Lot: 22
Gilbert & George, a selection of autographed publicity cards and a softback gallery guide, 2002-2021, five signed on verso. Fine (7 items)
Lot: 31
Ancoats Recreation, Ancoats Brotherhood, 1907-1919, sixteen issues of this rare illustrated prospectus, together with three 1907 4pp programmes; illustrators include Walter Crane, Arthur Gaskin, and others of the Arts & Crafts movement and Pre-Raphaelites. Some occasional foxing, one issue with a photographic plate removed, another with back cover scarred. [The Ancoats Brotherhood was a socialist workers' organisation in Manchester founded by Charles Rowley in 1878. It provided lectures, concerts and exhibitions for the working classes, and lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, and George Bernard Shaw.] (19 items).
Lot: 40
Robert de Montesquiou Paul Helleu, Peintre et Graveur, H. Floury, Paris, 1913, One of 100, rebound, with 95 of 100 titled tissue-guarded plates; poor condition with few plates & pages loose, some tissue-guards tape stained, order of plates jumbled, a few plates stained. Includes the two frontispiece coloured lithographs which are loose.
Lot: 49
Basil Kennett Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome, London, 1737, tenth edn., 14 fine engraved plates (some folding), few pages of text with small stains; together with Alexander Adam Roman Antiquities, Edinburgh, 1797, good clean text. Old worn calf bindings; front board of Kennett's work detached, bearing armorial bookplate of Thomas Hunt. (2)
Lot: 63
Nathaniel Hawthorne Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, (The Marble Faun), Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860, 2 vols (bound as one), sm.8vo, full vellum, gilt, elaborate silver clasp, illustrated with 54 albumen photographs laid down; some foxing to page margins surrounding the photographs, the photos and text unaffected. Attractive item.