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(SANGORSKI, Alberto) TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Illuminated manuscript A Dream of Fair Women. c. 1910]
£22,500
Alberto Sangorski (1862-1932), one of the early twentieth century's most highly regarded illuminators, developed his skills at calligraphy and illumination working with his brother...
Manuscript on vellum (225 × 165 mm), 14 leaves plus 4 blanks, in disciplined calligraphic hand in black and red ink to recto and verso. Contemporary blue-green... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) WALTON, Izaak.
The Compleat Angler, [1931]
£19,500
Signed Limited Edition, Special Issue. The book is signed on the limitation page by Rackham and opposite is an humorous original ink and watercolour image, signed in full by the...
Quarto. Beautifully bound for the publishers to Rackham's design by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco, covers elaborately panelled gilt with fish design in... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) IBSEN, Henrik.
Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem. 1936
£19,500
Signed Limited Edition. Special Copy. Number 9 of a special deluxe edition of ten copies containing an original watercolour by Rackham. One of the charming aspects of the watercolour...
Quarto. Bound for the publishers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco, with raised bands and vignettes of Rackhamesque goblins in gilt. The watercolour... Read more
(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) SLOANE, William Milligan.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1896
£18,500
First edition. William Milligan Sloane was professor of history at Princeton University, and editor of both the Political Science Quarterly and the American Historical Review.
4 volumes, large quarto (294 × 207 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco; spines gilt in compartments with Napoleonic devices between... Read more
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JONSON, Benjamin.
The Workes. [The second Volume. Containing these Playes, Viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of the Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse.] 1616–40
£18,500
First editions of the three volumes comprising Jonson's collected works. The first volume was published between 6 and 25 November 1616. Jonson took an unusually close interest in its...
3 volumes in 2, folio (287 × 183 mm). Bound uniformly in brown crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, five raised bands,... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) ROSSETTI, Christina.
Goblin Market. 1933
£18,500
Signed limited de-luxe edition, no. 6 of approximately 8 special copies with an original watercolour, this of a goblin offering a selection of fruit, watched by a rat-like creature.
Octavo. Bound for the publishers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in green morocco, spine lettered and date gilt, gilt rules either side of raised bands, ornamental rolls gilt... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) BROWNING, Robert.
King of the Golden River 1932
£16,500
Signed limited deluxe edition. In an edition of 570 copies, 550 of which were for sale.
Octavo. Bound for the publishers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, gilt fillet to boards gilt, twin rule to... Read more
(CRAIG, Edward Gordon) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. 1930
£15,000
First English edition, first impression, preceded by the German language edition published by Kessler in 1929. One of 300 copies. This volume combines the magisterial scholarship of...
Folio (355 × 240 mm). Original japon vellum-backed Kessler binding, beige paper to covers, vellum tips, titles gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt. With... Read more
JENKINS, James.
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. From the Year 1793 to 1817. [after 1817]
£12,500
An extremely handsome copy of this magnificent publication, illustrating the high-water mark of Britain's maritime hegemony, and the apogee of the coloured aquatint. As Roger Quarm,...
Folio (358 × 285 mm). Twentieth-century royal blue crushed morocco by Birdsall, title gilt to spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled panels to the compartments,... Read more
(BLAKE, William) YOUNG, Edward.
The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. 1797
£12,500
First edition of Blake's designs for Young's Night Thoughts, first published in 1742–6. "With his usual attention to what he called 'minute particulars' (Blake, 194), Blake...
Large quarto (411 × 317 mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, probably for the publisher, spine divided in six compartments by wide low bands,... Read more
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. 1866 & 72
£12,500
First editions. A handsomely bound set.
2 volumes, octavo (187 × 120, 180 × 120 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, pictorial decorations to... Read more
(COSWAY BINDING) MOORE, Thomas.
Moore's Irish Melodies illustrated by D. Maclise, R.A. 1873
£10,000
Number 812 of the Cosway bindings according to the printed sheet signed by J. H. Stonehouse and C. B. Currie bound in, and therefore executed circa 1929. This is a genuine example of...
Octavo (163 × 121 mm). Fine Cosway binding by Rivière and Son for Henry Sotheran Ltd of green crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste.
Les Six Voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier … en Turque, en Perse, et aux Indes. Pendant l'espace de quarante ans … 1679
£10,000
The first small format edition, following the quarto firsts of Les Six Voyages (1676) and Recueil (1678). Beautifully presented set of this highly desirable edition of the voyages of...
3 volumes, duodecimo (153 × 92 mm). Late eighteenth-century crimson straight-grained morocco, title gilt direct to the spine, flat bands, triple fillet gilt... Read more
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(ARABIAN LITERATURE) MORIER, Sir James Justinian.
[Oriental romances; a collection of his fictional works in first edition.] 1824–47
£9,750
First editions of all nine works, including four presentation copies from the author, most inscribed "From the Author" at the head of title, but the sixth inscribed to Sir Robert...
9 works in 24 volumes. Bound in handsome uniform mottled calf by Rivière & Son, boards with small Greek key border in gilt, spines gilt in compartments with red... Read more
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POWELL, Anthony.
[Dance to the Music of Time:] 1951–75
£9,750
First editions, first impressions.
12 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine set. Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) FORSTER, John.
The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A biography: in four books. 1848
£7,500
First edition, a handsome three-decker set in lavish Cosway-style bindings, housed in their original leather-entry slipcase, with portraits of Goldsmith, Johnson and Garrick. After...
3 volumes, octavo (203 × 129 mm). Full blue-green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Brentano's of New York, spines gilt in compartments between five... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works. [c.1900.]
£7,500
Edinburgh edition, extra illustrated. Limited to 26 lettered copies. A luxurious deluxe binding of Shakespeare's works.
20 volumes, tall quarto (320 × 207 mm). Contemporary dark blue crushed morocco, titles to spine gilt with centre tools in compartments separated by raised bands,... Read more
(ASHENDENE PRESS) BERNERS, Dame Juliana.
A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. 1903
£7,500
One of 25 copies on vellum, of which 20 were for sale (from a total edition of 175 copies). Although Franklin suggests that Katherine Adams was responsible for the binding of all the...
Octavo (195 × 134 mm), pp. 48 (including colophon). Bound in full niger morocco by Florence Paget (signed in gilt "F.P. 1904" at the foot of the rear turn-in), 5... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1866
£7,500
First edition, second issue. This is the first obtainable issue with the Appleton cancel title page. Macmillan printed around 2,000 copies of the book in 1865, but both artist and...
Octavo, pp. [x] + 192. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf in recent burgundy full morocco, title and decorations to spine gilt, triple line rule and centre... Read more
LOUIS XV.
Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la Convalescence du Roi, [1745]
£6,500
First edition of this famous fete book, a record of the festivities given by the city of Strasbourg to celebrate the visit of Louis XV, and also his recovery from a dangerous illness...
Large folio (630 x 470 mm). Original binding by Padeloup (see below) of contemporary mottled calf, covers with a gilt border roll enclosing arms at each corner, in... Read more
DODWELL, Edward.
Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1819
£6,500
First edition of "this remarkable work" (Blackmer), describing both classical and modern Greece. It was the outcome of Dodwell's two tours through the region, the first in the...
2 volumes quarto (259 × 205 mm) Contemporary Russia by Gilmour of Salisbury - ticket to the front pastedown of volume I - narrow bands with a dashed roll, gilt... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady.
The Old Régime, court, salons and theatres. 1880
£6,000
First edition. From the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, with his leather book label.
2 volumes, octavo (197 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun, mid twentieth century, in rich brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
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DICKENS, Charles.
[The Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man. 1843–48
£5,750
First editions: Christmas Carol is second issue; The Battle of Life has the fourth state vignette title as usual. A superb assemblage of first editions in splendid Bayntun bindings.
5 volumes, octavo (160 × 100 mm). Recent dark red morocco by Bayntun, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands with decoration in blind extending onto the... Read more
(BIBLE; English.)
The Holy Bible, 1783
£5,500
Presentation copy from the Reverend Thomas Wills (1740–1802) to the Lyon family. The front flyleaf records the Bible as being "The Gift of the Revd. Thomas Wills to James Wittit...
Large quarto (288 × 220 mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides with a wide gilt border built up with a dog-tooth and line roll enclosing repeated drawer-handle... Read more
(BURNE-JONES, Edward) Huffer, Ford.
The Queen Who Flew. A Fairy Tale. 1894
£5,000
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 25 numbered copies signed by the author on the verso of the front blank.
Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial design to upper board in reddish-brown. Tipped-in lithographic frontispiece by Edward... Read more
