Lot: 4
Selection of Illustrated works, mostly A. & C. Black published, including Allen Our Italian Front 1920, 1st Edn, fine; Morris Channel Islands 1920 in VG d/jkt; Menpes World Pictures, 1902, 1st Edn., with 100 monochrome plates, VG; Stapleton London Alleys, Byways and Courts, Bodley Head, 1925, 67 b/w plates; and Cundall Birket Foster, 1906, 1st Edn, with 93 plates (73 in colour); none of these with ownership inscriptions. Of the balance 6 have ownership inscriptions. Good to fine. (20)
Lot: 44
Maud Ballington Booth Sleepy-Time Stories, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908; original pictorial cloth, VG; complete with 17 plates. Some occasional spotting, mostly to prelims.
Lot: 47
Sarah Tytler Landseer's Dogs and their Stories, Marcus Ward, 1877, original illustrated cloth, gilt, a.e.g., VG; complete with six chromo-litho plates and very clean internally without inscriptions.
Lot: 62
Charles Dickens novels with wood-engravings by Edward Dalziel after a variety of artists. Chapman & Hall, 1890-92, quarto, gilt cloth, corners bumped, spines dulled, two with bookplates removed from front pastedown. Uncut, some unopened, fine internally. (14)
Lot: 65
William Harrison Ainsworth The Lancashire Witches, Routledge, n.d. (c.1888) illustrated with wood engravings by Dalziel after John Gilbert; octavo, in attractive pictorial gilt cloth, a little worn at extremities; armorial bookplate of Harry Smith Edwards; minor foxing to prelims; fine internally with frontispiece & eleven other plates
Lot: 67
Poems of Thomas Hood. Illustrated by Birket Foster, E. Moxon, 1872; quarto, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, worn at corners; 22 fine tissue-guarded engravings. VG
Lot: 84
Collection of A. & C. Black ‘Peeps At Many Lands' series including Sidgwick Germany 1909, 1st Edn; Johnston China 1929 in d/jkt; Scheltema Java 1926 in d/jkt; Liddle and Thomson Sweden and Finland 1921,1st Edn; Baikie Ancient Rome, 1917, 1st Edn; Baikie Ancient Greece, 1920, 1st Edn (2, in variant bindings); and other better. All complete with the colour plates, 13 with ownership signatures, some with occasional fox marks. Fair to fine. (21)
Lot: 85
A. & C. Black ‘Popular Series' 1922-32, most with 32 colour plates (Edinburgh has 16, Austria 24), including three with d/jkts; mostly good to fine but Dalmatia is poor. Six with ownership inscriptions. (12)