Lot: 129
J.M.W. Turner and John Ruskin The Harbours of England, Smith, Elder & Co, 1877, New Edition, small Folio, original gilt cloth, VG; 12 fine tissue-guarded engraved plates by Thomas Lupton after J.M.W. Turner, each plate on thin card, image size 16.5 x 24.5cm. Overall 26.5 x 37cm. Text and plates very clean but loose throughout.
Lot: 131
B. Winkles French Cathedrals, Charles Tilt, 1837, quarto, half-leather, gilt, worn at extremities, engraved title and 49 plates after R. Garland; some spotting and staining especially to the last two plates.
Lot: 132
Stephen Gooden (and Campbell Dodgson) An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden, Elkin Matthews, 1944, quarto, quarter-vellum, gilt, the vellum darkened, illustrated throughout, few corners ‘turned’ o/w VG. No. 66 of 160 with a signed proof engraving by the artist.
Lot: 138
Leon Lebegue (1863-1944) a collection of book illustrations, mostly b/w with decorative red borders, but including historiated initials (14 plates each with 6 initials in red) and one hand-coloured plate; comprising humorous, erotic, romantic etc. 15 x 10cm, plus generous borders. Good/Fine (65)
Lot: 149
Thomas Warton The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster, Sampson Low, 1859, octavo, original gilt cloth VG, gutta percha binding weak with few loose plates, a few minor tone spots, plates unaffected.
Lot: 176
Brown Linnet Why Why and Tom Cat, Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1906, 1st Edn, tall octavo, original pictorial cloth, VG; prize bookplate of 1907; many illustrations including frontispiece and 8 full-page plates; 171pp + 24pp illustrated catalogue
Lot: 186
Rhymes and Roundelayes in Praise of a Country Life, David Bogue, 1857, tall octavo, elaborate gilt full leather binding by Webb & Hunt of Liverpool with matching foliate decoration to both front & back covers and the backstrip; a.e.g., marbled endpapers, original owner’s bookplate; VG internally with many illustrations by Birket Foster and others.
Lot: 188
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Etchings by Jean Traynier, Armand de Chabassol, Paris, 1947, 4to, number 71 of 150, the text and 18 tissue-guarded etchings uncut and unbound in vellum-covered binding case, printed title to spine, further contained in vellum-covered slipcase; few trifling fox marks o/w fine.
Lot: 195
Mary Benedetta The Street Markets of London John Miles, 1936, 1st Edn, photographs by L. Moholy-Nagy, original printed buckram, VG; occasional minor fox mark but generally fine internally; pp.xi,201, plus 64 photo-plates.
Lot: 197
Frances Nesbitt Algeria & Tunis Painted & Described, A. & C. Black, 1906, 1st Edition, pictorial cloth, VG; browning to reverse of advertisement leaf o/w VG internally; 70 colour plates and folding-map.
Lot: 205
Mrs. Ernest Hart Picturesque Burma, Past and Present J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased incorporating the original decorated cloth, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; occasional light spotting; fine photo-plates, maps and gravures.
Lot: 222
George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber, 1931, printed wraps, Criterion Miscellany No.31, fine; and others in Faber & Faber’s Criterion Series including H.G.Wells Imperialism and the Open Conspiracy, and John Middleton Murry The Fallacy of Economics. Good to Fine. (9)