forthcoming sales - Dominic Winter Book Auctions

339* Illuminated manuscript. A collection of devotional
illuminated leaves, 1899, together twenty-seven illustrated
manuscript vellum pages, (four single leaves, and ten conjugate
leaves, all but one leaf written on both rectos and versos),
comprising 25pp. prayers written in a French in a neat hand, all
skillfully embellished with watercolour vigns. and borders, e.g.,
swallows, churches, sailing ship, flowers (lilac, poppies and wheat,
cornflowers, lilies, dicentra, crocuses, roses, Japanese anemones,
lily-of-the-valley, cyclamen, etc.), one initialled ‘MS’ and another
signed Maud and dated ‘21 Novembre 99’, and 2pp. with full-page
watercolour illusts., one of the Virgin Mary surrounded by sprays of
dog roses, and the other of an angel gazing aloft and holding a lily
spray, one or two minor marks, 200 x 150mm (8 x 6ins)
(9) £150-200
340* Jazz. Five signed photographs of jazz musicians by Dennis J.
Williams, all signed and inscribed to him, including one inscribed
by Mel Torme, two by Stan Kenton, one by Lionel Hampton and
Eddie Chamblee, the other by Dick Williams and fellow band
members, each 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches and mounted, together with
approx. 30 British CDs of modern British jazz groups, all bootleg
editions or not commercially available, plus ten 1950s/60s vinyl LPs
of jazz and poetry including Rexroth Kenneth and Ferlinghetti
Lawrence with the Cellar Jazz Quintet, John Carradine, Lenny Bruce,
Ray Bradbury, etc.
(a carton) £100-150
341* Kipling (Rudyard, 1865-1936). Typed letter signed ‘Rudyard
Kipling’, Bateman’s Burwash, Sussex, 13th February 1925, to W. G.
B. Maitland regretting that he cannot be of assitance to him in
locating old copies of U.S.C. Magazine, one page, 4to, tipped into
the front of a Macmillan’s Pocketbook edition of ‘Storky & Co.’,
1922, Kipling Society bookplate to front pastedown with manuscript
insertion of Maitland’s name and number 75, loosely inserted are
two pages of Maitland’s manuscript notes, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed,
small 8vo
(2) £100-150
342* Miscellaneous ephemera, including some transport and
military interest
(2 cartons) £100-150
343 Scrap album. A large scrap album, belonging to Erskine
Fortescue of Plymouth, 1835-6, approx. seventy leaves of mounted
engs., orig. watercolours, lithos., cuttings, etc., incl. a satirical
watercolour after Rowlandson showing a fat woman sleeping by a
fire whilst a cat causes havoc and a figure looks on from the bed,
two hand-col. etchings of marine scenes by Prout ‘Under Convoy’
and ‘On the Thames’, a hand-col. moveable litho. ‘Prince Albert’s
Stock; or, the Royal Fashion for 1843...’ depicting the three Royal
children hidden beneath Prince Albert’s trademark black cloak (tab
sl. torn and creased, without loss), ten satirical litho. prints by John
Doyle pub. by Spooner, an eng. certificate for the Irish Total
Abstinence Association, and a hand-col. eng. by S.W. Fores ‘Captain
- & his two Subs’ [1818], plus a number of blank leaves, page block
loose in orig. half linen, rubbed, extrems. worn, folio
(1) £200-300
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344 Scrap album. A Victorian scrap album, approx. 100 leaves of
mounted engs., etchings, woodcuts, etc. from various 18th and 19th
c. sources, many hand-col., incl. fashion plts., military costume,
natural history, juvenile engs., an etching by John Hughes ‘The
Oldenburg Procession Through Oxford’ (torn and repaired), and fortyeight
small (approx. 60 x 40mm) hand-col. woodcuts of trades and
street hawkers pub. by John Marshall, 1805, e.g. Bookseller, Ripe
Kentish Cherries, Toy-shop, Windmills a Penny a Peice, Buy a Duck
a Live Duck, Coach-maker, Tallow chandler, Brewer, Buy a Mop or a
Hair Broom, Druggist, Hat Box or Bonnet Box, Bookbinder, Buy my
Shrimps, etc., recent speckled half calf gilt, 4to
(1) £100-150
345 Scrap albums. A Victorian scrap album, belonging to J.C.
Washington, of Congleton, approx. 120 leaves with a variety of ms.
writings and engs., incl. verse and prose in a neat copperplate hand
(e.g. ‘The Negro’s Lament’), interspersed with mounted genre
engs., topographical views (British and Continental), hand-col.
natural history engs. (mainly botanical, but some birds, butterflies
and insects), satirical/humourous engs., incl. seven cut-out stipple
engs. of French physiognomy by Boilly, etc., orig. maroon morocco
gilt, with ownership name in gilt on upper cover, rubbed and sl.
scuffed, head of spine a li tle frayed, 4to, together with another scrap
album similar (with covers detached), plus a smaller scrap book
(3) £200-300