE TO NEEDLE WORK, EMBROIDERY, etc. Being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies’ fancy work.
Original pictorial wrappers (worn and torn , edges very chipped). Pp. 158, (ii), with 122 illustrations. Short edge-tear to fi rst leaf of text. New
York: Ladies’ Floral Cabinet Co., no date [c.1877[. [70020] £45.00
310 FROST, T.W. THE PRICE GUIDE TO OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 396, illustrated throughout. Price
revision lists for 1974 and 1979 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971. [34189] £30.00
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311 FROW, George L. and SEFL, Albert F. THE EDISON CYLINDER PHONOGRAPHS. A detailed account of the entertainment models until
1929. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xii, 207, illustrated throughout. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Sevenoaks: George L.Frow, 1978.
[43066] £85.00
312 GAGE, Deborah and MARSH, Madeleine. TOBACCO CONTAINERS & ACCESSORIES. Their place in eighteenth century European social
history. Tall 4to. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. Ppp. 144, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. [First edition] Gage Bluett & Company,
1988. [55919] £40.00
313 GAIER, Claude. FOUR CENTURIES OF LIÈGE GUNMAKING. English translation by F.J.Norris. Folio. Original green leather-cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 287, with 135 colour plates and 380 illustrations. Scarce. Second edition, Liège: Eugène Wahle, 1985. [69560] £195.00
314 GALPIN, F.W. (Rev.Canon), BENTON, G.Montagu (Rev.) and PRESSEY, W.J. (Rev.) THE CHURCH PLATE OF THE COUNTY OF
ESSEX. Edited with an introduction by Rev.Pressey. 4to. Original two-tone cloth, spine a little soiled. Pp. x, 335, with 27 plates. Scattered
foxing. [First edition] Colchester: Benham & Co., 1926. [55461] £75.00
315 GARNER, Harry (Sir). CHINESE AND JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMELS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 120, with 8 coloured
plates, plus 96 pages of monochrome plates. Second edition, Faber, 1970. [26398] £50.00
316 —— CHINESE LACQUER. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 285, with 9 coloured and 214 monochrome plates. [First edition] Faber,
1979. [23102] £60.00
317 —— ORIENTAL BLUE & WHITE. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxx, 79, plus 100 pages of plates. Faber, 1973. [34154] £40.00
318 GARRATT, John G. MODEL SOLDIERS FOR THE CONNOISSEUR. Square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 248, illustrated
throughout. [First edition] Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. [68034] £30.00
319 GAWTHROP, Walter E. THE BRASSES OF OUR HOMELAND CHURCHES. A practical guide to the study of brasses - their origin and
development - and to brass-rubbing ... 12mo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 130 with 62 plates. A few spots. [First edition] The Homeland Association
Ltd., 1923. [16609] £20.00
320 GAYRE, G.R. WASSAIL! IN MAZERS OF MEAD. A account of mead, metheglin, sack and other ancient liquors, and of the mazer cups out
of which they were drunk, with some comments upon the drinking customs of our forebears. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 176, with 12 illustrations.
Endpapers a little browned. Presentation copy, inscribed “to Mr.McConville of Pathe News with the compliments of the author”, signed and
dated 29/6/49. [First edition] Phillimore, 1948. [61806] £50.00
321 GAZELEY, W.J. WATCH AND CLOCK MAKING AND REPAIRING. Dealing with the construction and repair of watches, clocks and
chronometers. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 425, with 314 text illustrations. Robert Hale, 1993. [69526] £25.00
322 GEORGE, J.N. ENGLISH GUNS AND RIFLES. Being an account of the development, design and usage of English sporting rifl es and
shotguns - from their introduction during the 15th century until the advent of the metallic cartridges in the 19th century - together with notes on
muskets, service rifl es, blunderbusses and other arms. Including also various historical notes and accounts regarding individual makers and users
of these arms, Original cloth. Pp. 344, (i), with 24 plates and numerous text illustrations. [First edition] Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Co., 1947.
[32034] £75.00
[Riling: 2592]. The author was killed in action in North Africa in 1942, and the last chapter was completed by S.Basil Haw.
323 GEORGE, John Nigel. ENGLISH PISTOLS & REVOLVERS. An historical outline of the development and design of English hand fi rearms
from the 17th century to the present day. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn and chipped). Pp. (x), 256, with 28 plates and numerous
illustrations. The Holland Press, 1961. [70728] £25.00
324 GIBBON, Michael. THE WORK OF MICHAEL GIBBON 1962-ONWARDS. A theme of craftsmanship art, expressed in a style of carvingsculpture.
Square 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 18, illustrated throughout. Signed copy. Grange-over-Sands: J.Wadsworth, 1977.
[20198] £15.00
325 GILBERT, Christopher. PICTORIAL DICTIONARY OF MARKED LONDON FURNITURE 1700-1840. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 502, with 1048 illustrations. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Furniture History Society, 1996. [55764] £75.00
326 —— THOMAS CHIPPENDALE AS UNDERTAKER. Reprinted from Journ.Furniture Hist.Soc., Volume IX. Large 8vo. Original wrappers.
Pp. 7, with 4 plates. Leeds: The Chippendale Society, 1973. [57409] £15.00
327 GILHESPY, F.Brayshaw. DERBY PORCELAIN. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges worn and chipped). Pp. 144, with 12 coloured
plates and 170 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] MacGibbon and Kee, 1961. [69893] £25.00
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328 —— and BUDD, Dorothy M. ROYAL CROWN DERBY from 1876 to the present day. Including Sampson Hancock, King Street, Derby
1849-1935. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn, price-clipped). Pp. 87, with coloured frontispiece and 86 illustrations. [First
edition] Charles Skilton, 1964. [18158] £40.00
329 GLEESON, Janet. COLLECTING PRINTS AND POSTERS. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, illustrated in colour throughout.
[First edition] Miller’s, 1997. [63720] £25.00
330 GLOAG, John. THE ENGLISHMAN’S CHAIR. Origins, Design, and Social History of Seat Furniture in England. Thick 8vo. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.xvi, 307, (ii), with 64 plates and numerous text illustrations. [First edition] Allen & Unwin, 1964. [30324] £45.00
331 —— TIME, TASTE AND FURNITURE. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a little faded and marked. Pp. 330, with numerous plates and
drawings by E.J.Warne. [First edition] Grant Richards, 1925. [47774] £25.00
332 —— RIDGWAY PORCELAINS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 257, with 16 colour plates and 218 illustrations. A fi ne copy.
Second edition, Antique Collectors Club, 1985. [69880] £75.00
333 GODDEN, Geoffrey A. BRITISH PORCELAIN. An illustrated guide. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 452, with 12 colour plates
and 574 illustrations. Barrie & Jenkins, 1980. [70615] £60.00
334 —— —— another edition. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 452, with 12 colour plates and 574 illustrations. Barrie &
Jenkins, 1990. [54408] £60.00
335 —— BRITISH POTTERY. An illustrated guide. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 452, with 18 colour plates and over 600
photographs. Barrie & Jenkins, 1980 [70616] £25.00
336 —— CAUGHLEY & WORCESTER PORCELAINS 1775-1800. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxxvii, 366, with 327
plates (10 in colour). [First limited edition (No.1489 of 1500 copies)] Herbert Jenkins, 1981. [70613] £85.00
337 —— COALPORT & COALBROOKDALE PORCELAINS. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxxi, 308, with 10 colour plates
and 237 illustrations. [Limited edition (No.239 of 1500 copies) Antique Collectors Club, 1981. [69902] £50.00
338 —— ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH PORCELAIN MANUFACTURERS. Thick small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 856,
with 451 illustrations. [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1988. [54412] £65.00
339 —— ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH POTTERY AND PORCELAIN MARKS. Thick small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
765, with a map and 8 plates, and facsimiles of marks throughout. Barrie & Jenkins, 1983. [70521] £45.00
340 —— GODDEN’S GUIDE TO EUROPEAN PORCELAIN. Large 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 345, with 337 illustrations (some
in colour). [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1993. [55774] £75.00
341 —— AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. xxvi, 390, with 679 illustrations. Bonanza Books, 1965. [42472] £35.00
342 —— —— another edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxvi, 390, with 679 illustrations. Second edition, Barrie &
Jenkins, 1980. [49868] £40.00
343 —— THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LOWESTOFT PORCELAIN. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (top edge a little chipped).
Pp. xix, 164, with 225 plates (8 in colour). Signed copy. [First edition] Herbert Jenkins, 1969. [69877] £65.00
344 —— MASON’S CHINA AND THE IRONSTONE WARES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 316, with over 360 illustrations (14
in colour). Revised and enlarged edition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980. [46049] £85.00
345 —— MINTON POTTERY & PORCELAIN OF THE FIRST PERIOD 1793-1850. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (two heavy
chips to the top edge). Pp. xvi, 168, with 12 coloured plates, and 161 illustrations. Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. [70614] £35.00
346 GOOD NEEDLEWORK: THE BOOK OF GOOD NEEDLEWORK. Number four. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges a little
rubbed. Pp. 160, illustrated throughout, partly in colours, and with full-colour frontispiece. New endpapers. Good Needlework Magazine, no
date. [47794] £15.00
347 GOWAN, Leo. THE CRAFT OF STICKMAKING. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, well illustrated (8 pages in colour).
Crowood Press, 1994. [64860] £20.00
348 GRABHAM, Oxley. YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, POTS AND POTTERS. With a new introduction by Peter Walton. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (spine rather faded). Pp. vii, 116, with 111 illustrations. Facsimile edition, S.R.Publishers, 1971. [34160] £45.00
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349
A good facsimile of a work fi rst published in 1916 by the Keeper of the York Museum, the result of much detailed research into the oral
traditions of the Yorkshire pottery industry.
GRANDJEAN, Serge, PIACENTI, Kirten Aschengreen, TRUMAN, Charles and BLUNT, Anthony. GOLD BOXES AND MINIATURES
OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
and slipcase. Pp. 367, top edges gilt, with numerous tipped-in coloured plate and monochrome illustrations. A mint copy. Offi ce du Livre, for The
National Trust, 1975. [23090] £120.00
350 GREEN, Bertha de Vere. A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO FANS over the ages. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e creased,
price-clipped). Pp. 332, with 40 coloured plates, 64 black and white illustrations and 68 line illustrations. [First edition] Muller, 1975. [19484]
£45.00
351 GREEN, David. GRINLING GIBBONS. His work as carver and statuary 1648-1721. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped, top
edge torn and repaired with a little loss, spine rather faded). Pp. 207, with frontispiece portrait and 248 illustrations. [First edition] Country Life,
1964. [43174] £120.00
352 GREENER, W.W. THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. Ninth edition, rewritten, and with many additional illustrations. Thick 8vo. Original
cloth Pp. (xiv), 804, xxvii, with over 700 illustrations. [Facsimile edition] New York: Bonanza Books, no date [1976]. [58242] £25.00
353 GREENHOWE, Jean. DOLLS IN NATIONAL AND FOLK COSTUME. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 112, with 6 colour
plates, 38 photographs and 60 patterns and diagrams. [First edition] Batsford, 1978. [46628] £20.00
354 GRIMWADE, A.G. THE QUEEN’S SILVER. A survey of Her Majesty’s personal collection. Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed patterned
boards gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. vii, 120, with 64 plates. [First edition] The Connnoisseur, 1953. [19594] £65.00
355 GROVES, Sylvia. THE HISTORY OF NEEDLEWORK TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (short
closed but creased tear to lower panel). Pp. 136, with 199 plates and 13 text drawings. An excellent copy of this classic reference work. Second
impression, Country Life, 1968. [69864] £50.00
356 GUNNIS, Rupert. DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS (1660-1851). Large thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 514 with
30 plates. Revised edition, Abbey Library, no date [c.1964]. [20918] £30.00
357 HABSBURG, Géza von, and SOLODKOFF, A.von. FABERGÉ. Court jeweller to the Tsars. Square small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 172, illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. Studio Vista / Christie’s, 1979. [19485] £30.00
358 HADFIELD, John. VICTORIAN DELIGHTS. Refl ections of taste in the nineteenth century. 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, with
180 illustrations, many in colour. [First edition] The Herbert Press, 1987. [65401] £20.00
359 HAGGAR, Reginald (introduction). THE WHITEHEAD CATALOGUE. James and Charles Whitehead, manufacturers, Hanley, Staffordshire.
4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. (vi), 25, 30, 4 (facsimiles). Bletchley: D.B.Drakard, no date [1970]. [69910]
Introduction to and facsimile of “The printed catalogue which James and Charles Whitehead issued in 1798, comprises 25 pages of
text in English, German, Dutch and French, 29 engraved plates of table wares, 4 engraved supplemental plates of tea and coffee ware
shapes, a title page and an engraved cover”. Uncommon.
£50.00
360 —— & ADAMS, Elizabeth, MASON PORCELAIN & IRONSTONE 1796-1853.Miles Mason and the Mason manufactories. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 133, with 8 colour plates and 144 illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1977. [69905] £50.00
361 HAILL, Catherine. THEATRE POSTERS. Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 48, with 35 colour plates. [First edition] HMSO for the V.& A.,
1983. [66322] £20.00
362 HAINES, Herbert (Rev.) A MANUAL OF MONUMENTAL BRASSES with an introduction, biographical note and bibliography by Richard
J.Busby. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a trifl e faded. Pp. xviii, 286, with portrait frontispiece and text illustrations. Bath: Adams and Dart, 1970.
[56972] £30.00
363 HAMILTON, Jean. PLAYING CARDS in the Victorian & Albert Museum Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 80, illustrated in colour and black
& white. [First edition] HMSO, 1988. [65331] £15.00
364 HAMMOND, Paul. FRENCH UNDRESSING. Naughty postcards from 1900 to 1920. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 136, illustrated throughout.
A little creasing. [First edition] Jupiter Books, 1976. [69092] £25.00
365 HANA, W.F.J. ENGLISH LANTERN CLOCKS. Translated by E.J.Tyler. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 159, with 127 plates.
[First edition] Poole: Blandford Press, 1979. [69529] £25.00
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366 HANNAS, Linda. THE ENGLISH JIGSAW PUZZLE 1760 TO 1890. With a descriptive checklist of puzzles in the museums of Great Britain
and the author’s collection. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 164, with 67 plates, 8 in colour. [First edition]
Wayland, 1972. [21743] £45.00
367 HARDING-HILL, Michae. WINDSOR CHAIRS. An illustrated celebration. 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 159, with
more than 150 colour plates. [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 2003. [64806] £30.00
368 HARDWICK, Paul. DISCOVERING HORN. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 192, with over 200 illustrations (18 in colour).
A fi ne copy. [First edition] Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1981. [62879] £50.00
369 HARDY, Charles E. JOHN BOWES AND THE BOWES MUSEUM. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 288, with 8 colour plates and
39 illustrations, and maps on endpapers. [First edition] Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1970. [38040] £40.00
370 HARDY, W.J. BOOK-PLATES. Original buckram gilt, spine faded and rather worn at head and foot, small label removed from the backstrip.
Pp. xvi, 175, untrimmed, with 36 plates. A few library stamps, some edges a little dusty. [First edition] Kegan Paul etc., 1893. [27673] £35.00
371 HARRIS, Ian. THE PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUE SILVER. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 532, illustrated throughout. Price revison
lists for 1982, 1984 and 1986 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1969. [34127] £35.00
372 —— THE PRICE GUIDE TO VICTORIAN SILVER. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 276, illustrated throughout. Price revison lists
for 1978, 1979 and 1980 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971. [34126] £30.00
373 HARRISON, E.S. (preface). SCOTTISH WOOLLENS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (worn and chipped, repaired on the reverse),.
Pp. xiv, 245, with 16 colour plates, 11 black and white plates and text illustrations throughout. Cancelled library stamp on fl yleaf and half-title.
National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufactures, 1957. [65080] £35.00
374 HARRISON, J.E. & MacCOLL, D.S. GREEK VASE PAINTING. A selection of examples with preface, introduction and description. Folio.
Original decorated cloth, neatly recased. Pp. 32, with coloured frontispiece and 42 plates on thin card. A few light spots, a little neat pencilled
marginalia to the text, but an excellent copy. [First edition] T.Fisher Unwin, 1894. [21762] £175.00
375 HARRISON, Reginald. THE ART OF SCRAPER BOARD. Original pictorial boards. Pp. 47, with colour frontispiece and 27 illustrations (2
in 2 colours). Medici Society, 1946. [53489] £30.00
376 HARRISON, T.Erat and TOWNSEND, W.G.Paulson. SOME TERMS COMMONLY USED IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Their application
defi ned & explained with illustrations. Original green cloth. Pp. xvi, 111, 24, with 82 illustrations. Rear endpapers rather spotted. Presentation
copy, inscribed by co-author W.G.P.Townsend to Ernest Hill, Principal of the Bourneville School of Arts and Crafts., and with an A.L.s. from
him loosely inserted. A text-book and illustrated glossary of types of ornament compiled by members of the Art Workers’ Guild. [First edition]
Batsford, 1906. [52884] £35.00
377 HARTMAN, Joan M. CHINESE JADE of fi ve centuries. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 172, with 10 colour and 45 black and
white plates. [First edition] Charles E.Tuttle, 1969. [42540] £30.00
378 HARTSHORNE, Albert. OLD ENGLISH GLASSES. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the
eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc. Folio. Original half decorated parchment gilt, extremities a little worn
and nicked. Pp. xxiii, 490, with 67 plates (including colour frontispiece) and 366 text illustrations. Joints cracking, some occasional foxing, but
a very good copy. [First edition] Edward Arnold, 1897. [43167] £250.00
379 HASKELL, Arnold and LEWIS, Min. INFANTILIA. The archaeology of the nursery. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 120, illustrated
throughout by Stanley Lewis. [First edition] Dennis Dobson, 1971. [23173] £30.00
380 HASLEM, John. THE OLD DERBY CHINA FACTORY: the workmen and their productions. Containing biographical sketches of the chief
artist workmen, the various marks used, fac-similes copied from the old Derby pattern books, the original price list of more than 400 fi gures
and groups, etc., etc. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards, a few slight marks, neatly re-cased. Pp. xvi, 255, top edges gilt, with
coloured frontispiece and 12 plates (11 colour-printed and tissue-guarded). [First edition] George Bell and Sons, 1876. [18160] £175.00
381 HASLUCK, Paul N. BOOKBINDING. “Work” handbook series. Small 8vo. Original wrappers, spine a little stripped at head and foot. Pp. 100,
with 125 text fi gures. Cassell and Company, 1919. [69052] £25.00
382 HASTINGS, Macdonald. THE SHOTGUN. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, illustrated in colour and black and white.
[First edition] David & Charles, 1981. [69564] £25.00
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383 HATCHER, Julian S. HATCHER’S NOTEBOOK. A standard reference book for shooters, gunsmiths, ballisticians, historians, hunters and
collectors. Large 8vo. Original cream boards gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn, old tape marks to head of spine). Pp. (viii), 640, well illustrated.
Third edition, Harrisburg, Penn.: The Stackpole Company, 1966. [70726] £40.00
384 HATTON, Richard G. DESIGN. An exposition of the principles and practice of the making of patterns. Tall 8vo. Full polished calf gilt prize
binding by Morrell, a little marked. Pp. (iv), 183, with 177 illustrations. The occasional spot or mark. Chapman and Hall, 1914. [21744] £75.00
385 HAYDEN, Arthur. CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE. With a chapter on old English chintzes by Hugh Phillips.
Original cloth gilt, lower board a little marked. Pp. 350, (ii), well illustrated. Ernest Benn, 1929. [42568] £25.00
386 HAYNES, D.E.L. FIFTY MASTERPIECES OF CLASSICAL ART IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
(viii), with a map and a plan, plus 50 hand-tipped colour plates with accompanying text. The British Museum, 1970. [28134] £45.00
387 HAYWARD, Charles H. CABINET MAKING FOR BEGINNERS. Tools, joints, cabinet construction, veneering and inlaying, drawing, cutting
lists etc., timber, fi ttings, typical designs. Woodworker handbooks series. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. vi, 209, well illustrated. Evans Brothers,
1963. [64512] £25.00
388 [ —— ] ENGLISH FURNITURE AT A GLANCE. A simple review in pictures of the origin and evolution of furniture from the sixteenth to
the eighteenth centuries. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper (head of spine chipped). Pp., xiv, 73, illustrated throughout. [First edition]
Architectural Press, 1924. [49559] £25.00
389 —— FURNITURE DESIGNS for dining room, sitting room, bedroom, kitchen & hall including scale elevations, construction drawings,
cutting lists. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, few small spots. Pp. 106, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Evans Bros., 1950. [17330] £25.00
390 —— SECOND BOOK OF FURNITURE DESIGNS with dimensioned scale elevations, construction drawings, cutting lists. Large 8vo.
Original cloth gilt. Pp. 106, illustrated. Ex-library, with label removed and stamps on verso if title. [First edition] Evans Bros, 1953. [16841]
£20.00
391 HEAL, Ambrose. LONDON TRADESMEN’S CARDS OF THE XVIIITH CENTURY. An account of their origin and use. Small 4to. Original
holland-backed marbled boards gilt, edges a little worn, one corner bumped. Pp. vi, 89, with 102 plates. Library stamp on verso of title. [Limited
edition (950 copies)] Batsford, 1925. [16523] £150.00
392 HEMPEL, Rose. THE HEIAN CIVILIZATION OF JAPAN. Translated by Katherine Watson. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper, slipcase.
Pp. 252, with 210 illustrations (40 in colour). [First English edition] Phaidon, 1983. [28334] £45.00
393 HENDY, Anne-Marie. AMERICAN RAILROAD STOCK CERTIFICATES. Small 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 169, illustrated
throughout (and with 8 colour plates). [First edition] Stanley Gibbons, 1980. [68926] £20.00
394 HENRYWOOD, R.K. RELIEF-MOULDED JUGS 1820-1900. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 246, with 20 colour plates and 278
illustrations. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984. [69897] £60.00
395 HENZE, Anton, and FILTHAUT, Theodor. CONTEMPORARY CHURCH ART. Translated by Cecily Hastings, edited by Maurice Lavanoux.
4to. Original cloth gilt dustwrapper (a little chipped). Pp.128, illustrated throughout. A heavy erasure on the fl yleaf. New York: Sheed & Ward,
1956. [30411] £85.00
396 HETHERINGTON, A.L. CHINESE CERAMIC GLAZES. Original cloth gilt, spine faded. Pp. (viii), 114, (ii), with 14 plates. Second edition,
Cambridge University Press, 1948. [43458] £45.00
397 HEWITT, Graily. LETTERING for students and craftsmen. The New Art library series. Original decorated cloth, a few marks. Pp. 336, (viii),
with 403 illustrations. Names and address on the slightly browned fl yeaf, otherwise a very good copy of this fi ne standard work. [First edition]
Seeley, Service & Co., 1930. [69104] £35.00
398 HEWITT-BATES, J.S. BOOKBINDING. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 127, with 12 plates. Leicester: Dryad Press, 1954. [47329] £25.00
399 —— BOOKBINDING FOR SCHOOLS. A textbook for teachers and students in primary and secondary schools and training colleges.
Original cloth, dustwrapper (rubbed and torn). Pp. xi, 123, with 10 plates. Leicester: Dryad Press, 1948. [46975] £25.00
400 HIBBARD, Howard. MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN SCULPTURE from medieval to modern. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
239, with 205 plates (148 in colour). [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1977. [28302] £65.00
401 HIGGINS, Reynold. GREEK AND ROMAN JEWELLERY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xliii, 243 plus 64 pages of plates. Second
edition, Methuen, 1980. [17011] £25.00
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402 HILL, G.F. ON MEDALS. Original wrappers. Pp. 16, with 2 plates. A little spotting. Scarce. [First edition] The Civic Arts Association, 1917.
[69017] £20.00
403 HILLIER, Bevis. GREETINGS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST. Square 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 95, illustrated in colour
throughout. [First edition] The Herbert Press, 1982. [69096] £15.00
404 HINCKLEY, F.Lewis. A DIRECTORY OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE. The authentic classifi cation of European and American designs
for professionals and connoisseurs. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. xxxiv, plus 1099 illustrations. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1953. [19632] £60.00
405 HOBBS, Edward W. HOW TO MAKE CLIPPER SHIP MODELS. A practical manual dealing with every aspect of clipper ship modelling from
the simplest waterline types to fi ne scale models fi t for exhibition purposes. Original cloth gilt, spine lettering dulled. Pp. xv, 215, with 6 plates
of plans (4 extending) and 206 illustrations. [First edition] Glasgow; Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1928. [64785] £35.00
406 —— MODERN FURNITURE VENEERING. A treatise for the cabinet-maker and other interested in furniture making and restoration.
Original cloth, spotted. Pp. xi, 160, with 78 illustrations. Second edition, Technical Press, 1938. [31982] £30.00
407 HOBSON, R.L. CATALOGUE OF THE FRANK LLOYD COLLECTION OF WORCESTER PORCELAIN OF THE WALL PERIOD
presented by Mr. & Mrs.Frank Lloyd in 1921 to the Dept. of Ceramics and Ethnography in the British Museum. Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed
boards gilt, spine faded and nicked at head. Pp. xix, 96, plus 84 plates illustrating 391 items. British Museum, 1923. [20144] £45.00
408 HODGKIN, John Eliot and Edith. EXAMPLES OF EARLY ENGLISH POTTERY named, dated and inscribed. Large 4to. Original decorated
cloth, a little soiled. Pp. xix, 187, top edges gilt, with colour frontispiece and text illustrations throughout. Scarce. Privately printed limited edition
(No. 84 of 550 copies), 1881. [34331] £250.00
409 HODGSON, Willoughby (Mrs.. THE QUEST OF THE ANTIQUE. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 255, with coloured frontispiece and 63 plates.
[First edition] Herbert Jenkins, 1924. [16905] £45.00
410 HOLDER, Judith and HARDING, Alison. CHRISTMAS FARE. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 64, illustrated in colour throughout.
[First edition] Webb & Bower, 1981. [30038]
Traditional recipes illustrated with old Christmas cards.
£25.00
411 HOLGATE, David. NEW HALL AND ITS IMITATORS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. xvi, 112, plus 257 illustrations.
A fi ne copy. [First edition] Faber, 1971. [49865] £75.00
412 HOLLAND, Margaret. OLD COUNTRY SILVER. An account of English provincial silver, with sections on Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, with numerous illustrations and 3 maps. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1971. [56508] £35.00
413 HOLLISTER, Paul. GLASS PAPERWIGHTS. An old craft revived. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. vii, 33, with 8 pages of colour illustrations.
[First edition] Coupar Angus: William Culross & Son, 1975. [28370] £25.00
414 HOLMAN, H. (editor). THE BOOK OF SCHOOL HANDWORK. An encyclopaedia of educational handwork subjects, materials, tools,
organisation, etc. Written by the leading authorities on, and leading teachers of, handwork in the British Isles. 6 volumes, large 8vo. Original
blind-stamped cloth gilt, slight wear to head and foot of spines, one short tear repaired. Illustrated throughout, with over 50 plates in colour. An
excellent set. Scarce. [First edition] Caxton Publishing Company, 1913-14. [54361] £150.00
414415 HOLMES, Richard R. NAVAL & MILITARY TROPHIES. Personal relics of British heroes. A series of water colour drawings by William
Gibb [with] descriptive notes and an introduction by F-M Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B. Folio. Original blue cloth gilt over bevelled boards.
Unpaginated. All edges gilt. Complete with 36 fi ne tissue-guarded chromolithographs by Lemercier of Paris. Flyleaves a little spotted, otherwise
an excellent copy. [First edition] John C.Nimmo, 1896. [27077] £180.00
416 HOLT, Rosa Belle. RUGS. Oriental and occidental, antique and modern. A handbook for ready reference. 4to. Original pictorial cloth. Pp. 166,
with 30 plates (12 coloured) and a map. A little shaken but a very good sound copy. Chicago: A.C.McClurg & Co., 1901. [31880] £95.00
417 HOLT, Tonie and Valmai. PICTURE POSTCARD ARTISTS. Landscapes, animals and characters. Tall 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards.
Pp. 106, with 45 colour plates and over 150 black and white illustrations. [First edition] Longman, 1984. [68931] £25.00
418 HONEY, William Bowyer. DRESDEN CHINA. An introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. Original cloth gilt, spine rather faded,
extremities a little bumped or frayed. Pp. xv, 223, with 61 plates. [First edition] A.& C.Black, 1934. [58530] £30.00
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419 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 219, with colour frontispiece and 64 plates. Faber, 1954. [27871] £25.00
420 —— WEDGWOOD WARE. Faber Monographs series. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (lower panel spotted). Pp. xv, 35 with
coloured frontispiece and 96 pages of plates. Faber, 1951. [16833] £25.00
421 HOOPER, John and SHIRLEY, Alfred J. HANDCRAFT IN WOOD AND METAL. A handbook of training in their practical working for
teachers, students, & craftsmen. Tall 8vo. Original cloth, hinges a trifl e rubbed. Pp. viii, 240, 32, illustrated throughout with photographs and
drawings. Third edition, Batsford, 1928. [47182] £40.00
422 HOOPER, Luther. HAND-LOOM WEAVING PLAIN & ORNAMENTAL. Artistic Crafts series. Original cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxii, 342,
(i), with 18 plates and numerous text drawings by the author and Noel Rooke. Scattered light spotting. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1953. [38071] £30.00
423 HORNE, Herbert P. THE BINDING OF BOOKS. An essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings. Original buckram gilt, spine faded, corners
rather bumped. Pp. xiv, 224, uncut, with decorative title, 12 plates and 2 fi gures. [First edition] Kegan Paul etc., 1894. [45272] £45.00
424 HOUART, Victor. EASTER EGGS. A collector’s guide. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour and monochrome. [First
edition] Souvenir Press, 1978. [19419] £30.00
425 HOUSER, Caroline. GREEK MONUMENTAL BRONZE SCULPTURE. Small folio. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 136, illustrated in
colour and monochrome throughout. The Vendome Press, 1983. [28303] £40.00
426 HUBBARD, Frank. THREE CENTURIES OF HARPSICHORD MAKING. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine a trifl e rubbed. Pp. xvi, 373,
plus 41 plates. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. [48829] £40.00
427 HUGHES, Bernard. COLLECTING ANTIQUES. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges a little torn and frayed). Pp. 391, with 19
pages of coloured plates and 72 pages of monochrome plates. Second, enlarged, edition, Country Life, 1960. [17899] £25.00
428 —— ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH EARTHENWARE 1660-1860. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 238 with 4 coloured and 46
monochrome plates. Abbey Fine Arts, no date. [16815] £30.00
429 —— ENGLISH, SCOTTISH AND IRISH TABLE GLASS from the Sixteenth century to 1820. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(spine rather faded and chipped at the head). Pp. 410, with 310 illustrations (including colour frontispiece). [First edition] Batsford, 1956.
[41755] £65.00
430 —— HORSE BRASSES and other small items for the collector. Original cloth, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 104, with coloured
frontispiece and 42 plates. Few small tape-marks on endpapers. [First edition] Country Life, 1955. [17960] £25.00
431 —— VICTORIAN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges a little torn and chipped). Pp. 184,
with 89 illustrations. Spring Books, 1967. [17900] £20.00
432 —— and Therle. THE COLLECTOR’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ENGLISH CERAMICS. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
172, with 23 plates. Abbey Library, 1968. [34971] £25.00
433 —— —— ENGLISH PAINTED ENAMELS. Illustrated from the collections of Her Majesty Queen Mary and the Hon.Mrs.Ionides.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 156 with coloured frontispiece and 90 plates (7 in colour). [First edition] Country Life, 1951. [23174]
£40.00
434 —— —— COLLECTING MINIATURE ANTIQUES. A guide for collectors. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 184 with
8 coloured plates and 250 illustrations. [First edition] Heinemann, 1973. [16814] £25.00
435 HUGHES, Graham. THE ART OF JEWELRY. A survey of craft and creation. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 248, with 56
pages of colour plates and 160 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1972. [28336] £40.00
436 HUGHES, Therle. COTTAGE ANTIQUES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 219, with colour frontispiece and 48 plates.
[First edition] Lutterworth Press, 1967. [64514] £25.00
437 HULME, F.Edward. PLANTS, THEIR NATURAL GROWTH AND ORNAMENTAL TREATMENT. Folio. Original decorated green cloth
gilt over bevelled boards, lower corners a little worn and neatly re-cased, Pp. 71, plus 44 chromolithographed plates of plants and decoration
derived from them. Flyleaves lightly browned, otherwise an excellent copy. [First edition] Marcus Ward, 1874. [62905] £350.00
438 HUNT, J.Eric. ENGLISH AND WELSH CRUCIFIXES 670-1550. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. (viii), 92, with coloured
frontispiece and 39 plates. [First edition] S.P.C.K., 1956. [16842] £40.00
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439 HURCOMB, W.E. THE WETHERFIELD COLLECTION OF 222 CLOCKS sold on 1st May, 1928, for £30,000. 4to. Original cloth gilt, small
damp spot on upper board, a little faint fading. Pp. 96 with 229 plates. Second edition, W.E.Hurcomb, 1929. [16797] £95.00
440 HUSSEY, Christopher. CLARENCE HOUSE. The home of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh and of His
Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 136, with 66 plates (6 in colour). Fore-edge a little spotted.
[First edition] Country Life, 1949. [19425] £50.00
441 —— ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES open to the Public. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, with 389 illustrations. Third edition,
Country Life, 1957. [19633] £40.00
442 HUTCHINGS, R.S. (editor). ALPHABET. International Annual of Letterforms. Volume one, 1964 [all published]. 4to. Original vellum-effect
cloth, blind-stamped and silvered. Pp. 165, with gate-fold title in green and black (few slight ink-marks to the reverse, one fold a little torn), a
large folding facsimile and illustrations throughout in colour and monochrome. [Birmingham:] Kynoch Press, 1964. [28625] £45.00
443 HUTCHINSON, F.E. MEDIAEVAL GLASS AT ALL SOULS COLLEGE. A history and description, based upon the notes of the late
G.M.Rushforth. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a small edge tear). Pp. 67 with coloured frontispiece and 31 plates. [First edition]
Faber, 1949. [17056] £30.00
444 HUTTON, C.A. GREEK TERRACOTTA STATUETTES. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvi, 78 with 8 coloured and 36 monochrome plates.
Seeley & Co., 1899. [16180] £40.00
445 —— GREEK TERRACOTTA STATUETTES. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvi, 78, with 8 coloured and 36 monochrome plates. [First
edition] Seeley & Co., 1899. [16850] £45.00
446 HUXLEY, Gervase. TALKING OF TEA. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 104, with drawings by Acanthus. [First edition]
Thames and Hudson, 1956. [47690] £25.00
447 INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS. DEPARTMENT OF ARTS & CRAFTS PROSPECTUS. Original wrappers. Pp. 64,
with 20 plates (many in colour) and numerous illustrations. Staples rusting. Scranton, PA.: International Text book Company, no date. [52667]
£35.00
448 IRVING, Henry. FLOWERS AND PLANTS FOR DESIGNERS AND SCHOOLS. Photographed from nature, with text and notes by Edward
F.Strange. Small folio. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 96, with 106 illustrations. A little light scattered spotting. Pencilled signature of Ernest Hill,
Principal of the Bourneville School of Arts and Crafts. [First edition] Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [52887] £35.00
449 IZZARD, Sebastian (editor). ONE HUNDRED MASTERPIECES FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR.WALTER A.COMPTON. Japanese
swords, sword-fi ttings and accoutrements. Essays by William Tilley and Walter Compton II. Catalogue by Robert Haynes and D.Martin Lorber.
Folio. Full dark blue levant morocco gilt with raised bands and double lettering-pieces. Pp. 321, with 111 superb plates (57 in colour). A
handsome copy. [First edition] Christies, 1992. [33173] £250.00
450 JACKSON, Albert & DAY, David. THE ANTIQUES CARE & REPAIR HANDBOOK. How to maintain, renovate and repair practicvally
everything of value in your home. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illustrated throughout (partly in colour). [First edition] Dorling
Kindersley, 1974. [69088] £15.00
451 JACKSON, Charles James. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLISH PLATE, ecclesiastical and secular, in which the development
of form and decoration in the silver and gold work of the British Isles from the earliest known examples to the latest of the Georgian period
is delineated and described. 2 volumes, folio. Original half morocco gilt, few slight rubbed patches. Pp. xxxviii, 466; 467-1085, with colour
frontispiece, 76 photogravures and 1500 illustrations. A handsome set. [First edition] “Country Life” and Batsford, 1911. [32754] £250.00
452 JACKSON, F.Nevill (Mrs.) A HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. Dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the
mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace. With supplementary information by Ernesto Jesurum.
Small 4to. Original decorated cloth gilt over bevelled boards, spine a little dulled. Pp. xii, 246, (ii), with 19 tinted plates and over 200 text
illustrations. [First edition] L.Upcott Gill, 1900. [65094] £85.00
453 JACKSON, Frank G. LESSONS ON DECORATIVE DESIGN. An elementary text book of principles and practice. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xii,
173, with 34 plates. Prize label on pastedown. Fourth thousand, Chapman and Hall, 1894. [47775] £35.00
454 —— THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DESIGN. An advanced text-book on decorative art. being a sequel to the author’s “Lessons on
Decorative Design”. Original green cloth gilt, hinges rubbed. Pp. xv, 216, with 700 illustrations. Rather shaken. Bookplate and signature of
Ernest Hill, Principal of the Bourneville School of Arts and Crafts. [First edition] Chapman & Hall, 1894. [52886] £35.00
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455 JACKSON, Charles (Sir). ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS AND THEIR MARKS. A history of the goldsmiths and plate workers of England,
Scotland and Ireland, with over 13,000 marks reproduced in facsimile from authentic examples of plate, and tables of date-letters and other hallmarks
used in the assay offi ces of the united Kingdom. 4to. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards, boards a little marked. Pp. xvi, 748, with 8
illustrations and marks throughout. Flyleaves a little browned, but a good sound copy. Second edition, Macmillan, 1921. [18738] £85.00
456 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (trifl e used). Pp. xvi, 747, with 8 plates and illustrations of marks
throughout. Second edition, revised; Dover reprint, 1964. [16181] £45.00
457 JACQUET, Eugene, and CHAPUIS, Alfred. HISTOIRE ET TECHNIQUE DE LA MONTRE SUISSE de ses origines a nos jours. Large 4to.
Original purple cloth gilt. Pp. 270, (ii), with 40 colour plates, 188 pages of plain plates and numerous text fi gures. [First edition] Bale and Olten:
Urs Graf, 1945. [47884] £120.00
The standard work on early clock and watch making in Switzerland
458 —— TECHNIQUE AND HISTORY OF THE SWISS WATCH. Large 4to. Original cloth silvered, spine a little faded and a trifl e rucked at
the head. Pp. 270, with 46 colour plates, 190 plain plates and numerous text fi gures. Spring Books, 1970. [47883] £85.00
459 JAGGER, Cedric. THE WORLD’S GREAT CLOCKS AND WATCHES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 256, with 370
illustrations (120 in colour). [First edition] Hamlyn, 1977. [69517] £25.00
460 JAMES, Philip. EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS, from their beginnings to the year 1820. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards gilt,
extremities a trifl e worn. Pp. xviii, 153 with 65 plates. Small unobtrusive library stamps on preliminaries, plates etc. [First edition] Peter Davies,
1930. [21442] £85.00
461 JEKYLL, Gertrude. OLD ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD LIFE. Some account of cottage objects and country folk. Large 8vo. Original maroon
cloth gilt, few slights bumps to edges of the upper board. Pp. ix, 222, with 277 illustrations. Half-title and fi nal leaf a little foxed. [First edition]
Batsford, 1925. [70858] £45.00
462 —— OLD WEST SURREY. Some notes and memories. Original cloth gilt, few slight marks to spine. Pp. xx, 320, 40, with 330 illustrations
from photographs by the author. A very nice clean and sound copy of this fi ne work. [First edition] Longmans Green & Co., 1904. [56308]
£180.00
463 JENKINS, Geraint. THE CRAFT INDUSTRIES. Industrial Archaeology series, edited by L.T.C.Rolt. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. p. xxi,
128, with 29 plates and 8 text drawings. [First edition] Longman, 1972. [20964] £25.00
464 —— TRADITIONAL COUNTRY CRAFTSMEN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a trifl e darkened). Pp. xix, 236, with 185 illustrations
and 54 text fi gures/ [First edition] Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. [61829] £25.00
465 JOHN, W.D., COOMBES, G.J. & Katherine. THE NANTGARW PORCELAIN ALBUM. Square 4to. Very fi ne original full sage-green levant
morocco gilt by Period Binders of Bath, with raised bands, gilt Prince of Wales feathers motif on the upper board and spine panels, and broad
gilt-tooled dentelles. Pp. 28, with 96 fi ne coloured plates and 4 monochrome illustrations. Sepia illustration of the Nantgarw pottery on both
endpapers. Signed by W.D.John and dated August 1977 on the half-title, prospectus loosely inserted. Blank fl yleaves lightly foxed, otherwise a
magnifi cent copy of the best form of this superb work. De luxe limited edition, Newport: Ceramic Book Company, 1975. [50906] £650.00
466 JOHN, W.D. & SIMCOX, Jacqueline. ENGLISH DECORATED TRAYS (1550-1850). 4to. Original green boards gilt, foot of spine repaired.
Pp. xii, 214, with 455 illustrations (6 in colour). The standard work, covering trays in virtually all materials. [First edition (1000 copies)]
Newport: Ceramic Book Company, 1964. [42253] £85.00
467 JOHNSON, Arthur W. THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (priceclipped).
Pp. 224, with 270 illustrations (12 in colour). Still one of the best practical guides by a renowned master of his trade. [First edition]
Thames & Hudson, 1978. [68868] £85.00
468 JOHNSON, Audrey. FURNISHING DOLLS’ HOUSES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 284, with 19 plates and linedrawings
throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fl yleaf. [First edition] G.Bell & Sons, 1972. [26088] £60.00
469 JOHNSON, Derek E. COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO MILITARIA. Large 8vo. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 144, with 64 illustrations
and 9 line drawings. [First edition] William Luscombe, 1976. [68928] £15.00
470 JOHNSON, Lorraine. HOW TO RESTORE AND REPAIR PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING. Small 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
192, well illustrated. Michael Joseph, 1978. [69089] £20.00
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471 JOHNSON, Stanley C. THE MEDALS OF OUR FIGHTING MEN. Original cloth gilt, spine faded, a few faint spots. Pp. (iv), 120, with 4
coloured and 12 monochrome plates. A little light spotting in places. Second edition, A. & C.Black, 1917. [18750] £45.00
472 JOHNSTON, Edward. WRITING & ILLUMINATING, & LETTERING. The Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks edited by
W.R.Lethaby. Original two-tone cloth, hinges rather stained and cloth lightly faded. Pp. xxx, 434, with diagrams and illustrations by the author
and Noel Rooke. Pastedowns rather stained. Twenty-fi rst impression, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1945. [44325] £20.00
473 JONAS, Maurice. NOTES OF AN ART COLLECTOR. Large 8vo. Original cloth, leather spine label, a few marks. Pp. viii, 56, with 69 plates.
Routledge & Sons, 1907. [50901]
Articles on Wedgwood portraits, china, Greek coins, prints and books.
£35.00
474 JONES, E.Alfred. CATALOGUE OF THE PLATE OF CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE. Large 4to. Original plum cloth gilt. Pp. xxxvii,
88, with 27 plates. Loosely inserted is a single sheet T.l.s. from O.Thorshead (Librarian at Windsor Castle) to the author regarding a visit of the
King to see the Thistle badges in the library, Jones’s request to the King to view his own badges and the return of Sir Herbert Maxwell’s badge,
and thanking him for the article on the plate of St.George’s. [Windsor Castle, February 12th 1938]. [First edition] Cambridge: University Press,
1939. [55457] £150.00
475 —— OLD ENGLISH GOLD PLATE. Large 4to. Original crimson cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. xxiii, 88, (v), top edges gilt, with 37
plates, each with a text leaf. [First edition] Bemrose & Sons, 1907. [55459] £150.00
476 —— COCHRANE, Arthur (Sir) and NOBLE, J.H.B. (Sir). CATALOGUE OF THE PLATE OF ETON COLLEGE. Large 4to. Original
blue cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. xxi, 72, top edges gilt, uncut, with 32 plates.A little faint spotting in places. Loosely inserted are 2
single sheet T.l.s. from the Private Secretary to H.M.Queen Mary to E.A.Jones, accepting his offer of a copy of the book on behalf of the
Queen, and acknowledging its receipt, thanking the author on her behalf for the book and for ‘the charming inscription you have placed therein’.
[Marlborough House, 9th and 14th June 1938]. [First edition] The Saint Catherine Press, 1938. [55458] £250.00
477 JONES, Joan. MINTON. The fi rst two hundred years of design and production. Large square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (priceclipped).
Pp. 391, illustrated in colour throughout. Signed copy. Very scarce. [First edition] Swan Hill Press, 1993. [66729] £220.00
478 JOSLIN, E.C. THE STANDARD CATALOGUE OF BRITISH ORDERS DECORATIONS & MEDALS, with valuations. Original boards
gilt, top edges a little faded, dustwrapper (very torn). Pp. xiv, 39, (viii, index), with 70 plates (39 in colour). Third edition, Spink & Son, 1976.
[69106] £25.00
479 JOSSET, C.R. MONEY IN BRITAIN. A history of the currencies of the British Isles. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 214, with 8 plates.
[First edition] Warne, 1962. [62590] £20.00
480 JOURDAIN, Margaret. ENGLISH DECORATIVE PLASTERWORK OF THE RENAISSANCE. 4to. Original blue cloth gilt, slight mark to
the upper board. Pp. xiii, 258, with 200 illustrations. Last leaf of index lightly browned, but an excellent copy. Batsford, 1933. [54044] £150.00
481 —— OLD LACE. A handbook for collectors. An account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture. Large
8vo. Original brown cloth gilt. Pp. x, 121, top edges gilt, with 163 illustrations on 95 plates Flyleaves lightly browned and spotted, front joint a
trifl e strained. [First edition] Batsford, 1908. [65096] £40.00
482 —— REGENCY FURNITURE 1795-1820. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xv, 188, with 235 illustrations. Revised and enlarged
edition, Country Life, 1948. [19403] £75.00
483 JOYCE, Ernest. THE TECHNIQUE OF FURNITURE MAKING. Revised by Alan Peters. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. (vi), 519,
with 32 colour plates and 583 illustrations. A fi ne copy. Fourth edition, Batsford, 1987. [67550] £75.00
484 JOYCE, J. COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO MODEL RAILWAYS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little faded). Pp. 140, illustrated
throughout. [First edition] Model & Allied Publications, 1977. [64383] £20.00
485 JUSTICE, Jean. DICTIONARY OF MARKS AND MONOGRAMS OF DELFT POTTERY. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, inked library
lettering on spine and upper board, partly erased. Pp. 171, illustrated throughout. Signs of label removed from title, a few light library stamps.
[First edition] Herbert Jenkins, 1930. [16518] £95.00
486 KADUCK, John M. ADVERTISING TRADE CARDS. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 108, illustrated throughout (mostly in colour). [First
edition] DesMoines, Ohio:Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1976. [69090] £15.00
487 KAPLAN, Wendy (editor). SCOTTISH ART AND DESIGN. 5,000 years. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 200, with 215 illustrations
(95 in colour). New York: Harry N.Abrams, 1991. [61341] £25.00
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488 KEITH, Elmer. SIX GUNS. The standard reference work. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper (few slight edge-chips). Pp. 335,
illustrated throughout. New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. [70736] £60.00
489 KELLY, Alison. THE BOOK OF ENGLISH FIREPLACES. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 96, with 112
illustrations. [First edition] Country Life Books, 1968. [61868] £15.00
490 —— THE STORY OF WEDGWOOD. Compiled in association with Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 91 plus coloured frontispiece and 62 plates. Faber, 1975. [16816] £30.00
491 KENDRICK, A.F. and TATTERSALL, C.E.C. HAND-WOVEN CARPETS, ORIENTAL & EUROPEAN. 2 volumes, 4to. Original cloth gilt
over bevelled boards, few slight marks to some lower corners and edges. Pp. xi, 198; xi, 205 (plates, 19 in colour). An excellent set. [Limited
edition (No.597 of 1000 sets)] Benn Brothers, 1922. [57031] £375.00
492 KENNY, John B. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF POTTERY MAKING. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. xii, 242, with
4 pages of colour plates, 19 series of monochrome illustrations and 350 text drawings. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1962. [38037] £25.00
493 KENT, J.P.C. & PAINTER, K.S. (editors). WEALTH OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Gold and silver AD 300-700. Large 8vo. Original
wrappers, few slight marks. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout (with 10 pages in colour). [First softback edition] British Museum, 1977. [68850]
£25.00
494 KEYSER, P.de (Dr.) ARS FOLKLORICA BELGICA. 2 - Noord en zuid Nederlandse Volkskunst. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(a little worn and defective). Pp. 267, illustrated throughout. Text in Dutch. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1956. [57514] £35.00
495 KIDSON, Joseph R. and Frank. HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE LEEDS OLD POTTERY [with a description of its wares: together with
brief accounts of contemporary potteries in the immediate vicinity, hitherto un-noticed.] With a new introduction by Peter Walton. Tall 8vo.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. viii, 161, with 21 plates. [Facsimile edition] S.R.Publishers and The Connoisseurs, 1970.
[35176] £45.00
496 KING, C.W. HANDBOOK OF ENGRAVED GEMS. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. ix, 287, with folding frontispiece and 87 plates. Foreedge
of 1 leaf of index a little chipped. Second edition, George Bell & Sons, 1885. [28036] £120.00
497 —— THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GEMS OR DECORATIVE STONES. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. xii, 377, with
frontispiece and a few text illustrations. Scattered spotting. [First edition] Bell & Daldy, 1867. [28070] £75.00
498 KING, Gerald M. ALICE THROUGH THE PILLAR-BOX and what she found there. A philatelic phantasy (with a little assistance from Lewis
Carroll and Sir John Tenniel). Small square 4to. Original cloth gilt, bound album-style, dustwrapper. Pp. 38, illustrated in colour throughout.
[First edition] Whizzard Press, 1978. [47700] £25.00
499 KLAMKIN, Marian. THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF BOXES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 145, illustrated throughout by Charles
Klamkin. David & Charles, 1981. [69870] £15.00
500 KLENKE, William W. ART AND EDUCATION IN WOOD-TURNING. A textbook and problem book for the use of students. Original cloth, a
few spots. Pp. 110, with 64 illustrations. Few spots to endpapers, stamp of East Dean Grammar School, Cinderford, on pastedown. [First edition]
Illinois: Manual Arts Press, 1921. [37667]
[Abell, Leggatt & Ogden (2nd ed. 1956): 170]. A useful manual for the hand turner.
£25.00
501 KNIGHT, F. VASES AND ORNAMENTS designed for the use of architects, silversmiths, jewellers, modellers, chasers, die sinkers, founders,
carvers, and all ornamental manufacturers. 4to. Modern half morocco gilt. Pp. 4, with engraved title and 46 [ex 49] engraved plates. Some dampstaining
or spotting. F.Knight, T.Griffi ths and G.Linnecar, no date [1833]. [45170] £220.00
502 KNOWLES, John A. ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE YORK SCHOOL OF GLASS-PAINTING. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xv, 268,
with 63 plates and 79 text fi gures. [First edition] S.P.C.K., 1936. [19617] £75.00
503 KOTOV, V. & TAKTASHOVA, L. THE STATE MUSEUM OF PALEKH ART. 4to. Original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, card
slip-case (rather worn). Pp. 41, plus 160 fi ne colour plates of black lacquer ware etc. Text in Russian and English. [First edition] Moscow:
“Isobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo”, 1975. [28323] £75.00
504 KOVEL, Ralph & Terry. THE KOVELS’ PRICE GUIDE FOR COLLECTOR PLATES, FIGURINES, PAPERWEIGHTS, and other limited
editions. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper. Pp. xxiv, 200, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] New York, Crown
Publishers, 1978. [17969] £30.00
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505 KUNZ, George Frederick. THE MAGIC OF JEWELS AND CHARMS. Large 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, signed decorative binding by
Edward Stratton Holloway (1859-1939) who designed many covers for Lippincott between 1894 and 1925, signed with his monogram “H”,
extremities minimally rubbed. Pp. xv, 422, top edges gilt, with 90 plates in colour, double-tone and line. An excellent copy. Presentation copy,
with a large inscription by the author on the fl yleaf to John Patrick Mitchell, signed and dated New York City, 15 November 1919. [First edition]
J.B.Lippincott Company, 1915. [39204]
Bookplate of Ernest Hayden Bartlett. A fi ne work, which deals with the ethnological, historical and legendary aspects of all types of
stones including meteorites, fossils, electric stones, etc.
£275.00
506 KURZ, Otto. FAKES. A handbook for collectors and students. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 328, plus 95 illustrations. {First edition]
Faber, 1948. [19597] £35.00
507 LABARTE, M.Jules. HANDBOOK OF THE ARTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, as applied to the decoration of furniture,
arms, jewels, &c. &c. Translated from the French. Old half calf gilt with raised bands, spine label and marbled boards. Pp. xxxvi, 443, with 200
fi nely engraved text illustrations. All edges marbled. Flyleaves spotted. [First edition] John Murray, 1855. [18793] £95.00
508 LACEY, John L. THE AUDUBON BOOK OF BIRD CARVING. As told to Tom Moore McBride. Original cloth, dustwrapper (top edges a
little worn). Pp. vii, 124, well illustrated. McGraw-Hill, 1951. [58119] £25.00
509 LACEY, Robert. SOTHEBY’S. Bidding for class. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 356, illustrated. [First UK edition] Little, Brown
& Co., 1998. [65784] £25.00
510 LAING, J.J. A MANUAL OF ILLUMINATION on paper and vellum. Bound with: - A COMPANION TO THE MANUAL OF
ILLUMINATION. Containing borders, capitals, texts and detail fi nishings, &c. 2 volumes in 1. Library cloth gilt. Pp. 100, 6 with 28 plates and
a frontispiece. Some tears repaired, a little hand-colouring on a few plates; numerous marginal blind stamps, accession stamp on verso of title.
Eighth edition, Winsor & Newton, no date. [23176] £25.00
511 LAKE, Kenneth R. INVESTING IN PAPER MONEY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (front fl ap taped to endpapers). Pp, 158, with 16
illustrations. Library stamps scribbled over on the title. [First edition] Pelham Books, 1972. [68934] £15.00
512 LAMB, C.M. (editor). THE CALLIGRAPHER’S HANDBOOK. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 252 with 50 plates. Endpapers a little
browned. [First edition] Faber, 1956. [16962] £25.00
513 LAMBERT, Margaret and MARX, Enid. ENGLISH POPULAR ART. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper by Enid Marx (a little worn). Pp. viii,
120, with 8 coloured plates by Marx, 56 plates and numerous text illustrations. Few spots to back of frontispiece. [First edition] Batsford, 1951.
[20773] £25.00
514 LAMBETH, Mirnie. THE GOLDEN DOLLY. The art, mystery and history of corn dollies through the ages. Describing all types and how to
make them. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 92, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Cambridge: Cornucopia Press, 1963. [57205] £40.00
515 —— A NEW GOLDEN DOLLY. The art, mystery and history of corn dollies through the ages. Describing all types and how to make them.
Large 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, a trifl e marked. Pp. 118, illustrated throughout. 2 T.l.s. from the author to Mary and Nigel Hudleston
loosely inserted, together with some related ephemera. Cambridge: Cornucopia Press, 1966. [57567] £45.00
516 —— STRAW CRAFT. More golden dollies. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 72, with 80 illustrations. John Baker, 1975.
[57274] £15.00
517 LAMBTON, Lucinda. TEMPLES OF CONVENIENCE. Large square 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 12, plus 112 colour plates. Gordon Fraser,
1978. [70660] £20.00
518 LAMERTON, L.C. ORIENTAL CARPETS. Price list. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. (viii), ix, with 3 illustrations and a map. T.l.s. from
Lamertons loosely inserted. L.C.Lamerton Ltd., 1949. [42153] £30.00
519 LANE, Arthur. GREEK POTTERY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little faded, edges chipped). Pp. xv, 62, plus 100 plates (4 in colour).
[First edition] Faber, 1948. [44337] £30.00
520 LAUFER, Berthold. ARCHAIC CHINESE JADES collected in China by A.W.Bahr. Now in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Large
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards gilt. Pp. 51, plus 36 plates (3 coloured). Large inscription on fl yleaf, otherwise a very nice copy. Scarce. New
York: privately printed, 1927. [20145] £120.00
521 —— JADE. A study in Chinese archaeology and religion. The Mrs.T.B.Blackstone expedition. Publication 154, anthropological series
Vol.X. Large 8vo. Original black cloth gilt. Pp. xiv, 370, top edges gilt, with 68 plates (6 coloured) and 204 text fi gures. Chicago: Field Museum
of Natural History, 1912. [70080]
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522 LAUGHTON, L.G.Carr. OLD SHIP FIGURE-HEADS & STERNS. with which are associated galleries, hanging-pieces, catheads and divers
other matters that concern the “grace and countenance” of old sailing-ships. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards, lower edges a
trifl e rubbed. Pp. xv, 281, plus 55 plates (8 in colour, tipped-in), top edges gilt. [First limited edition (No 10 of 1500 copies)] Halton & Truscott
Smith, 1925. [22984] £375.00
523 LAWRENCE, Heather. YORKSHIRE POTS AND POTTERIES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 294, with 30 plates and 18 text
illustrations. A fi ne copy. Scarce. [First edition] David & Charles 1974. [34156] £65.00
524 LAWSON, Andrew. HANDMADE IN LONDON. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. (viii), 142, well illustrated. [First edition]
Cassell, 1978. [63925] £25.00
525 LEA, Zilla Rider (editor). THE ORNAMENTED TRAY. Two centuries of ornamented trays (1720-1920). A publication of The Historical
Society of Early American Decoration, Inc., based on Esther Stevens Brazer’s photographic collection. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(price-clipped, spine faded, a tear to lower panel repaired). Pp. 255, with 7 colour plates and over 500 illustrations. New endpapers. [First
edition] Vermont: Charles E.Tuttle Co., 1971. [42256] £75.00
526 LEISINGER, Hermann. ROMANESQUE BRONZES. Church portals in mediaeval Europe. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little
creased and chipped). Pp. (xii), plus 160 superb plates. [First English edition] Phoenix House, 1956. [18983] £75.00
527 LELAND, Charles G. & HOLTZAPFFEL, John J.. WOOD CARVING. Original decorated boards, corners rather rounded, neatly rebacked
in matching cloth gilt. Pp. x, 162, with 6 plates and text woodcuts throughout. Third edition, Whittaker & Co., 1894. [56355] £60.00
528 LESIEUTRE, Alain. THE SPIRIT AND SPLENDOUR OF ART DECO. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 304, with 16 pages of colour
plates and 285 illustrations. [First English edition] New Jersey: Castle Books, 1974. [30691] £75.00
529 LESLEY, Parker. RENAISSANCE JEWELS AND JEWELED OBJECTS from the Melvin Gutman collection. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 194,
with colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations of 70 items. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1968. [28338] £40.00
530 LEWIS, A.W. BASIC BOOKBINDING. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather used and spotted). Pp. xi, 147, with 11 plates and 127 text
fi gures. Endpapers lightly spotted. [First edition] Batsford, 1952. [46978] £25.00
531 —— —— another edition. Original wrappers. Pp. 144, illustrated. New York: Dover Publications, no date [c.1980]. [69054] £15.00
532 LEWIS, C.T.Courtney. GEORGE BAXTER (COLOUR PRINTER). His life and work. A manual for collectors. Original blue cloth gilt. Pp.
xviii, 276, top edges gilt, with 32 plates. Endpapers a little browned and soiled, library stamp to fi nal leaf of text. [First edition] Sampson Low,
Marston & Co., 1908. [43691] £45.00
533 LEWIS, Griselda. A COLLECTOR’S HISTORY OF ENGLISH POTTERY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, with 411 illustrations.
Second edition, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977. [34136] £30.00
534 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 360, with 762 illustrations (62 in colour). Enlarged edition, Antique
Collectors’ Club, 1985. [55767] £45.00
535 LEWIS, John. COLLECTING PRINTED EPHEMERA. A background to social habits and social history to eating and drinking to travel and
heritage. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, illustrated throughout and with 18 colour plates. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1976.
[28089] £45.00
536 —— THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BOOK. Its illustration and design. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 270, illustrated throughout
(partly in colour). [First edition] Studio Vista, 1967. [45422] £50.00
537 LEWIS, John and Griselda. PRATT WARE. English and Scottish relief decorated and underglaze coloured earthenware 1780-1840. 4to.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 304, with 577 illustrations (68 in colour). A fi ne copy. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984.
[34173] £85.00
538 LIDDELL, Donald M. CHESSMEN. 4to. Original cloth gilt, a little marked and faded at edges. Pp. xii, 171 with 97 illustrations. Library label
and a few stamps. Harrap, 1938. [16539]
A comprehensive work with a useful bibliography.
£85.00
539 LINDSAY, Seymour. IRON AND BRASS IMPLEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH HOUSE. Introduction by Ralph Edwards. 4to. Original black
cloth. Pp. 88, with 473 illustrations. Revised edition, Alec Tiranti, 1964. [70519] £30.00
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540 LINNELL, C.L.S. (Rev.) EAST ANGLIAN CHALICE BRASSES. Reprinted from Monumental Brass Soc.Trans. Vol.VIII, part VIII. Original
wrappers. Pp. 356-365, with 3 illustrations in the text. Presentation copy. The Society, 1951. [19107] £20.00
541 LISTER, Ronald. ANTIQUE FIREARMS. Their care, repair and restoration. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. 220, with 66
illustrations. Herbert Jenkins, 1969. [70763] £25.00
542 LITCHFIELD, Frederick. ANTIQUES GENUINE AND SPURIOUS. An art expert’s recollections and cautions. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii,
277, untrimmed, with coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. [First edition] Bell & Sons, 1921. [16183] £30.00
543 —— ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FURNITURE: from the earliest to the present time. p.xx, 280, profusely illustrated. Front joint
tender.4to. Original cloth gilt, bevelled boards, top edge gilt. Third edition, 1893. [16184] £35.00
544 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. xviii, 459, profusely illustrated. Seventh edition Truslove
& Shirley, 1922. [46893] £65.00
545 —— POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. A guide to collectors. Small 4to. Original ribbed decorated cloth gilt over bevelled boards, neatly
re-cased. Pp. xv, 362, with 7 coloured plates, 150 illustrations and marks and monograms of all the important makers. [First edition] Truslove,
Hanson & Comba, 1900. [54490] £40.00
546 LITTLE, W.L. STAFFORDSHIRE BLUE. Underglaze blue transfer-printed earthenware. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160,
plus 119 illustrations. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Batsford, 1969. [34142] £45.00
547 LLOYD, H.Alan. SOME OUTSTANDING CLOCKS OVER SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS 1250-1950. 4to. Original brown reversed calf
gilt, remains of glassine dustwrapper. Pp. xx, 333, with frontispiece, 173 plates and 42 text fi gures. [Limited edition (No.381 of 1000 copies)]
Antiques Collectors’ Club, 1981. [43175] £85.00
548 LOCKETT, Terence A. COLLECTING VICTORIAN TILES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 239, with 10 colour plates, 401 illustrations
on 70 plates and 67 text illustrations. [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 1979. [70662] £20.00
549 —— DAVENPORT POTTERY AND PORCELAIN 1794-1887. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 112, with colour frontispiece,
103 illustrations and a page of marks. Scarce. [First edition] David & Charles, 1972. [69930] £180.00
550 —— & GODDEN, Geoffrey A. DAVENPORT. China, earthenware & glass 1794-1887. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 302,
with over 300 illustrations (including 30 colour plates). [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1989. [69909] £180.00
551 LONGMAN, W. TOKENS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY connected with booksellers & bookmakers (authors, printers, publishers,
engravers and paper makers). Original blue cloth gilt. Pp. 90, with 14 plates. [Limited facsimile edition (No.269 of 299 copies)] Detroit: Gale
Research Company, 1970. [62771] £30.00
552 LONSDALE, Henry. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MUSGRAVE LEWTHWAITE WATSON, sculptor. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt over
bevelled boards, rubbed and damp-stained. Pp. xii, 244, all edges gilt, with 12 photographic plates. Very scarce. [First edition] George Routledge,
1866. [27052]
Not in Gernsheim.
£140.00
553 LOOMES, Brian. ANTIQUE BRITISH CLOCKS. A buyer’s guide. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, well illustrated. Signed copy.
Robert Hale, 1996. [69522] £20.00
554 —— COMPLETE BRITISH CLOCKS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256 with 92 plates Signed copy. Bracken Books, 1978.
[69523] £15.00
555 —— WESTMORLAND CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little faded). Pp. 120, with 16 plates and
3 line drawings. Scarce. [First edition] David & Charles, 1974. [58575] £40.00
556 —— WHITE DIAL CLOCKS. The complete guide. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 268, with 91 illustrations. [First edition] David &
Charles, 1981. [69532] £40.00
557 —— YORKSHIRE CLOCKMAKERS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 196, (ix, index by towns), with 53 illustrations.
Signed copy. Littleborough: George Kelsall, 1985. [69521] £25.00
558 LORANT, Tessa. KNITTED QUILTS & FLOUNCES. Original wrappers. Pp.64, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Wells: Thorn Press,
1982. [65100] £20.00
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559 LORING, Rosamond B. DECORATED BOOK PAPERS. Being an account of their designs and fashions. Edited by Philip Hofer. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. xxxv, 171, with 16 tinted plates. Third edition, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1973.
[68882] £35.00
560 LOWE, Robson. THE BRITISH POSTAGE STAMP. Being the history of the nineteenth century postage stamps based on the collection
presented to the Nation by Reginald M.Phillips of Brighton. 4to. Original cloth gilt, edges a little faded, dustwrapper (few tape-marks to the
reverse). Pp. viii, 272, with 32 pages of colour plates and monochrome illustrations throughout. [First edition] National Postal Museum, 1968.
[45706] £35.00
561 LUCIE-SMITH, Edward. SCULPTURE SINCE 1945. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, with 228 illustrations (32 in colour).
[First edition] Phaidon, 1987. [28340] £30.00
562 LUGS, Jaroslav. FIREARMS PAST AND PRESENT. A complete review of fi rearm systems and their histories. 2 volumes large 8vo. Original
red cloth gilt, acetate dustwrappers, pictorial slip-case. Pp. 717; 1104 plates. A fi ne set. [First English edition] Grenville, 1973. [70799] £95.00
563 LUXTON, Elsie. THE TECHNIQUE OF HONITON LACE. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 168, illustrated throughout. [First
edition] Batsford, 1979. [47076] £20.00
564 LYNAM, Edward. BRITISH MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS. Britain in Pictures series. Original boards, matching dustwrapper (old tape on edges
of wrapper and boards). Pp. 48, with 8 colour plates and 22 other illustrations. Endpapers lightly spotted. William Collins, 1944. [62169] £15.00
565 McALLISTER, Isabel. ALFRED GILBERT. Thick 4to. Original decorated boards, dustwrapper (torn, with some loss). Pp. xii, 236, with
frontispiece and 40 plates. Slight foxing to half-title and front fl yleaves. [First edition] A.& C.Black, 1929. [23128] £45.00
566 McCAUSLAND, Hugh. SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. Original cloth gilt. Pp. viii, 144 with frontispiece and 12 plates. [First edition]
Batchworth Press, 1951. [16844] £25.00
567 McCLINTON, Katharine Morrison. CHRISTIAN CHURCH ART THROUGH THE AGES. The glory of Christian art: sculpture, architecture,
mosaics, murals, vestments, altar ware, stained glass windows. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather worn, price-clipped). Pp. xvi, 160, with
over 90 illustrations. [First edition] New York: Macmillan, 1962. [47393] £25.00
568 McDONALD, Ian. THE BOER WAR IN POSTCARDS. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper. Pp. xii, 179, well illustrated
(8 pages in colour). Wrens Park Publishing, 2001. [69352] £15.00
569 MACDONALD-TAYLOR, Margaret (editor). A DICTIONARY OF MARKS. Metalwork, Furniture, Ceramics. Introduction by L.G.G.Ramsey.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 318, illustrated throughout. Connoisseur, 1967. [34873] £20.00
570 MACKAY, James. THE PRICE GUIDE TO COLLECTABLE ANTIQUES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (an edge tear). Pp. 590, illustrated
throughout. Price guide revision lists for 1980, 1982 and 1983 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Chancery House Publishing, 1975.
[34163] £30.00
571 —— THE PRICE GUIDE TO MORE COLLECTABLE ANTIQUES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 390, illustrated throughout. Price
revision list for 1983 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980. [34188] £30.00
572 MACKENNA, F.S. 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PORCELAIN. (Notes on various aspects of collecting). 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(price-clipped). Pp. xviii, 69, plus 102 illustrations. [Limited edition (600 copies)] Leigh-on-Sea: F.Lewis, 1970. [20146] £45.00
573 —— THE F.S.MACKENNA COLLECTION OF ENGLISH PORCELAIN. Part 1. Chelsea 1743-1758. 4to. Original buckram gilt. Pp. 186,
with 94 plates. [Limited edition (500 copies), Leigh-on-Sea: F.Lewis, 1972. [20147] £75.00
574 MACKENZIE, Compton. SUBLIME TOBACCO. Original cloth gilt. Pp. (viii), 352, with 8 plates. [First edition] Chatto & Windus, 1957.
[40971] £30.00
575 MACKINTOSH, Sir Harold. EARLY ENGLISH FIGURE POTTERY. A collection of Ralph Wood and contemporary pottery, collected and
described. With an introduction by Lt.Col.G.W.Horsfi eld. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little soiled and chipped). Pp. xvii, 123, with
coloured frontispiece and 15 pages of plates. Signed by the author on the fl yleaf and dated Xmas 1938. [First edition] Chapman & Hall, 1938.
[18089] £180.00
576 MACKLIN, Herbert W. THE BRASSES OF ENGLAND. The Antiquary’s Books series. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine faded. Pp. xx, 336
with 85 illustrations. Second edition, Methuen, 1907. [18050] £30.00
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577 McKNIGHT, Hugh. WATERWAYS POSTCARDS 1900-1930 Tall 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 96, illustrated (partly in colour). [First edition]
Shepperton Swan, 1983. [59432] £20.00
578 McLEAN, Ruari. THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 216, illustrated throughout,
partly in two colours. Thames and Hudson, 1980. [54818] £25.00
579 MACMULLAN, Kay (editor). COCA-COLA MEMORABILIA. The Collector’s Corner series. Square 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards,
matching dustwrapper. Pp. 64, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Quantum Books, 1999. [63875] £25.00
560 MACQUOID, Percy. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE. Including the age of oak, the age of walnut, the age of mahogany, the age of
satinwood. Small folio. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 416, with 900 photographs (60 in full colour). Bracken Books, 1988. [19427]
£60.00
561 MALMER, Brita. KING CANUTE’S COINAGE IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES. The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern
Studies delivered at University College London 30 May 1972. Tall 8vo. Original printed pink wrappers. Pp. 2, with colour frontispiece, 2 plates
and 5 text fi gures. Viking Society for Northern Research for The College, 1972. [59277] £25.00
562 MANKOWITZ, Wolf. MAKE ME AN OFFER. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 108, illustrated by Leonard Rosoman. Presentation copy, with
a nice inscription by the author on the fl yleaf dated Xmas ‘52. Deutsch, 1952. [50989] £45.00
563 —— THE PORTLAND VASE AND THE WEDGWOOD COPIES. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, upper board a little faded. Pp. 87, with
25 plates. [First edition] Deutsch, 1952. [55605] £30.00
564 —— WEDGWOOD. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges rather worn and torn). Pp. xx, 284, with 124 plates (8 in colour). Upper
joint strained. Spring Books, 1966. [26373] £65.00
565 MANN, Kathleen. CHINA DECORATION. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 47, with coloured frontispiece and 6 plates. Third impression,
Adam and Charles Black, 1961. [41655]
A practical treatise fi rst published in 1952, the style of designs suggested being very much of the “Festival of Britain” period.
£25.00
566 —— PEASANT COSTUME IN EUROPE. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 191, with 16 coloured plates and 136 pages of
drawings. [First combined edition] Adam and Charles Black, 1950. [16907] £35.00
Originally published as two separate works in 1931 and 1936.
567 MANNHEIM, Charles. THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR.CHARLES MANNHEIM. Art objects; pottery, ivories, enamels, ... jewellery,
bronzes, sculpture, glass. 4to. Full vellum gilt, slightly soiled. Pp.55, with 38 full-page plates, uncut. Marbled endpapers. Scarce. Paris, 1910.
[16188] £35.00
568 MARRIAGE, Margaret and Ernest. THE SCULPTURES OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL. Text in English and French. Original cloth gilt,
spine a little faded. Pp. xv, 270, with 120 plates. Cambridge University Press, 1909. [17062] £35.00
569 MARRYAT, Joseph. COLLECTIONS TOWARDS A HISTORY OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, IN THE 15th [TO] 18th CENTURIES:
with a description of the manufacture, a glossary, and a list of monograms. Contemporary full polished calf gilt, the spine with raised bands,
heavily gilt panels and contrasting lettering-piece, a trifl e rubbed. Pp. xxiii, 381, all edges gilt, complete with 11 coloured plates. [First edition]
John Murray, 1850. [53515] £120.00
570 —— —— another copy. Modern cloth gilt. Pp.xxiii, 381, complete with 11 coloured plates. [First edition] John Murray, 1850.
[16165] £75.00
571 MARSHALL COLLECTION: ARMORIAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN OF THE FIRST PERIOD. Specimens from the Marshall Collection
in the Ashmolean Museum and other sources. Small 4to. Original wrappers, a trifl e soiled. Unpaginated. 4 tipped-in tissue-guarded coloured
plates illustrating 24 arms, with 5 pages of text. Percy, Lund Humphries, 1964. [18172] £20.00
572 MARSHALL, H.Rissik. COLOURED WORCESTER PORCELAIN of the fi rst period (1751-1783). 4to. Original cloth gilt, heavy glassine
dustwrapper. Pp. 305, top edges gilt, with 31 colour and 55 monochrome plates. [Limited edition (1200 copies)] Newport, Mon.: Ceramic Book
Co., 1954. [27742] £180.00
573 MARYON, Herbert. METALWORK AND ENAMELLING. A practical treatise on gold and silversmith’s work and their allied crafts. Original
cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, 327, with 333 line drawings by Cyril Pearce, and other illustrations. Faint stamp on title. Second edition, Chapman and Hall,
1923. [41695] £35.00
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574 MASATOSHI. THE ART OF NETSUKE CARVING. As told to Raymond Bushell. 4to. Original cloth gilt, glazed pictorial slip-case. Pp. 236,
with 356 colour illustrations. A fi ne copy. [First US edition] New York: Weatherhill, 1992. [62875] £75.00
575 MASKELL, Alfred. IVORIES. “Connoisseur’s Library” series. Large thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a little worn and marked. Pp. xiii, 443 with
88 plates. [First edition] Methuen & Co., 1905. [23178] £85.00
576 MASON, Rupert. ROBES OF THESPIS. Costum designs by modern artists. Edited by George Sheringham and R.Boyd Morrison. Large 4to.
Original blue cloth gilt extra, dustwrapper (rather worn and sometime folded, lower edges defective in places). Pp. xv, 143, with 109 tissueguarded
plates (45 in colour). [First edition] Ernest Benn, 1928. [54019] £180.00
577 MASSÉ, H.J.L.J. CHATS ON OLD PEWTER 4to. Original cloth silvered. Pp. 422, with 91 illustrations. [First edition] T.Fisher Unwin, 1911.
[34169] £45.00
578 —— PEWTER PLATE. A historical and descriptive handbook. 4to. Original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed. Pp. xxi, 299, with some 100
illustrations. [First edition] George Bell and Sons, 1904. [23127] £35.00
579 MATTHEWS, Leslie G. ANTIQUES OF THE PHARMACY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. xiv, 120, with 89 illustrations.
Scarce. [First edition] G.Bell & Sons, 1971. [55062] £85.00
580 MATTHEWS, Roy T. & MELLINI, Peter. IN ‘VANITY FAIR’. Tall 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 275, with colour frontispiece
and numerous illustrations. Quiller Press, 2000. [66727] £30.00
581 MAYOR, Susay. COLLECTING FANS. Christies South Kensington Collectors Series. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 120,
illustrated in colour and monochrome. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1980. [47053] £30.00
582 MENZHAUSEN, Ingelore. EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN IN DRESDEN. Large square 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper, slip-case. Pp.
212, with 175 superb colour plates. Text in English. Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1990. [58477] £50.00
583 MERCER, Vaudrey. JOHN ARNOLD & SON, chronometer makers 1762-1843. Introduction by Anthony Randall. 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (edges a trifl e chipped). Pp. xii, 320, with 218 plates, supplement and appendices. Scarce. [First edition] Antiquarian Horological
Society, 1972-5. [47993] £180.00
584 MESSENGER, Michael. COALPORT 1795-1926. An introduction to the history and porcelains of John Rose and Company. Large 4to.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 444, with 44 colour plates, 362 text plates, plus genealogies and illustrations of marks. A fi ne copy. [First
edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1995. [54407] £50.00
585 MIALL, Agnes M. THE EVERYDAY EMBROIDERY BOOK. Original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. x, 206, with 101
illustrations. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1945. [48696] £20.00
586 MIDDLEMAS, Keith. ANTIQUE COLOURED GLASS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 120, illustrated in colour throughout.
Ferndale editions, 1979. [28371] £25.00
587 —— CONTINENTAL COLOURED GLASS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. 120, with 96 pages of coloured plates.
Ex-library. with usual stamps. Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. [23095] £25.00
588 MIDDLETON, Bernard C. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE. Foreword by Howard M.Nixon. Tall
8vo. Original coarse-weave cloth gilt, acetate dustwrapper. Pp. xv, 326, with 11 plates and 97 line drawings in the text. A fi ne copy. Second
supplemented edition, The Holland Press, 1978. [68879] £65.00
589 MIDDLETON, J.Henry. THE ENGRAVED GEMS OF CLASSICAL TIMES. With a catalogue of the gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Large
8vo. Original black buckram gilt, a trifl e rubbed. Pp. xvi, 157, xxxvi, (i), with 2 plates in the appendix. Armorial library bookplate on pastedown,
stamp erased from title. [First edition] Cambridge: University Press, 1891. [21144] £75.00
590 MIJER, Pieter. BATIKS, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. Original cloth gilt, spine lettering faded.. Pp. xii, 86 with 24 illustrations. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1928. [16845] £20.00
591 MILLER, Philip & BERTHOUD, Michael. AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH TEAPOTS. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxii,
386, with 16 text illustrations and 2268 plates. [First edition] Broseley: Micawber Publications, 1985. [69887] £65.00
592 MINCOFF, Elizabeth and MARRIAGE, Margaret S. PILLOW LACE. A practical hand-book. Original cloth. Pp. xii, 232, with 91 illustrations
and 50 patterns in the text. Scarce. [First edition] John Murray, 1907. [27793] £75.00
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593 MINNS, J.E. MODEL RAILWAY ENGINES. Pleasures and treasures. Large square 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, dustwrapper (a little torn). Pp.
120, illustrated throughout. A little light spotting. [First edition] Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. [50377] £25.00
594 MINTER, Davide C. (editor). MODERN NEEDLECRAFT. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xii, 259, with 20 plates (4 in colour) and text
illustrations and diagrams throughout. Blackie, 1934. [41767] £30.00
595 MIURA, Einen. THE ART OF MARBLED PAPER. Marbled patterns and how to make them. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 152,
illustrated in colour throughout. [First English edition] Zaehnsdorf, 1988. [61345] £45.00
596 MOLESWORTH, H.D. SCULPTURE IN ENGLAND: mediaeval. 4to. Original wrappers, dustwrapper. Pp. 19, with 56 plates. [First edition]
The British Council, 1951. [19018] £15.00
597 MOLESWORTH, H.D. and KENWORTHY-BROWNE, John. MEISTERWERKE DER MÖBELKUNST AUS DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN.
Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 328, with 544 coloured illustrations. München: Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, 1972. [26411]
£30.00
First published in 1969 as “Three Centuries of Furniture”.
598 MOLLO, Andrew, and SMITH, Digby. WORLD ARMY UNIFORMS SINCE 1939. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 165, with 531
illustrations (399 in colour). Poole: New Orchard Editions, 1986. [47326] £25.00
599 MONAHAN, Valerie. COLLECTING POSTCARDS IN COLOUR 1894-1914; 1914-1930. 2 volumes, original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
212; 176, each volume with 192 illustrations (144 in colour). [First editions] Poole: Blandford Press, 1978-80. [68932] £50.00
600 MONDFELD, Wolfram zu. HISTORIC SHIP MODELS. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 352, illustrated throughout. [First
English edition] Argus Books, 1985. [64812] £40.00
601 MONSON-FITZJOHN, G.J. DRINKING VESSELS OF BYGONE DAYS from the neolithic age to the Georgian period. Square 8vo. Original
cloth, spine faded, 25 mm. tear to the head. Pp. 144, (iv), illustrated by Harry Howard, Alec Balch & others. Scarce. [First edition] Herbert
Jenkins, 1927. [23895] £35.00
602 MOODY, A.Penderell. DEVON PILLOW LACE: its history and how to make it. Assisted in the instructions by A.E.Tompkins. Original blue
cloth gilt. Pp. 160, with 18 plates. [First edition] Cassell, 1907. [65097]
Attractive pictorial bookplate of Leslie & Betsy Forward, 2nd August 1947.
£75.00
603 MOORE, Andrew. THEO FABERGÉ AND THE ST.PETERSBURG COLLECTION. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 161, illustrated
in colour throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed on the fl yleaf by Theo Fabergé. [First edition] Dauphin Publishing, 1989. [32878] £35.00
604 MOORE, N.Hudson. THE OLD CLOCK BOOK. Origina brown cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 339, with 104 illustrations. New York: Tudor Publishing
Company, 1936. [52942] £30.00
605 —— OLD GLASS, European and American. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (torn and defective), slip-case (a little worn and defective).
Pp. xvi, 394, with 223 illustrations. New York: Tudor Publishing, 1938. [47703] £25.00
606 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt, a trifl e scratched. Pp. xvi, 394, with 265 illustrations. New York: Tudor Publishing, 1946.
[19488] £30.00
607 MOORE, Steven and ROSS, Catherine. MALING. The trademark of excellence. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 97, illustrated throughout, partly
in colour. Revised edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne & Wear Museums, 1992. [61484] £25.00
608 MORRIS, Barbara. LIBERTY DESIGN 1874-1914. Sqare 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout. [First
edition] Pyramid Books, 1989. [63864] £25.00
609 MORSE, Frances Clary. FURNITURE OF THE OLDEN TIME. Original ribbed cloth gilt, slightly rubbed. Pp. xvii, 371 with 296 illustrations.
Upper joint cracking. New York: Macmillan, 1905. [16823] £30.00
610 MORTENSEN, Otto. JENS OLSEN’S CLOCK. A technical description. 4to. Original decorated boards, dustwrapper(a trifl e used). Pp. 159,
with 83 illustrations, 1 with overlay. [First edition] Copenhagen: Technological Institute, 1957. [47882] £75.00
611 MOSS, Hugh. CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE RT.HON.THE MARQUESS OF EXETER. Chinese
Snuff Bottles: 6. Original brown cloth gilt with pictorial onlay. Pp. xx, 162, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] Hugh Moss
(Publications), 1974. [49213] £40.00
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612 MOUNT, Sally. THE PRICE GUIDE TO 18th CENTURY ENGLISH POTTERY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (top edge a little torn and
chipped). Pp. 425, illustrated throughout. Price revision list for 1985 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club,
1972. [34165] £30.00
613 MOUNTFORD, Arnold R. THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO STAFFORDSHIRE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE. Tall 8vo. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper (spine lettering a trifl e faded). Pp.xxi, 88, with 7 colour plates and 244 illustrations. [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1971.
[69889] £35.00
614 MUELLER, Chester and OLSON, John. SMALL ARMS LEXICON AND CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA. 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (edges rather worn and creased in places). Pp. 309, with text illustrations throughout. [First edition] Hackensack, NJ: Shooter’s
Bible, 1968. [70735] £30.00
615 MUIR, Percy. BOOK-COLLECTING AS A HOBBY. In a series of letters to everyman. Original red cloth. Pp. 128, with 8 pages of illustrations.
Revised edition, Gramol Publications, 1945. [48556] £25.00
616 MUMFORD, John Kimberley. ORIENTAL RUGS. 4to. Original cloth, spine lettering faded. Pp. xvi, 278, complete with 16 colour plates. 8
autotypes and 8 photo-engravings. Joints cracked, endpapers a little spotted. [First UK edition] Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1901. [31881]
£250.00
617 MUNDY, R.G. (Major). ENGLISH DELFT POTTERY. 4to. Original cloth, faded, dustwrapper (worn and torn with some loss). Pp. 123, with
48 plates. Scattered foxing. [First edition] Herbert Jenkins, 1928. [26412] £85.00
618 MURARO, Michelangelo and GRABAR, André. TREASURES OF VENICE. The Church of St.Mark’s, the treasure of St.Mark’s, the Ducal
Palace, the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the architecture and monuments of Venice. Folio. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 218, with 125 tippedin
plates (85 in colour). [First edition] Albert Skira for the Sunday Times, 1963. [28276] £45.00
619 MURRAY, A.S. & HUTTON, C.A. GREEK BRONZES AND GREEK TERRACOTTA STATUETTES. Modern half levant morocco gilt. Pp.
104, xvi, 78, with 12 plates, 4 in colour. Frontispiece slightly stained at edges. [First edition] Seeley & Co., 1899. [23129] £85.00
620 MYATT, Frederick (Major). THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PISTOLS & REVOLVERS An illustrated history of hand guns
from the sixteenth century to the present day. Tall 4to. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper. Pp. 208, illustrated in colour
throughout. Blitz Editions, 1995. [69562] £20.00
621 NANCE, E.Morton. THE POTTERY & PORCELAIN OF SWANSEA & NANTGARW. Foreword by R.L.Hobson. Large thick 8vo. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn and creased). Pp. xviii, 579, with 196 plates. Loosely inserted is a 21-page illustrated article on Swansea blue
and white pottery by P.D.Pryce & S.H.Williams (4to, folded). [Limited facsimile edition (No.399 of 500 copies)] Haverfordwest: C.I.Thomas &
Sons, 1985. [69921] £120.00
622 NANCE, R.Morton. SAILING-SHIP MODELS A selection from European and American collections with introductory text. Revised edition.
4to. Original full morocco gilt (corners a trifl e rubbed). Pp. vi, 81, top edges gilt, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates. Several long
and interesting letters and notes, with an original photograph, to Nance, with an annotation in his hand to one of them, loosely inserted. [Limited
de luxe edition (No.65 of 200 copies)] Halton & Co., 1949. [49948] £300.00
623 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. vi, 81, with 120 plates, including colour frontispiece, and numerous text
illustrations. Revised edition, Halton & Co., 1949. [28200] £75.00
624 NARBETH, Colin, HENDY, Robin and STOCKER, Christopher. COLLECTING PAPER MONEY AND BONDS. Large 8vo. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 119, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1979. [52249] £25.00
625 NATHANSON, Alan J. THOMAS SIMON. His life and work 1618-1665. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 60, with 50 illustrations. [First
edition] Seaby Publications, 1975. [23896] £35.00
626 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM: CATALOGUE. Under revision. Original printed wrappers. Pp.viii, 222, with 24 plates and 2 folding
plans. Greenwich: printed for the Trustees, 1937. [31531] £25.00
627 NELSON, Philip. ANCIENT PAINTED GLASS IN ENGLAND 1170-1500. “The Antiquaries Books” series. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvii, 280,
with coloured frontispiece, 32 plates and 34 text illustrations. [First edition] Methuen, 1913. [31866] £45.00
627 NEWMAN, Harold. AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF JEWELRY. 2,530 entries, including defi nitions of jewels, gemstone, materials,
processes and styles, and entries on principal designers and makers, from antiquity to the present day. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 335, with 685 illustrations (16 in colour). [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1981. [69250] £65.00
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628 —— —— another edition. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. Pp. 335, with 685 illustrations (16 in colour). [First softback
edition] Thames and Hudson, 1987. [43197] £30.00
629 NICHOLLS, Robert. TEN GENERATIONS OF A POTTING FAMILY. Founded upon “William Adams, an Old English Potter” by William
Turner, and other works on the Adams family. Original buckram gilt, dustwrapper (edges a little worn, spine rather browned, a small nick). Pp.
xxvi, 135 with 54 plates and a folding genealogical tree. [First edition] Lund, Humphries, no date [c.1930]. [69872] £30.00
630 NORTH, Anthony and HOGG, Ian V. THE BOOK OF GUNS & GUNSMITHS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 255, illustrated
throughout. Inscription on title. Quarto Books, 1977. [31469] £30.00
631 NORTON, Richard and Martin. A HISTORY OF GOLD SNUFF BOXES. Original full soft leather gilt. Pp. viii, 116, with double-page and
folding frontispiece and 43 plates. [First edition] S.J.Phillips, 1938. [48782] £50.00
632 NOTT, Stanley Charles. CHINESE JADE THROUGHOUT THE AGES. A review of its characteristics, decoration, folklore and symbolism.
With an Introduction by Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith. Tall 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. xviii, 193, with 39 colour plates, 109
monochrome illustrations and 73 text drawings. [First edition] Batsford, 1936. [26169] £85.00
633 NOTTINGHAM, Pamela. THE TECHNIQUE OF BOBBIN LACE. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 222, illustrated throughout.
Batsford, 1985. [47075] £20.00
634 O’NEILL, Cynthia. A PICTURE OF HEALTH. Hospitals and nursing on old picture postcards. Foreword by Trevor Clay. Oblong 8vo.
Original wrappers. Pp. (iv), 196, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Loggerheads: S.B.Publications, 1989. [65967] £15.00
635 OLDHAM, J.Basil. ENGLISH BLIND-STAMPED BINDINGS. The Sandars lectures 1949. Tall folio. Original blue buckram gilt with leather
spine-label, dustwrapper (a few spots in places). Pp.xiii , 73, plus 61 plates. Few spots to the fore-edge. [First edition (750 copies)] Cambridge:
University Press, 1952. [68938] £180.00
636 OMAN, Charles. ENGLISH SILVERSMITH’S WORK. Civil and domestic: an introduction. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
15, with 212 plates. [First edition] H.M.S.O, 1965. [16791] £35.00
637 OPIE, Iona and Robert, and ALDERSON, Brian. THE TREASURES OF CHILDHOOD. Books, toys and games from the Opie collection.
Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 192, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Michael Joseph, 1989. [42435] £35.00
638 OPIE, Robert. THE ART OF THE LABEL. Designs of the times. Large square 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper.
Pp. 144, illustrated in colour throughout. Eagle Editions, 2000. [65233] £20.00
639 —— RULE BRITANNIA. Trading on the British image. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 160, illustrated in colour throughout. Past Times, 1985.
[65330] £15.00
649 ORD-HUME, Arthur W.J.G. CLOCKWORK MUSIC. An illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the
pianola, from automaton lady virginal players to orchestrion. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 334, illustrated throughout with
contemporary material. Old tape on fl yleaves and wrapper fl aps. [First edition] Allen & Unwin, 1973. [25821] £85.00
650 —— COLLECTING MUSICAL BOXES and how to repair them. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 140, (iv), with 44 plates
and 21 line drawings. [First edition] Allen & Unwin, 1967. [53167] £35.00
651 ORMSBEE, Thomas Hamilton. THE STORY OF AMERICAN FURNITURE. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xxi, 276, with 117 plates and 31 text
drawings. New York: Macmillan, 1946. [47196] £30.00
652 OSWALD, Adrian, HILDYARD, R.J.C. and HUGHES, R.G. ENGLISH BROWN STONEWARE 1670-1900. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 308, with 9 colour plates, 181 illustrations and 13 fi gures. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Faber, 1982. [69903] £95.00
653 OUELLETTE, William. FANTASY POSTCARDS. Introduction by Barbara Jones. Oblong 4to. Original wrappers, corners a little curled. Pp.
87, (ix), illustrated throughout (partly in colour). [First softback edition] London Editions, no date. [69094] £25.00
654 —— & JONES, Barbara. EROTIC POSTCARDS. 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 127, illustrated throughout (partly in colour).
[First edition] New York: Excalibur Books, 1977. [69093] £30.00
655 PAGDIN, William E. THE STORY OF THE WEATHERCOCK. Large 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 103, illustrated throughout by the
author. Privately published: Stockton-on-Tees, 1949. [32454] £45.00
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656 PALARDY, Jean. THE EARLY OAK FURNITURE OF FRENCH CANADA. Translated from the French by Eric McLean. Small folio.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 404, with 10 colour plates and 600 monochrome plates. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Toronto: Macmillan,
1963. [35656] £150.00
657 PALLISER, Bury (Mrs.) THE CHINA COLLECTOR’S POCKET COMPANION. Small 8vo. Original decorated cloth gilt, a trifl e marked.
Pp. 164, with plates of marks throughout. Second edition, Sampson Low etc., 1875. [69073] £25.00
658 —— HISTORY OF LACE. Original pictorial cloth gilt over bevelled boards, faded, edges worn, strongly re-cased. Pp. iv, 460, all edges gilt,
with 169 illustrations (of which 17 are full-page, 15 printed in monochrome in different colours). [First edition] Sampson Low, Son & Marston,
1865. [65093] £95.00
659 PAUL, John. MODERN HARPSICHORD MAKERS. Portraits of nineteen British craftsmen and their work. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. vii, 280, well illustrated. [First edition] Gollancz, 1981. [48823] £50.00
660 PAUL, Tessa. THE ART OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout.
Tiger Books, 1990. [28369] £25.00
661 PAVESI, Jacopo & PIETROROBELLI, Robert\. STREET COVERS. London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome. Square 8vo. Original silver
boards, dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour throughout. The manhole cover as a classic of industrial design and art. [First UK
edition] Westzone Publishing, 1991. [63876] £20.00
662 PAVIÈRE, Sydney (Foreword): THE R.H.SMITH COLLECTION OF ENGLISH PORCELAIN. Original wrappers. Pp. 32, with 20 plates.
Errata sheet loosely inserted, with the corrections made in ink to the text. A fi ne copy. Preston: Harris Museum, 1954. [34132] £35.00
663 PAYNE, A.A. A HANDBOOK OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORDERS, WAR MEDALS AND DECORATIONS awarded to the army and
navy. Chiefl y described from those in the collection of A.A.Payne, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of which there are some 2,500. More than 500 of these
have been awarded to offi cers whose services are therein recorded. Large thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine a little scratched, neatly re-cased.
Pp. lxix, 812, “illustrated with nearly 60 portraits, orders and medals” and portrait frontispiece. Very scarce. [Printed for subscribers only (less
than 100 copies)] Sheffi eld: J.W.Northend, 1911. [24427] £250.00
664 PAYNE, Christopher. 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN FURNITURE. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 504, with 8 pages of colour
plates and 1443 illustrations. Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989. [55771] £150.00
665 PEACOCK, John. THE CHRONICLE OF WESTERN COSTUME. From the ancient world to the late twentieth century. 4to. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, with over 1000 colour illustrations. [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1991. [42533] £25.00
666 PEAL, Christopher A. BRITISH PEWTER AND BRITANNIA METAL for pleasure and investment. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 200,
with 16 colour plates and 102 illustrations. [First edition] John Gifford, 1971. [26406] £25.00
667 —— —— another edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 200, with 16 colour plates and 102 illustrations. Peebles
Press, 1973. [34999] £25.00
668 PEARSALL, Ronald. VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC COVERS. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 112, illustrated throughout.
[First edition] Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1972. [18672] £20.00
669 PEARSON, J.Michael and Dorothy T. AMERICAN CUT GLASS for the discriminating collector. Small 4to. Original two-tone cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 204, with coloured frontispiece and over 600 photographs and patent drawings. New York: Vantage Press, 1965. [26407]
£65.00
670 PEDRICK, Gale. MONASTIC SEALS OF THE XIIITH CENTURY, a series of examples, illustrating the nature of their design and artistic
value, selected, introduced, and described. Large 8vo. Original vellum-backed boards gilt, hinges a trifl e rubbed. Pp. xiv, 144, top edges gilt,
uncut, with title in red and black and 50 plates containing 100 photographic illustrations. New endpapers. De la More Press, 1902. [19551]
£120.00
671 PENELOPE. TRADITIONAL EMBROIDERY. Illustrating designs arranged and drawn by the Royal School of Needlework, Kensington, after
the style and tradition of days long past, and presented to the needle-work loving public. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 36, with 11 colour
plates and other illustrations. Manchester: Wm.Briggs & Co., no date. [29062] £25.00
672 PENFOLD, John B. THE CLOCKMAKERS OF CUMBERLAND. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 284, illustrated throughout. Silk marker.
4-page duplicated article on the clockmakers of Brampton by Penfold loosely inserted. A fi ne copy of this scarce and much sought-after work.
[Signed limited edition (No.92] Ashford: Brant Wright Associates, 1977. [60845] £375.00
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673 PENKALA, Maria. EUROPEAN PORCELAIN. A handbook for the collector. Original cloth gilt, a few slight scratches. Pp. 314, with 125
pages of marks. [First edition] Zwemmer, 1947. [23167] £25.00
674 PENMAN, laurie. CLOCK DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION including dial making. Large 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching
dustwrapper. Pp. 144, with 219 text illustrations. A fi ne copy - scarce. [First hardback edition] Alphabooks, 1989. [69531] £65.00
675 PENROSE, Antony. THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 216, with 171 duotone illustrations. [First
edition] Thames and Hudson, 1985. [50899] £45.00
676 PERCIVAL, MacIver. OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS from the Restoration to the Regency. 4to. Original cloth
silvered, extremities a trifl e rubbed, few spots to upper board. Pp. xix, 204, with numerous plates and text drawings. Scattered spotting. [First
edition] Heinemann, 1920. [35647] £40.00
677 PERKINS, Roger. MILITARY AND NAVAL SILVER. Treasures of the mess and wardroom. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
232, illustrated throughout. privately published, Newton Abbott, 1999. [55993] £50.00
678 PERRY, Walter Copland. GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURE. A popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture. Thick
8vo. Original cloth gilt, extremities a little frayed. Pp. xxx, 700, with 268 text woodcuts. Ex-library, with usual stamps and labels on back of title
and a few marginal blind stamps, joints cracking, but a very good copy. [First edition] Longmans, Green and Co., 1882. [35243] £40.00
679 PEVSNER, Nikolaus. AN ENQUIRY INTO INDUSTRIAL ART IN ENGLAND. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn
and soiled, piece torn from top of the upper panel). Pp. xiv, 235, with 24 pages of plates. [First edition] Cambridge: University Press, 1937.
[69988] £65.00
680 PINE, Nicholas. THE PRICE GUIDE TO CRESTED CHINA. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 116, (iv). [First edition[ Portsmouth:
Milestone Publications, 1981. [63037] £20.00
681 PINN, Keith. PAKTONG. The Chinese alloy in Europe 1680-1820. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 190, with 18 colour plates and
over 230 other illustrations. As new. [First edition] Antiques Collectors Club, 1999. [70520] £45.00
682 PLATH, Iona. THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF SWEDEN. 4to.Original cloth gilt,, spine rather darkened, re-cased. Pp. xxiv, 246, with 31 colour
plates and 212 other illustrations. [First edition] Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. [30424] £85.00
683 PLUMB, J.H. & WHELDON, Huw. ROYAL HERITAGE. The story of Britain’s royal builders and collectors. Tall 4to. Original wrappers. Pp.
360, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First softback edition] BBC, 1981. [64160] £20.00
684 POYNDER, Michael. THE PRICE GUIDE TO JEWELLERY 3000 B.C. - 1950 A.D. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 385, with 273
plates (43 in colour). [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976. [34177] £30.00
685 —— —— another edition. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 385, with 273 plates. Price revision list for November 1987 loosely
inserted. Antique Collectors Club, 1988. [16900] £30.00
686 PRAY, Leon L. TAXIDERMY. Olympic editions. Original cloth, dustwrapper (a little chipped and creased). Pp. viii, 91, with 45 line drawings.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1958, [64796] £20.00
687 PRIMMER, Kathleen. SCANDINAVIAN PEASANT COSTUME. Notes by M.S.Primmer. 4to. Original boards, rather damped, dustwrapper.
Pp. 108, with 8 colour plates and 64 pages of pencil drawings. Front endpapers rather soiled. [First edition] Adam and Charles Black, 1939.
[46630] £25.00
688 PRINTING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. A survey. Reprinted from the special number of The Times, October 29, 1929 Small 4to.
Original buckram with leather spine label, backstrip mellowed. Pp. xvi, 299, xxviii, well illustrated, with contributions by Douglas Cockerell,
Stanley Morison, A.W. Pollard, William E. Rudge, Emery Walker and others. [First edition] Times Publishing Co., 1930. [45275] £45.00
689 PURVES, Alec A. COLLECTING MEDALS AND DECORATIONS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 237, illustrated. Third
edition, Seaby, 1978. [36622] £25.00
690 QUAYLE, Eric. THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (extremities a little rubbed).
Pp.144, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1971. [53634] £45.00
691 RACKHAM, Bernard. A BOOK OF PORCELAIN. Fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, spine a
little rubbed, a nick repaired. Pp. 95, complete with 28 fi ne mounted colour plates after paintings by William Gibb. [First edition] Adam and
Charles Black, 1910. [26021] £50.00
39

692 —— ENAMELS AND GLASS. Volume III of the Catalogue of English Porcelain Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles
Schreiber Esq., M.P. and The Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (a little marked). Pp. 102, plus 48 plates illustrating 431 items. V. & A.Museum Department of Ceramics, 1924. [16438] £45.00
693 —— PORCELAIN. Volume I of the catalogue of English porcelain, earthenware, enamels and glass, collected by Charles Schreiber Esq.,
M.P. and The Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and
marked. Pp. 226, plus 96 plates illustrating 825 items. V. & A. Museum Department of Ceramics, 1928. [20139] £65.00
694 —— THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. A guide for visitors and students. Small 8vo. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, with 8 plates. [First edition] Canterbury: S.P.C.K., 1957. [24225] £20.00
695 RADCLIFFE, Anthony. EUROPEAN BRONZE STATUETTES. A Connoisseur monograph. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 120 with 8
coloured plates and 76 illustrations. Michael Joseph, 1966. [16959] £15.00
696 RADLEY, Chris. THE EMBROIDERED SILK POSTCARD. Original wrappers. Pp. 60, illustrated. Privately published, 1977. [68936]
£35.00
697 —— THE WOVEN SILK POSTCARD. Original wrappers. Pp. 84, illustrated. Privately published, 1978. [68935] £35.00
698 RAMSDEN, Charles. LONDON BOOKBINDERS 1780-1840. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 155, with 40 plates.
Batsford, 1987. [27653] £30.00
699 RANDIER, Jean. MARINE NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS. Translated from the French by John E.Powell. 4to. Original blue cloth gilt, spine
and top edges rather faded. Pp. 219, with colour plates and 244 illustrations (many in colour or tinted). John Murray, 1980. [69253] £25.00
700 RANKE, Herbert (introduction). THE ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT. Architecture, sculpture, painting, applied art. Small 4to. Original cloth
gilt, spine a little faded, a few fi nger marks. Pp. 22, plus 340 reproduction, rotogravure and tipped-in colour plates. [First edition] Phaidon Press,
1936. [28058] £30.00
701 RAWSON, Jessica (Foreword). THE CHINESE BRONZES OF YUNNAN. The Bowater Library of Chinese Civilization. Folio. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper, slip-case. Pp. 261, with 249 colour plates. [First edition] Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983. [28329] £95.00
702 RAY, Anthony. ENGLISH DELFTWARE POTTERY in the Robert Hall Warren collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Preface by Nigel
Warren. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 248, with 8 colour plates and 110 pages of monochrome plates [First US edition] Boston
: Boston Book & Art Shop, 1968. [69882] £85.00
703 READ, Charles Hercules. THE WADDESDON BEQUEST. Catalogue of the works of art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron
Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898. Large 4to. Original buckram gilt. Pp. xvi, 262, with 55 plates and 42 text fi gures. [First edition] British
Museum, 1902. [23831] £75.00
704 READ, Herbert. ART AND INDUSTRY. The principles of industrial design. Original cloth. Pp. 188, well illustrated. Faber, 1945. [38069]
£20.00
705 READE, Brian. REGENCY ANTIQUES. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 270, with coloured frontispiece and
181 plates. [First edition] Batsford, 1953. [19487] £45.00
706 REIGATE, Emily. AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LACE. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 262, with 12 colour plates and 700
illustrations. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1986. [47151] £45.00
707 REILLY, Robin. WEDGWOOD. The new illustrated dictionary. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 514, illustrated throughout, and with
132 colour plates. Antique Collectors Club, 1996. [69918] £75.00
708 —— and SAVAGE, George. THE DICTIONARY OF WEDGWOOD. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 414 with 23 coloured plates.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980. [16935] £40.00
709 —— WEDGWOOD. The portrait medallions. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine and edges faded). Pp. 379, illustrated
throughout and with 16 coloured plates. [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1973. [70659] £75.00
710 REILLY, Valerie. THE PAISLEY PATTERN. The offi cial illustrated history. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, illustrated in
colour throughout. [First edition] Glasgow: Richard Drew, 1987. [51075] £25.00
711 REYNOLDS, E.G.B. (Major). THE LEE-ENFIELD RIFLE. Its history and development from fi rst designs to the present day. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper (rather worn and creased in places). Pp. 224, with 38 illustrations. Herbert Jenkins, 1962. [70724] £85.00
40

712 RICE, D.G. THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ROCKINGHAM POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xx, 194,
with 179 plates (8 in colour). [First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. [34153] £45.00
713 RICHARDS, H.S. ALL ABOUT HORSE BRASSES. A collector’s complete guide. With additional illustration and key of horse in ornamented
harness. Square 12mo. Original stiff wrappers. Pp. 56, with 340 illustrations. Scarce. Eleventh printing, Sutton Coldfi eld: privately published,
1949. [44298] £35.00
714 —— —— another edition. Square 12mo. Original stiff wrappers. Pp. 55, with 340 illustrations. Scarce. Seventeenth printing,
Birmingham: Derverlea Products, 1953. [44297] £30.00
715 —— —— another edition. Square 12mo. Original stiff wrappers. Pp. 55, with 340 illustrations. Scarce. Birmingham: Derverlea
Products, 1964. [41641] £35.00
716 —— HORSE BRASS COLLECTIONS. .No.1 Containing the noted Clifton and Marshfi eld collections. Small 8vo. Original cloth, a little
marked. Pp. 60, with over 1400 illustrations. Scarce. [First edition] Sutton Coldfi eld: privately published, 1944. [69122] £30.00
717 RICKARDS, Maurice. COLLECTING PRINTED EPHEMERA. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, illustrated throughout in colour
and black and white. Fore-edge of the half-title creased. [First edition] Phaidon, Christies, 1988. [63942] £35.00
718 RICKETTS, Howard. FIREARMS. Large 8vo. Original pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper. Pp. 97, with 140 illustrations in colour and
black and white. Octopus Books, 1972. [69555] £15.00
719 RIDGWAY, Maurice H. CHESTER SILVER 1727-1837. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 237, with colour frontispiece and 96
illustrations. [First edition] Phillimore, 1985. [36398] £30.00
720 RILEY, Noel. TILE ART. A history of decorative ceramic tiles. 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout. [First
edition] Baldock: The Apple Press, 1987. [69892] £30.00
721 ROBERTS, Derek. A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO CLOCKS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout.
[First edition] New Burlington Books, 1992. [69518] £20.00
722 ROBERTS, Sonia. BIRD-KEEPING AND BIRDCAGES: a history. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 143, with 57
illustrations. [First edition] Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. [33689] £35.00
723 ROBINS, F.W. THE SMITH. The traditions and lore of an ancient craft. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, with 13 plates and 12 line
drawings. [First edition] Rider & Co., 1953. [61995] £30.00
724 ROBINSON, Frederick S. ENGLISH FURNITURE. The Connoisseur’s Library series. 4to. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, spine a little
faded, edges a trifl e worn or frayed. Pp. xl, 365, with tissue-guarded photo-etched frontispiece and 160 plates. Scattered light spotting. [First
edition] Methuen, 1905. [59756] £40.00
725 RODD, John. THE REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF FURNITURE. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 180, with 55 plates and
illustrations. Neat inscription on the half-title, few spots to fore-edge. [First edition] Batsford, 1954. [49159] £25.00
726 —— REPAIRING AND RESTORING ANTIQUE FURNITURE. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, well illustrated.
David & Charles, 1976. [68858] £25.00
727 RODGERS, David. WILLIAM MORRIS AT HOME. An intimate view of his life and homes, including personal recipes. Large 4to. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 160, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. [First edition] Ebury Press, 1996. [63865] £20.00
728 ROE, F.Gordon. ENGLISH COTTAGE FURNITURE from earliest times to the Victorian era. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, with
74 plates and 235 text illustrations. New edition, Phoenix House, 1961. [64510] £25.00
729 RONTGEN, Robert E. THE BOOK OF MEISSEN. Folio. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 333, with 266 colour platea and 1023 illustrations.
A fi ne copy. Second edition, Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1996. [58452] £60.00
730 ROSS, E.Denison (Sir). THE ART OF EGYPT THROUGH THE AGES. 4to. Original blue cloth gilt over bevelled boards, boards rather
damped and spine faded. Pp. (iv), 354, with 6 colour plates and numerous plates. [First edition] The Studio, 1931. [52583] £35.00
731 ROTH, H.Ling. ORIENTAL SILVERWORK. Malay and Chinese. A handbook for connoisseurs, collectors, students and silversmiths. 4to.
Original cloth over bevelled boards. Pp. 300, top edges gilt, with over 250 illustrations. Flyleaves a little spotted, otherwise an excellent copy.
[First edition] Truslove and Hanson, 1910. [23546] £175.00
41

732 ROUSSEL, Diana Edwards. THE CASTLEFORD POTTERY 1790-1821. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little faded).
Pp. 78, [57, 7, facsimile pattern book], (x), with 5 colour plates and 107 illustrations. [First edition] Wakefi eld Historical Publications, 1982.
[69922] £75.00
733 ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM. REFERENCE BOOK AND CATALOGUE OF ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM AND ROYAL AIR
FORCES ESCAPING SOCIETY FLOWN COVERS. Original blue plastic-coated square 8vo ring binding, label in plastic spine sleeve. Each
section tabbed and paginated separately. Illustrated throughout. Supplements for 1977 and 1978 bound in, that for 1981 loosely inserted. Looseleaf
edition, Hendon: RAF Museum, 1976. [69120] £35.00
734 ROYER-COLLARD, F.B. SKELETON CLOCKS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 154, illustrated throughout. N.A.G.Press, 1969.
[19641] £65.00
735 RUDDLE, John. COLLECTORS’ GUIDE TO BRITAIN’S MODEL SOLDIERS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxxi, 158, with 8 pages
of colour plates and 64 pages of black and white illustrations. [First edition] Model and Allied Publications, 1980. [56085] £25.00
736 RUSCOE, William. A MANUAL FOR THE POTTER. Original cloth, dustwrapper (a little defective). Pp. 112, with 24 plates and 76 text
drawings. [First edition] Alex Tiranti, 1948. [23191] £25.00
737 RUSH, James. THE INGENIOUS BEILBYS. Small 4to, original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 168 with 98 plates, many in
colour. Inscribed by the author on the half-title “to Kathleen Hodge, a glass connoissoeur after my own heart” and dated October 23rd 1974.
[First edition] Barrie & Jenkins, 1973. [22265] £40.00
738 SALLEY, Virginia Sutton and George H. ROYAL BAYREUTH CHINA. Original pictorial wrappers, comb-bound. Pp. (32), with 15 coloured
plates and descriptions, all printed on stiff card. Presentation copy, inscribed by Virginia Sutton Salley. [First edition] Portland, Main: privately
published, 1969. [26493] £25.00
739 SANDON, Henry. COFFEE POTS AND TEAPOTS FOR THE COLLECTOR. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, with 162 plates
(partly in colour). [First edition] Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, 1973. [34141] £30.00
740 —— FLIGHT AND BARR WORCESTER PORCELAIN 1783-1840. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 245, with 190 plates (some
in colour) and 24 illustrations of marks. [First edition] Antique Collectors Club, 1978. [69883] £65.00
741 —— ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN. from 1862 to the present day. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxix, 265, with
19 colour plates and 220 illustrations. Scarce. New York: Clarkson N.Potter, 1973. [69931] £120.00
742 —— WORCESTER PORCELAIN 1751-1793. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (corners a little worn). Pp. xvii, 96, with 7 colour
plates and 149 illustrations. Second edition, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974. [69901] £25.00
743 —— and John. GRAINGER’S WORCESTER PORCELAIN. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 288, with 8 pages of colour
plates, 180 black and white photographs, over 50 line drawings and a list of 4,500 pattern numbers and descriptions. [First edition] Barrie &
Jenkins, 1989. [69913] £95.00
744 SANDON, John. THE DICTIONARY OF WORCESTER PORCELAIN 1751-1851. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 384, with 101
colour plates and 465 black and white illustrations. [First edition] Antique Collectors’ Club, 1993. [54418] £60.00
745 SAUNDERS, William. ANCIENT HANDWRITINGS. An introductory manual for intending students of palaeography and diplomatic. 4to.
Original red cloth gilt over bevelled boards, rather marked and bubbled. Pp. 64, illustrated. [First edition] Walton-on-Thames: Chas.A.Bernau,
1909. [57776] £40.00
746 SAUVAGEOT, Claude. L’ART POUR TOUS. Encyclopédie de l’Art Industriel et Décoratif. Neuvième Année. Folio. Original cloth-backed
decorative boards, a little soiled, edges worn. Pp. 917-1012 with 198 woodcut illustrations and 8 full-page coloured plates. A few spots in places,
upper joint cracking. Paris: A.Morel et Cie, 1870. [16749]
Scarce. This volume includes 24 numbers (231-253) from 15 July 1869 to 30 June 1870.
£125.00
747 SAVAGE, George. 18TH-CENTURY ENGLISH PORCELAIN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xx, 435, with coloured frontispiece and
112 plates. Edges a trifl e spotted. [First edition] Rockliff, 1952. [19493] £35.00
748 —— THE ART AND ANTIQUE RESTORER’S HANDBOOK. A dictionary of materials and processes used in the restoration and
preservation of all kinds of works of art. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (head of spine chipped). Pp. vi, 140. Rockcliff, 1954. [68485] £15.00
42

749 —— and NEWMAN, Harold. AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF CERAMICS. 3,054 terms relating to wares, materials, processes,
styles, patterns, and shapes from antiquity to the present day. With an introductory list of principal European factories and their marks compiled
by John Cushion. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 320, illustrated throughout. Second revised edition, Thames & Hudson, 1976.
[46219] £30.00
750 SCHERER, Margaret R. MARVELS OF ANCIENT ROME. Edited and foreword by Charles Rufus Morey. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (a trifl e worn). Pp. ix, 430, with 222 plates. Phaidon Press for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956. [38055] £30.00
751 SCHMIDT, Robert. PORCELAIN AS AN ART AND A MIRROR OF FASHION. Translated and edited with an introduction by W.A.Thorpe.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather worn and soiled, laid down). Pp. 336, with 8 colour plates and 200 other illustrations. [First edition]
Harrap, 1932. [52254] £30.00
Bookplate of G.F.Reiss, Lakes artist, later presented by him to the Kendal Art Society.
752 SCHWING, Ned. THE BROWNING SUPERPOSED. John M.Browning’s last legacy. 4to. Original boards gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 496,
illustrated throughout, with 48 pages in colour. A fi ne copy - very scarce. [First edition] Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1996. [69559] £350.00
753 SCOTT, Amoret and Christopher. COLLECTING BYGONES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 142, with 8 plates and
numerous text drawings. [First edition] Max Parrish, 1964. [64511] £15.00
754 SCOTT, Peter T. HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. Cards, messages and legends of the Great War. Oblong 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
66, with 14 colour plates on 8 pages and 75 black and white plates. [First edition] Tom Donovan, 1993. [64399] £25.00
755 SCROGGINS, Clara Johnson. HALLMARK KEEPSAKE ORNAMENTS. A collector’s guide. Large 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards.
Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour throughout. Third edition, Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, 1987. [20914] £30.00
756 SEABY, Herbert Allen and RAYNER, P.Alan. THE ENGLISH SILVER COINAGE from 1649. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (priceclipped).
Pp. 203, illustrated throughout. Third edition, B.A.Seaby, 1968. [50874] £20.00
757 SELECTION OF SIXTY SUBJECTS FROM THE WORKS OF THE BEST ANCIENT & MODERN SCULPTORS. Large 8vo.
Contemporary full green morocco gilt extra, the boards elaborately panelled with multiple rules and fi llets, with corner-pieces and a central
gilt-stamped urn. Neatly re-cased, the spine rather mellowed, hinges and edges rather rubbed, a few scrapes, but a handsome binding. All edges
gilt. Complete with engraved title, contents leaf, and 60 line-engraved prints. Bright yellow endpapers with a red and gilt overall pattern. A few
scattered spots. Scarce. Charles Murton, no date [c.1830]. [35584] £180.00
758 SHENTON, Alan and Rita. THE PRICE GUIDE TO CLOCKS 1840-1940. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. x, 541, illustrated throughout.
Price revision list to May 1982 loosely inserted. Antique Collectors Club, 1981. [22240] £25.00
759 SHOTTER, D.C.A. ROMAN COINS. Small 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 64, illustrated. [First edition] Dalesman Books, 1978. [63445]
£15.00
760 SHURE, David S. HESTER BATEMAN. Queen of English silversmiths. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 32, plus 87 plates. Few light
spots to front endpapers, otherwise a fi ne copy of a scarce title. [First edition,. W.H.Allen, 1959. [19405] £150.00
761 SIMMEN, René. THE WORLD OF PUPPETS. Hand puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets, from ancient Egypt to modern day America to
Malaysia. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. (iv), 135, with 45 colour plates and over 100 black and white illustrations. [First English
edition] Elsevier Phaidon, 1975. [57519] £25.00
762 SITWELL, H.D. (Major-General). THE CROWN JEWELS and other regalia in the Tower of London. Edited by Clarence Winchester. Folio.
Original three-quarters red crushed morocco gilt, gilt crown on the upper board, dustwrapper (short closed tear to spine neatly repaired on the
reverse), cloth slip-case. Pp. 115, all edges gilt, with 8 superb tissue-guarded colour plates and 28 pages of monochrome illustrations. A fi ne copy.
[[Signed limited edition (No.13 of 99 copies)] Dropmore Press, 1953. [37155] £275.00
763 SKEET, Francis John Angus. STUART PAPERS, PICTURES, RELICS, MEDALS AND BOOKS in the collection of Miss Maria Widdrington.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 98, top edges gilt, uncut, with 6 tissue-guarded plates. [Signed limited edition (375)] Leeds: John Whitehead
& Son, 1930. [22489] £75.00
764 SKELTON, R.A. DECORATIVE PRINTED MAPS of the 15th to 18th centuries. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 80, with 84 plates.
Spring Books, 1967. [26170] £50.00
765 SKELTON, R.A., MARSTON, Thomas E. and PAINTER, George D. THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION. Foreword
by Alexander O.Vietor. 4to. Original boards gilt. Pp. xii, 289, with 19 plates and 13 leaves of facsimiles. Yale University Press, 1965. [30380]
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£120.00

766 SLYTHE, R.Margaret. THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1750-1900. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 144, with
coloured frontispiece and 42 illustrations. [First edition] The Library Association, 1970. [53581] £45.00
767 SMITH, Alan. THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LIVERPOOL HERCULANEUM POTTERY 1796-1840. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(spine lettering rather faded). Pp. xvi, 142, with 7 colour plates, 191 monochrome illustrations and 4 maps and plans. [First edition] Barrie &
Jenkins, 1970. [69914] £30.00
768 SMITH, Alan and ABBOTT, Henry G. THE LANCASHIRE WATCH COMPANY, Prescot, Lancashire, England 1889-1910. Part 1 - essay,
part II - a trade catalogue, part III - papers. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Pp. 88, well illustrated. Scarce. Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Ken
Roberts, 1973. [56239] £50.00
769 SMITH, David. MAPS AND PLANS for the local historian and collector. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 240, with 106
illustrations (6 in colour). [First edition] Batsford, 1988. [48568] £25.00
770 —— VICTORIAN MAPS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 176, with 114 illustrations (8 in colour).
[First edition] Batsford, 1985. [48563] £30.00
771 SMITH, H.Clifford. THE PANELLED ROOMS. IV the inlaid room from Sizergh Castle. V. & A.Museum. Dept. of Woodwork. Publication
No.116 w. Small 4to. Original boards, a trifl e marked. Pp. 34, plus 15 plates. H.M.S.O., 1915. [53337]
A work which assumes an added importance now that the panelling has been returned to Sizergh.
£45.00
772 SMITH, Leslie N.S. THE STAINED GLASS IN THE CHURCHES OF THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF CARLISLE. A catalogue and
gazetteer. Extra Series XXVI. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 180, plus 34 coloured plates on 16 pages. A fi ne copy.
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 1994. [61239] £50.00
773 SNOWMAN, A.Kenneth. THE ART OF CARL FABERGÉ. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 167, with 27 coloured plates and
380 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1953. [19489] £65.00
774 —— —— another edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 186, with 86 coloured plates and 407 monochrome
illustrations. Third enlarged edition, Faber, 1964. [26374] £75.00
775 —— CARL FABERGÉ. Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (repaired tear to the upper
panel). Pp. 160, illustrated throughout (mostly in colour). Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title “For Joan and Victor [Lord Mishcon and
his fourth wife], all good wishes, Kenneth”. [First edition] Debretts, 1979. [57357] £40.00
776 —— EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GOLD BOXES OF EUROPE. Foreword by Sir Sacheverell Sitwell and an appendix by Sir Francis
Watson. Large square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 500, top edges gilt, with 383 colour plates and 583 black and white illustrations.
Presentation copy to Lord Mishcon (1915-2006, high profi le solicitor and Labour front-bencher), inscribed on the title “Dear Victor, Many happy
returns on this truly unbelieveable birthday. Ever, Kenneth. August 14th ‘95.” A fi ne copy of this sumptuous work. [First edition] Antiques
Collectors’ Club, 1990. [57417] £180.00
777 SNYDER, Jeffrey B. CANES: from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Large 4to. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 252, illustrated in
colour throughout (over 900 coloured illustrations). Marbled endpapers. [First edition] Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1993. [62876] £75.00
778 SOLON, M.L. A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ITALIAN MAJOLICA. Thick 4to. Original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bumped. Pp.
xvi, 208, with 23 coloured and 49 plain plates. [First edition] Cassel & Co., 1907. [23143] £60.00
779 SPELLMAN, Doreen and Sidney. VICTORIAN MUSIC COVERS. With a Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. Square 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 72, with 32 illustrations, 4 in colour. [First edition] Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969. [50873] £20.00
780 SPELMAN, W.W.R. LOWESTOFT CHINA. 4to. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards. Pp. 78, top edges gilt, with coloured frontispiece
and 97 plates, many in colour. [Limited edition (No.120 of 500 copies)] Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, 1905. [16282] £150.00
781 SPERO, Simon. THE PRICE GUIDE TO 18th CENTURY ENGLISH PORCELAIN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. 448,
illustrated throughout. Price revision lists for 1987 and 1989 loosely inserted. [First edition] Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1970.
[34190] £30.00
782 SPOURS, Judy. ART DECO TABLEWARE. British domestic ceramics 1925-1939. Tall 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 224, illustrated in
colour throughout. First softback edition, Studio Vista, 1991. [54658] £25.00
783 STAFF, Frank. THE PENNY POST 16890-1918. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges a little chipped, price-clipped). Pp. 219, with 23 plates
and 38 fi gures. Ex-library, with a small stamp on the title, and the fl yleaf removed. Lutterworth Press, 1966. [65420] £20.00
44

784 STANNUS, Graydon (Mrs.) OLD IRISH GLASS. Connoisseur Series of Books for Collectors. Revised and enlarged. Small 4to. Original cloth
gilt. Pp. x, 15, plus 60 plates. The Connoisseur, 1921. [23253] £85.00
785 STANSFIELD, H.H. SCULPTURE & THE SCULPTOR’S ART. Original cloth gilt, small label removed from foot of spine. Pp. xi, 164, well
illustrated. [First edition] T.C. & E.C.Jack, 1918. [52783]
Bookplate of G.F.Reiss, Lakes artist, later presented by him to the Kendal Art Society.
£25.00
786 STENTON, Sir Frank (editor). THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. A comprehensive survey, by Sir Frank Stenton, Simone Bertrand, George
Wingfi eld Digby, Charles H.Gibbs-Smith, Sir James Mann, John L.Nevinson and Francis Wormald. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(extremities a trifl e worn). Pp. 182, with 150 illustrations (14 in colour). [First edition] Phaidon, 1957. [51455] £65.00
787 STEPHENSON, Mill. APPENDIX TO A LIST OF MONUMENTAL BRASSES IN THE BRITISH ISLES. Original blue cloth gilt. Pp. 719-
849. Privately printed by Headley Brothers, 1938. [69393]
This addenda to the author’s list of brasses of 1926 was privately printed for his friends and is very scarce on its own.
£45.00
788 STRANGE, Thomas Arthur. AN HISTORICAL GUIDE TO FRENCH INTERIORS, FURNITURE, DECORATION, WOODWORK &
ALLIED ARTS during the last half of the seventeenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth. 4to. Original morocco-backed cloth gilt, a
little rubbed. Pp. 400, illustrated throughout. A very good sound copy. [First edition] privately published, no date [c.1910]. [49226] £85.00
789 STRINGER, George Eyre. NEW HALL PORCELAIN. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, head of spine a little worn. Pp. xii, 136, with colour
frontispiece and 39 plates. Endpapers lightly spotted. [First edition] Art Trade Press, 1949. [58481] £35.00
790 SUFLING, Ernest R. ENGLISH CHURCH BRASSES from the 13th to the 17th Century. A manual for antiquaries, archaeologists and
collectors. Thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, extremities a trifl e rubbed, small old ownership label on foot of upper board. Pp. xii, 456, 16, with 237
illustrations. Fore-edge and half-title spotted, fl yleaves rather browned, joints cracking. [First edition] L.Upcott Gill, 1910. [32275] £65.00
791 LA SUISSE HORLOGERE. No.2. International edition in English. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers, in original card mailing-sleeve with string
tie. Pp. 48 plus advertisement leaves, illustrated throughout. La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1950. [26167] £25.00
792 SUTHERLAND, Graham. CHRIST IN GLORY IN THE TETRAMORPH. The genesis of the great tapestry in Coventry Cathedral. Text
edited by Andrew Révai based on conversations with the artist. Introduction by Eric Newton. Large square 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, glassine
dustwrapper. Pp. 112, with 73 plates (11 in colour). [First edition] Pallas Gallery & A.Zwemmer, 1964. [56108] £40.00
793 SUTHERLAND, William and William George. THE SIGN WRITER AND GLASS EMBOSSER. Folio. Original cloth portfolio, rather soiled
and cockled. Pp. 62, with decorative initials and numerous text illustrations, including 54 arms of the trade companies, full-page illustrations
of letters, shields, arms of the royal houses and ancient orders, and corners and borders. With 23 [ex 32] coloured plates of lettering, loosely
inserted as issued. Much depleted, but still a handsome work, with a very detailed and useful text. Very scarce. Manchester: Decorative Arts
Journals Co., 1898. [43746] £450.00
794 SUTTON, Ann. THE TEXTILES OF WALES. Foreword by J.Geraint Jenkins. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 96, illustrated
throughout (16 pages in colour). [First edition] Bellew Publishing Company, 1987. [65078] £30.00
795 SUTTON, R.J. STAMP CURIOSITIES. Original decorated cloth , dustwrapper (upper panel torn). Pp. 285, illustrated throughout. Small patch
of adhesion damage to frontispiece. [First edition] Hutchinson, 1957. [27165] £25.00
796 SWANN, Alan. LAYOUT SOURCE BOOK Square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 192, illustrated in colour throughout. [First
edition] Secaucus, New Jersey: Wellfl eet Press, 1989. [64312] £25.00
797 SWENSON, G.W.P. PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE RIFLE. Original boards, dustwrapper (slight edge-wear in places). Pp. 184, with 196
illustrations. Endpapers lightly spotted. [First edition] Ian Allan, 1971. [70764] £15.00
798 SYMONDS, R.W. MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH FURNITURE AND CLOCKS. A study of walnut and mahogany furniture, and of the
associated crafts of the looking-glass maker and japanner, together with an account of Thomas Tompion and other famous clock-makers of
the 17th and 18th Centuries. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. ix, 172, with 8 coloured plates and 132 text photographs. [Limited edition (750
copies)] Batsford, 1940. [18627] £180.00
799 —— THE ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS OF CHIPPENDALE. A selection of eighty plates reproduced from The Gentleman & Cabinet
Makers Directory 1762. Tall 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp.24, plus 80 plates. [First edition] Alec Tiranti, 1949. [16453] £30.00
Text in English and French.
45

800 TAFT, Lorado. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCULPTURE. Thick 4to. Original ribbed cloth gilt, dustwrapper (top edge a little defective,
spine browned). Pp. xiii, 604, with 116 text fi gures. Front hinge tender. New York: Macmillan, 1924. [23159] £65.00
801 TAIT, Hugh. CLOCKS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 55, with 58 plates. Ex-library, with stamps
on fl yleaf and title, and old tape marks to endpapers. [First edition] British Museum, 1968. [58641] £20.00
802 TAIT, Simon. PALACES OF DISCOVERY. The changing world of Britain’s museums. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 184,
well illustrated (partly in colour). [First edition] Quiller Press, 1989. [54121] £20.00
803 TALLIS, David. MUSICAL BOXES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 143, with 4 colour plates and 29 illustrations. [First edition] Muller,
1971. [53153] £20.00
804 TATTERSALL, Creassey. THE CARPETS OF PERSIA. A book for those who use and admire them. Published for the International Exhibition
of Persian Art, Royal Academy. Original wrappers. Pp. 52, with 33 plates and a map. Half-title foxed. Luzac & Co., 1931. [47751] £25.00
805 TAUNTON, Nerylla. ANTIQUE NEEDLEWORK TOOLS and embroideries. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 216, illustrated
throughout (225 colour plates). Anriques Collectors Club, 2007. [65081] £25.00
806 TAYLOR, Jeremy. THE ARCHITECTURAL MEDAL. England in the nineteenth century. An annotated catalogue, with accompanying
illustrations and biographical notes on architects and medallists. Based on the collection of architectural medals in the British Museum. 4to.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. xiii, 244, illustrated throughout. [First edition] British Museum, 1978. [36422] £30.00
807 TAYLOR, John. GOLF COLLECTOR’S PRICE GUIDE. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 294, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Stony
Stratford: St.Giles Publications, 1983. [47281] £25.00
808 THOMAS, Alan G. GREAT BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTORS. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little faded). Pp.280,
illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. Chancellor Press, 1975. [51541] £25.00
809 THOMPSON, R.H. and DICKINSON, M.J. TOKENS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 1575-1750. The Norweb Collection, Cleveland Ohio,
U.S.A. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Nos. 31, 38, 43, 44 and 46. 5 volumes, large 8vo. original cloth gilt. Illustrated throughout. A mint set
of the fi rst 5 volumes which takes the counties in alphabetical order and goes up to and includes Westmorland. Spink & Son, 1984-96. [37190]
£250.00
810 THOMSON, W.G. A HISTORY OF TAPESTRY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY. Thick 4to. Original decorative
cloth gilt, trifl e rubbed. Pp. xvi, 506, with numerous plates, many in colour. Upper joint tender, a few spots, but a very nice copy. [First edition]
Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. [16189] £120.00
811 —— —— another edition. Thick 4to. Original cloth, rather worn and a little marked. Pp. viii, 550, with numerous plates, many in colour.
Endpapers and verso of frontispiece a little spotted, upper joint cracked. Second edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. [23160] £85.00
812 THORN, C.Jordan. HANDBOOK OF OLD POTTERY AND PORCELAIN MARKS. Foreword by John Meredith Graham II. Original cloth
gilt, dustwrapper (a little defective and darkened). Pp. xiii, 176, with 46 illustrations and nearly 4000 marks. [First edition] New York: Tudor
Publishing Company, 1947. [26392] £30.00
813 THORPE, Mary and Charlotte. LONDON CHURCH STAVES. With some notes on their surroundings.With a preface by Edwin Freshfi eld.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a little soiled. Pp. xiii, 76, uncut, illustrated throughout. Elliot Stock, 1895. [23162] £30.00
814 TIZAC, H.D’Ardenne de. ANIMALS IN CHINESE ART. A collection of examples selected & described. With a preface by Roger Fry. Folio.
Original cloth gilt, light scratch to upper board, extremities a trifl e rubbed or bumped. Pp. (vi), uncut, with 50 fi nely-printed photogravure plates
(5 tipped-in in colour). Printed on hand-made paper. A very good copy. [Limited edition (No.174 of 250 copies)] Benn Brothers, 1923. [70315]
£350.00
Attractive bookplate of Theodor Ehrlich.
815 TOLLER, Jane. TREEN and other turned woodware for collectors. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine a little faded). Pp. 176,
with 32 plates and 19 fi gures. [First edition] David & Charles, 1975. [56269] £35.00
816 TOWNER, Donald. THE LEEDS POTTERY. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, slight staining to top of the upper board, dustwrapper (chipped
and torn, spine rather soiled). Pp. x, 180, with 4 colour plates, 10 line drawings, 102-page facsimile pattern-book and 48 pages of plates [First
edition] Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1963. [69879] £60.00
817 TOWNER, Donald C. ENGLISH CREAM-COLOURED EARTHENWARE. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges a little chipped
and torn). Pp. xv, 107, (96, monochrome plates) with 4 colour plates. [First edition] Faber, 1957. [69912] £25.00
46

818 TOWNSEND, W.G.Paulson. MODERN DECORATIVE ART IN ENGLAND. Its development & characteristics. Volume 1 [all published]:
woven & printed fabrics, wall-papers, lace & embroidery. Folio. Original blue cloth, top and bottom edges faded, dustwrapper (a little worn and
scratched, few marks). Pp. xiv,149, with 174 illustrations (51 coloured and 123 printed in sepia). Flyleaves a little browned, but a very nice copy
of this important work. [First edition] Batsford, 1922. [42165]
Intended as the fi rst of a fi ve-volume survey of decorative art in Great Britain during the fi rst quarter of the 20th Century, but no further
volumes were published. Describes and illustrates a huge range of designs of embroidery, lace, tapestry, printed cottons and velvets,
stencil patterns, wallpapers etc., by William and May Morris, Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, Byam Shaw, Voysey and many other now
forgotten artists and designers.
£150.00
819 TRADE CATALOGUE: JAEGER - LE COULTRE. THE MANUFACTURE’S BOOK OF TIMEPIECES. Oblong small 8vo. Original blindstamped
boards. Pp. 228, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Le Sentier: Jaeger-LeCoultre, 1999. [46044] £35.00
820 TRENDALL, A.D. RED FIGURE VASES OF SOUTH ITALY AND SICILY. A handbook. Square 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
288, with 596 illustrations. [First edition] Thames & Hudson, 1989. [63903] £25.00
821 TRIVICK, Henry. THE CRAFT AND DESIGN OF MONUMENTAL BRASSES. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped), slipcase.
Pp. 152, with nearly 300 illustrations, many in colour. [First edition, John Baker, 1969. [16910] £40.00
822 TURNER, Eric. AN INTRODUCTION TO BRASS. Large 8vo. Original pictorial glazed boards. Pp. 48, with 30 coloured illustrations. [First
edition] H.M.S.O., 1982. [27458] £15.00
823 TURNER, Gerard L’E. COLLECTING MICROSCOPES. Christies South Kensington Collectors Series. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 120, illustrated in colour and monochrome. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1981. [66662] £40.00
824 —— THE GREAT AGE OF THE MICROSCOPE. The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years. Large 8vo. Original
cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. ix, 379, with 600 illustrations. A fi ne copy of this remarkable source work. [First edition] Bristol: Adam hilger, 1989.
[69599] £150.00
825 TURNER, Graham. FISHING TACKLE. A collector’s guide. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 384, with 32 pages of colour
plates and 750 black and white illustrations. [First edition] Ward Lock, 1989. [69255]
A very good copy of what is still the defi nitive reference work on all fi shing tackle.
£120.00
826 TURNER, W.J. (editor). BRITISH CRAFTSMANSHIP. Introduction by W.B.Honey. Britain in Pictures Guinea series. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 322, with 48 coloured plates. [First edition] Collins, 1948. [16789] £20.00
Articles by Thomas Hennell, John Gloag, W.B.Honey, Kenneth Ullyett, Enid Marx and others, and some fi ne illustrations.
827 TURNER, William. THE CERAMICS OF SWANSEA AND NANTGARW: A history of the factories. With biographical notices of the artists
and others, notes on the merits of the porcelains, the marks thereon, etc., also an appendix on the mannerisms of the artists by Robert Drane.
Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, a little worn. Pp. xii, 349 with frontispiece and 33 plates, 11 in colour. Ownership stamp at foot of a few preliminary
leaves, joints tender, but a very good copy. [First edition] Bemrose & Sons, 1897. [23240] £195.00
828 TWITCHETT, John and SANDON, Henry. LANDSCAPES ON DERBY AND WORCESTER PORCELAIN. Foreword by Ian T.Henderson,
introduction by A.W.Coysh. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 80, with 82 illustrations (20 in colour). [First edition] Henderson &
Stirk, 1984. [36267] £35.00
829 UNITED STATES POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. A DESCRIPTION OF UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS 1847-1947. Original
wrappers, a little dusty. Pp. iii, 163, illustrated throughout. Washington: US Government Printing Offi ce, 1947. [68925] £20.00
830 UNSWORTH, L.Patrick. THE EARLY PURDEYS. Large 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 278, illustrated (partly in colour). Small label
on the half-title, otherwise a fi ne copy. [First edition] Christies, 1996. [70738] £120.00
831 VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM: DECORATIVE ENDPAPERS. Victoria and Albert colour books series. Small 8vo. Original marbled
boards. Pp. 14, plus 32 colour plates. Webb & Bower, 1987. [48623] £20.00
832 VOSE, Ruth Hurst. GLASS. Collins Archaeology series. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xviii, 221, with 55 plates, 25 fi gures and 2 maps.
[First edition] Collins, 1980. [31867] £25.00
833 WALDRON, Peter. THE PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUE SILVER. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 365, illustrated throughout. Price
revision list for 1988 loosely inserted. Second edition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1982. [34182] £40.00
47

834 WALKER, Christopher. RAILWAYS OF LATIN AMERICA IN HISTORIC POSTCARDS. Featuring South and Central America, the
Caribbean and the West Indies. 4to. Original wrappers. Pp. 80, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Skipton: Trackside Publications, 1997.
[61774] £20.00
835 WALKER, John W. and Margaret J. THE CHURCH PLATE OF BERKSHIRE. Foreword by the Right Rev.the Lord Bishop of Oxford.
Tall thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xlv, 384, untrimmed, well illustrated. Scattered faint spotting. Scarce. [First edition] privately printed,
Wyreham Press, 1927. [55462] £150.00
836 WALLACE-DUNLOP, M.A. GLASS IN THE OLD WORLD. Original cloth gilt. Pp. vii, 272, with 2 chromolithographs and 4 lithographed
plates. [First edition] Field & Tuer etc., [1882]. [31864] £95.00
837 WARD, Colin & Tim. IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD in old postcards. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. vi, 186, illustrated throughout. [First
edition] Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1991. [64296] £15.00
838 WARD, F.A.B. HANDBOOK OF THE COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATIONS TIME MEASUREMENT. Part II. Descriptive catalogue.
Handbooks of the Science Museum. Original wrappers, a trifl e used. Pp. 94, with 13 pages of plates. H.M.S.O., 1937. [18742] £20.00
839 WARD, James. THE PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT. Edited by George Aitchison. Original decorated green cloth gilt. Pp. xix, 208, with 227
text drawings. Fourth edition, Chapman and Hall, 1899. [52885] £30.00
840 WARD-JACKSON, Peter. ENGLISH FURNITURE DESIGNS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4to. Original buckram gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. 69 with 366 plates. [First edition] H.M.S.O., 1958. [19618] £45.00
841 WARING & GILLOW. CREWEL-CRAFT. Whence it is come and of what it does consist & wherein lies its charm. Large 8vo. Original
wrappers. Pp. 21, uncut, with 5 tipped-in coloured plates and numerous text fi gures. Manchester: Warinmg & Gillow Ltd., no date [1920s].
[18674] £35.00
842 WARMAN, Edwin G. THE COLLECTOR’S AND DEALER’S HANDBOOK OF MECHANICAL AND STILL BANKS. Original wrappers.
Pp. 16, illustrated throughout. Uniontown, PA, no date [1955]. [26476]
A very scarce handbook, which describes over 200 items, with prices in dollars based on the sale of the Chrysler collection, and with
a brief history of the subject.
£40.00
843 WATNEY, Bernard. ENGLISH BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN of the eighteenth century Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiii, 157,
with 4 colour plates and 96 pages of monochrome illustrations. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Faber, 1963. [35471] £50.00
844 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xxii, 145, with 8 colour plates and 96 pages of monochrome illustrations.
A fi ne copy. Second edition, Faber, 1979. [42473] £50.00
845 —— LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 72, with 4 colour plates and 80 pages of monochrome
illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1957. [42476] £45.00
846 WATTS, W.W. CATALOGUE OF PASTORAL STAVES. Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Metalwork. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt.
Pp. v, 40, plus 20 plates. The occasional spot. [First edition] Board of education, 1924. [17957] £25.00
847 WEBER, Christianne, and MÖLLER, Renate. FASHION AND JEWELRY 1920-1970 IN GERMANY. MODE UND MODESCHMUCH
1920-1970 in Deutschland. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256, with 500 colour illustrations. Text in English and German. A fi ne
copy. [First edition] Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 1999. [57412] £65.00
848 WEBSTER, T.B.L. GREEK TERRACOTTAS. King Penguin series. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 36, plus 54
illustrations. [First edition] Penguin Books, 1950. [23144] £25.00
849 WELTER, Gerhard. CLEANING AND PRESERVATION OF COINS AND MEDALS. Including paper money restoration and preservationm
by James J.Curto. Original cloth gilt. Pp. ix, 118, with a few illustrations. New York: Sanford J.Durst, 1976. [68851]
No dustwrapper was issued with this title as the publisher considered that “paper dust jackets are ecologically wasteful” - a rather
advanced attitude in 1976.
£45.00
850 WENHAM, Edward. OLD CLOCKS FOR MODERN USE with a guide to their mechanism. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvii, 174,
with 70 line illustrations. Edges a little spotted. [First edition] G.Bell & Sons, 1951. [19464] £25.00
851 WEST, W.J. THE MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRANCIS FRITH. Square 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (few small edge-tears).
Pp. 144, illustrated throughout. [First edition] Blandford Forum: Waterfront Publications, 1993. [41008] £25.00
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852 WESTLAKE, Ray. COLLECTING METAL SHOULDER TITLES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 187, with 120 pages of plates
illustrating 1858 items. Supplement No.1 loosely inserted. [First edition] Warne, 1980. [23313] £35.00
An invaluable work not only for the information on shoulder titles, but also for the lineage given of over 1200 units of the British army.
853 WHIFFEN, R.B. THE CHATTEL AUCTIONEER’S HANDBOOK on furniture and terms used in valuations, catalogues and inventories. A
book of reference for auctioneers, valuers, students, collectors, etc. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, lettering dulled. Pp. 349, with pages of marks
etc. [First edition] The Estates Gazette, 1937. [69245] £20.00
854 WHITEN, Anthony J. REPAIRING OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 280, with 274 text illustrations.
NAG Press, 1982. [69513] £20.00
855 WILKINSON, Frederick. ANTIQUE FIREARMS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 276, with 33 colour plates and 202 text illustrations.
Guinness Superlatives, 1977. [69556] £35.00
856 —— ANTIQUE GUNS AND GUN COLLECTING. 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper (few slight edge-chips). Pp. 96, illustrated throughout
(partly in colour). [First edition] Hamlyn, 1974. [69551] £20.00
857 WILLIAMS, Petra. FLOW BLUE CHINA AND MULBERRY WARE. Similarity and value guide. Original pictorial boards. Pp. v, 198,
illustrated throughout, mostly in blue and white. Errata sheet loosely inserted. Jefferston, Kentucky: Fountain House East, 1975. [26415]
£35.00
858 WILLIAMS, Sydney B. ANTIQUE BLUE AND WHITE SPODE. With a foreword by H.Granville Fell, editor of The Connoisseur. Large 8vo.
Original cloth gilt. Pp. xviii, 242, with 123 illustrations, many in blue and white. Few spots to endpapers. Batsford, 1945. [19465] £40.00
859 WILLIAMS-WOOD, Cyril. ENGLISH TRANSFER-PRINTED POTTERY & PORCELAIN. A history of over-glaze printing. Tall 8vo.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine faded). Pp. 249, with 8 colour plates and 159 illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1981. [69924] £25.00
860 —— STAFFORDSHIRE POT LIDS AND THEIR POTTERS. 4to. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 173, with 81 plates (9 in colour). [First edition]
Faber, 1972. [27873] £45.00
861 WILLIAMSON, Gordon. THE IRON CROSS. A history 1813-1957. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 176, illustrated throughout. [First
edition] Poole: Blandford Press, 1984. [58822] £30.00
862 WILLIAMSON, Hugh. METHODS OF BOOK DESIGN. The practice of an industrial craft. Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (chip
to lower edge). Pp. xiv, 431, with 11 plates, 76 text illustrations and numerous examples of type. [First edition] Oxford University Press, 1956.
[50744] £45.00
863 WILMER, Daisy. EARLY ENGLISH GLASS. A guide for collectors of table and other decorative glass of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Original cloth gilt. Pp. xiii, (ii), 282, with 20 plates. Third edition, “The Bazaar Exchange & Mart” Offi ce, no date. [23287] £30.00
864 —— —— another edition. Original cloth gilt. Pp. (iv), xv, 280, (ii), 16, (ii), with frontispiece and 157 illustrations. Subscription edition,
L.Upcott Gill, 1910. [43171] £35.00
865 WILSON, Sir John Bt. THE ROYAL PHILATELIC COLLECTION. Edited by Clarence Winchester. Folio. Original full crimson levant
morocco gilt over heavy bevelled boards, the royal arms on the upper board, fi ve heavy raised bands to the spine, few tiny nicks and marks, the
inner lower third of each board rather stained. Pp. viii, (vi), 85, (17), 76, 48, 63, 7, top edges gilt. Complete with 2 portraits, 12 tissue-guarded
colour plates (1 with a repaired tear) and over 60 other illustrations and monochrome plates. Title-page, initials etc. in red and black. Signs of
an inscription erased from the fl yleaf. Despite the slight imperfections, a handsome copy of this superb production, originally published at 60
guineas. The Dropmore Press, 1952. [49016] £450.00
866 WILTON-ELY, John and Valerie (translators). THE HORSES OF SAN MARCO, VENICE. Large square 8vo. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper. Pp. 248, with 279 illustrations (24 in colour). [First English edition] Thames and Hudson, 1979. [28343] £40.00
867 WINTERNITZ, Emanuel. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Small square folio. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper
(small chips to head of spine). Pp. 259, with 100 coloured plates, and numerous other illustrations. Fore-edge spotted. McGraw-Hill, no date
[c.1967]. [26416] £65.00
868 WOLSEY, S.W. & LUFF, R.W.P. FURNITURE IN ENGLAND. The age of the joiner. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 105,
with 123 plates. [First edition] Arthur Barker, 1968. [61866] £30.00
869 WOLSTENHOLME,G. OVER 900 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT POSTCARD COLLECTING. Original wrappers. Pp. (60), illustrated.
[First edition] Mirfi eld: The West Yorkshire Postcard Centre, no date [1970s]. [68937] £35.00

870 WONG, Alice (editor). VICTORIA CALLING CARDS. Creating beautiful business and calling cards. Original pictorial boards, matching
dustwrapper. Pp. 96, illustrated in colour. [First edition] New York: Hearst Books, 1992. [65399] £15.00
871 WOOD, Irene Tutt. KNITTING AND FITTING. Original cloth gilt, small mark to upper board. Pp.108, illustrated. Scarce. Chicago: The
Maestro Co., 1936. [65103] £45.00
872 WOODHOUSE, Charles Platten. IVORIES. A history and guide. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated. [First edition] David
and Charles, 1976. [56800] £25.00
873 —— THE VICTORIANA COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiv, 239, with 78 illustrations. [First
edition] George Bell, 1970. [27851] £30.00
874 WOODS, K.S. RURAL CRAFTS OF ENGLAND. A study of skilled workmanship. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn and chipped).
Pp. 267, with 166 illustrations. [First edition] Harrap, 1949. [61826] £45.00
875 WRIGHT, Lawrence. CLEAN AND DECENT. The fascinating history of the bathroom and the W.C., and of sundry habits, fashions &
accessories of the toilet principally in Great Britain, France, & America. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little darkened). Pp. xii, 282,
well illustrated. [First edition] Routledge & Kegal Paul, 1960. [47135] £45.00
876 WRIGHT, Philip. OLD FARM IMPLEMENTS. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a trifl e creased, price-clipped). Pp.xv, 93, with 24 plates and
39 text illustrations. Scarce. [First edition] Adam and Charles Black, 1961. [30439] £45.00
877 WRIGHT, Thomas. THE ROMANCE OF THE LACE PILLOW. Being the history of lace-making in Bucks, Beds, Northants and neighbouring
counties, together with some account of the lace industries of Devon and Ireland. 2 volumes, original blue cloth gilt, spine lettering dulled. Pp.
xvi, 124; ii, 125-272, with 82 illustrations. Second edition, Olney: H.H.Armstrong, 1924-30. [65098] £75.00
878 YANKER, Gary. PROP ART. Over 1000 contemporary political posters. Large 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illustrated
throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1972. [34419] £40.00
879 YARWOOD, Doreen. THE ENGLISH HOME. A thousand years of furnishing and decoration. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little
worn and chipped at the extremities). Pp. xxix, 393, with 4 coloured plates, 32 monochrome plates and 731 text illustrations. [First edition]
Batsford, 1956. [23900] £40.00
880 YENNE, Bill. BEER LABELS OF THE WORLD. 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition]
Bison Books, 1993. [30016] £25.00
881 YOUNG, Dennis (introduction). REPAIRING AND RESTORING ANTIQUES. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 187, well
illustrated. Peerage Books, 1979. [68493] £20.00
882 YOUNG, Joseph L. MOSAICS: principles and practice. 4to.Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated throughout, partly in colour.
New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1963. [16950] £18.00
883 YOUNG, W.A. THE SILVER AND SHEFFIELD PLATE COLLECTOR. A guide to English domestic metalwork in old silver and old sheffi eld
plate. Original green cloth, spine a trifl e faded. Pp. 320, with 32 plates and 22 text illustrations. [First edition] Herbert Jenkins, no date [1919].
[64169] £25.00
884 YOXALL, James (Sir). MORE ABOUT COLLECTING. ABC series for collectors. Original pictorial cloth gilt, a little worn and marked. Pp.
339, ith 109 illustrations. Occasional spotting. Third edition, Stanley Paul & Co.,. 1921. [26195] £25.00
885 ZACZEK, Iain. ESSENTIAL WILLIAM MORRIS. Introduction by Dr.Claire I.R.O’Mahony. 4to. Original glazed pictorial boards, matching
dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Bath: Dempsey Parr, 1999. [63700] £30.00
886 ZAEHNSDORF, Joseph W. THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. A practical treatise. Original green cloth gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Pp. (ii, new
introductory note)), xix, 190, (i), illustrated. Facsimile of the second edition, Gregg International Publishers, 1969. [68884] £45.00
887 ZAGOORY, Jac and CHAN, Hilda. A TIME TO WATCH. The wrist watch as art: classic, rare, extraordinary. Tall 4to. Original black cloth
ruled in blind and silvered, dustwrapper. Pp. 200, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. New York: ChiuZac Ltd., 1985. [53421] £45.00
888 ZEIER, Franz. BOOKS, BOXES AND PORTFOLIOS. Binding, construction, and design step-by-step. Large 8vo. Original boards, dustwrapper.
Pp. 304, illustrated with line drawings throughout, and with 28 pages in colour. [First edition] New York: Design Press, 1983. [68871] £35.00