List 164 - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

145 BLAKELOCK, Denys. ELEANOR: portrait of a Farjeon. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 160, with frontispiece. [First
edition] Gollancz, 1966. £25.00
146 BLOOM, Ursula. THE ELEGANT EDWARDIAN. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, with decorations by Frank Martin.
Hutchinson, 1958. £15.00
147 —— THE MIGHTIER SWORD. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 173, with portrait frontispiece. [First
edition] Hale, 1966. £20.00
148 —— VICTORIAN VINAIGRETTE. Original blue cloth gilt. Pp. 208, with 15 plates. Few spots to the edges. [First edition]
Hutchinson, 1956. £15.00
149 BLORE, Edward. THE MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF NOBLE AND EMINENT PERSONS, comprising the sepulchral
antiquities of Great Britain, engraved from drawings, with historical and biographical illustrations. Large 8vo. Contemporary
half calf gilt, lower hinge cracking at the head. 24 sections, each paginated separately. Complete with 30 steel-engraved plates
by Le Keux and Blore (a few rather foxed) and 1 text engraving. [First edition] Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. £175.00
Includes the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, memorials of Edward III and Queen Eleanor, both in Westminster Abbey,
and that of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in St. Albans. Blore was one of the best-known topographical draughtsmen
and architects of the fi rst half of the nineteenth century. He illustrated York and Peterborough for Britton’s Cathedral
series, and provided the drawings for Sir Walter Scott’s Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland.
As an architect “Blore built up an extensive practice both as a country-house architect and as a designer and restorer of
churches. The Tudor and Elizabethan styles were his speciality, and the elevations of nearly all his numerous country
houses were based on his studies of fi fteenth- and sixteenth-century domestic architecture. As a church architect
he experimented with the Romanesque and the Early English, but was more at home with the Decorated and the
Perpendicular.” - Colvin, H.: Biographical Dictionary of Architects.
150 BLUMENFELD, R.D. ALL IN A LIFETIME. Original cloth. Pp. x, 276, with 8 plates. [First edition] Ernest Benn, 1931.
£25.00
Ralph Blumenfeld was for thirty years editor of the Daily Express.
151 BLUNT, Wilfrid. THE COMPLEAT NATURALIST. A life of Linnaeus. Small 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256,
with 32 coloured plates. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Collins, 1971. £45.00
152 BOARDMAN, A.W. HOTSPUR. Henry Percy: medieval rebel. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. ix, 230, with 8 pages of
plates. [First edition] Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003. £15.00
153 BOAS, Louise Schutz. HARRIET SHELLEY. Five long years. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 237, with 8 plates.
[First edition] Oxford University Press, 1962. £30.00
154 BOLITHO, Hector. A BIOGRAPHER’S NOTEBOOK. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 206, with 7 plates.
Presentation copy, inscribed on the fl yleaf “Clem [Lady Clementine Churchill] from Hector, September 1959”. [First edition]
Longmans, Green and Co., 1950. £35.00
155 —— JINNAH, creator of Pakistan. Original cloth gilt. Pp. x, 244, with 11 plates. [First edition] John Murray, 1954.
£45.00
156 BOMPAS, George C. LIFE OF FRANK BUCKLAND. By his brother-in-law. Original green cloth gilt,, spine lettering rather
dulled. Pp. ix, 433, (ii), with engraved portrait frontispiece. Eighth edition, Smith, Elder & Co., 1885. £30.00
157 BONAPARTE-WYSE, Olga. THE SPURIOUS BROOD. Princess Letitia Bonaparte and her children. Original cloth gilt,
dustwrapper (price-clipped). Pp. 205, with 16 plates and 2 family trees. [First edition] Victor Gollancz, 1959. £25.00
The story of the children of Napoleon’s brother Lucien.
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