Lot: 66
The Park School Glasgow 1880-1930, W.Hodge, 1930; Merchiston Castle School 1855-58, Maclehose, 1915; Merchiston Castle School Roll of Honour 1939-1945, Pillans, 1948; Merchiston Castle School Unveiling and Dedication of War Memorial, 1948; The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850, Williams, 1863; and other school history; all h/bk, a few in d/jkt, good to VF (16)
Lot: 75
[Mrs. Charles Mathews] Memoirs of a Scots Heiress. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lady Catherine ******. by the Author of Constance, &C. ...T. Hookham, London, 1791, 12mo, 3 vols.,title page missing from Vol.1 but half-title present; contemp. half-leather with backstrips very worn but gilt title and volume labels intact. Clean internally.
Lot: 76
Thomas Edwards The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; The Trial of the letter y, alias Y, and Sonnets, London, 1758, full leather, spotting to prelims o/w VG; Beaumont and Fletcher Bonducca, a Tragedy, 3rd Edition, 1778, bound with four 18th Century tragedies, half-leather; and 5 others in leather bindings, mixed condition. (7)
Lot: 77
Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest illustrated by Edmund Dulac, and Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night or What You Will, illustrated by Heath Robinson, both Hodder & Stoughton, in original gilt green cloth, each with a gift inscription of 1911, both with 40 fine tipped-in coloured tissue-guarded plates; some occasional light foxing o/w fine. Together with 4 other books, one signed & inscribed by Helen Bradley. (6)
Lot: 78
Andrew Lang The Green Fairy Book, Longmans, 1892, 1st Edn, orig.cloth, hinges reinforced and new endpapers, VG internally; Charles Perrault Old-Time Stories, Constable, 1921, 1st Edn., illustrated by Heath Robinson including 6 tipped-in plates, VG; and 3 others. (5)
Lot: 79
The Comic Almanack: an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities …..with many hundred Illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists, Chatto & Windus, 1878, the First Series, original gilt cloth, fine; occasional tone spot o/w VG internally; plus The Female Instructor; or, Young Woman’s Guide to Domestic Happiness, Thomas Kelly, 1822, engraved frontisp & 5 (of 6) plates; tastefully rebound in modern calf, gilt. (2)
Lot: 81
Petronius Arbiter The Satyricon, Pascal Covici, Chicago, 1927, 2 vols, marbled boards with cloth backstrips; illustrated with colour plates by Allen Lewis; uncut; No.48 of 60 printed on Oland paper. Titles on spines faded o/w VG. (2)
Lot: 82
Tennyson Morte d’Arthur, Chatto & Windus, 1912, illustrated by Alberto Sangorski, 1912, in good d/jkt; plus two similar Sangorski illuminated works both in d/jkts; Laurence & Rex Whistler !OHO!, 1946 in VG d/jkt; and 2 other illustrated works. Good to VF (6)
Lot: 109
Reynolds Stone Engravings, John Murray, 1977, No.21 of 150 signed examples with additional signed print loosely inserted, fine, in slipcase; The Lyrical Poems of Francois Villon, Limited Editions Club, 1979, fine, in slipcase; and two others. Good to Fine (4)