COURT OF PEKING
RIPA, Matteo. Memoirs of Father Ripa, during thirteen years' residence at the court of Peking in the service of the emperor of China; with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples. Selected and translated from the Italian by Fortunato Prandi. New edn. John Murray. 1861
(Murray's Home and Historical Library.) Cata. on e.ps; leading e.ps sl. watermarked at upper margin. Orig. blue cloth; spine sl. chipped & darkened.
LAYMEN AND ARCHITECTURE
ROBERTSON, Manning. Laymen and the New Architecture. FIRST EDITION. John Murray. 1925
Half title, front., plates, plans, index, 6pp cata. Orig. red cloth; front board rather spotted. Pencil gift inscription on leading f.e.p.
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works. With preface and notes by William M. Rossetti. 2 vols. Ellis & Elvey. 1887
Half titles. Orig. dark blue cloth dec. in gilt; a little rubbed, bumped & marked. A good copy.
THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
ROUTH, Charles Henry Felix. The History of the Medical Society of London, Oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, on its eighty-sixth anniversary, March 8th, 1859. T. Richards. 1859
24pp, disbound.
SIGNAL CARD
ROYAL NAVY. Signal Card 1937. (B.R.232.) H.M.S.O., Malby and Sons, lithographers. 1937
VI plates; four of signalling flags printed in colour, two of morse codes & semaphore. Printed on thick card. Orig. stiff blue cloth wraps.
ARCHITECTURE
RUSKIN, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. 2nd edn. Large 8vo. Smith, Elder, and Co. 1855
14 illus. by the author, 2pp ads., 16pp cata. Orig. brown dec. cloth with seven roundels surrounded by animal and foliage design; expertly rebacked retaining original spine, head and tail of spine a bit rubbed.
RUSSELL, John, Earl Russell. Essays on the History of the Christian Religion. New edn. Longmans, Green & Co. 1873
Half title. Unopened in orig. fine-grained blue cloth, bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt.
SAINT PIERRE, Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia. Translated from the French by Helen Maria Williams. Printed for John Sharpe. 1819
Vignette title dated 1820. Contemp. full panelled calf, elaborate gilt borders, spine dec. & lettered in gilt, marbled edges & e.ps; hinges rubbed. A v.g. attractive copy.
RUSSIA IN 1856
SALA, George Augustus. A Journey Due North; being notes of a residence in Russia, in the summer of 1856. FIRST EDITION. Richard Bentley. 1858
Half title, 32pp. cata. (July 1858). Orig. pink cloth; a little darkened.
RURAL HOUSING
SAVAGE, William George. Rural Housing. With 32 illustrations. FIRST EDITION. T. Fisher Unwin. 1915
Front., illus., plates, index. Orig. green cloth.
A BRIEFLESS BARRISTER
(SCARGILL, William Pitt) Tales of a Briefless Barrister. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley. 1829
Contemp. half calf; a little rubbed. Circular armorial bookplates & stamps on title of Melchet Court, Romsey. A good-plus copy.
SCOTT, Sir Walter, Bart. The Surgeon's Daughter. Copyright edn. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. 1868
Engr. titlepage. Unopened in orig. light orange pictorial wrappers, printed in red & black; sl. dulled. v.g.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S PROFESSIONAL RIVAL
SCUDAMORE, Frank Ives. The Day Dreams of a Sleepless Man. FIRST EDITION. Griffith and Farran. 1875
Half title. Orig. dark green cloth, blocked and lettered in black; a little rubbed.
THREE-COLOUR BINDING
SERRAO, Teodoro. Brushes and Chisels. A story. FIRST EDITION. Boston, MA: Lee & Shepard. 1890
Orig. publisher's cloth, front board red cloth, spine white cloth, rear board green cloth, blocked in gilt; spine a little marked.
SEWRIN, pseud. (Charles Augustin Bassompierre) Histoire d'une Chatte. Écrite par elle-même... 12mo. FIRST EDITION. Paris: Chez Madame Masson. 1802
Front. Orig. blue paper boards; sl. marked & rubbed, sympathetically rebacked with matching blue paper. Booklabel of Joan Feisenberger on leading pastedown.
GENTLEMANLY NOSTALGIA
SMART, Hawley. 'The Works of Hawley Smart'. 13 vols.Ward, Lock & Bowden. [c.1895]
Half titles, all vols, except Broken Bonds, Sunshine & Snow, and Belles & Ringers. Uniformly bound in quarter black calf over maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed & faded, wear to head of spine, A Race for a Wife, front boards rippled & damp-affected, Tie and Trick & A False Start. t.e.g. A reading set.
DEDICATED TO TALFOURD
SMITH, Albert Richard. The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole, at home and abroad. 26th thousand. Willoughby & Co. 1855
Front., engr. title. Orig. purple binder's cloth; spine faded & a little worn at head & tail.
AMATEUR DUST WRAPPER
SMITH, John Thomas. Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life. New edn. Sm. folio. Chatto & Windus. 1874
Half title, plates, illus. Bound by an amateur in orange and cream floral patterned velvet fabric over boards, secured by criss-crossing string over pastedowns, with rust coloured silk ribbons along the outer edges of pastedowns. Ink ownership inscription on titlepage: 'Mr. Sherrath with kind regards from Mrs. Robert Kelsall Lee, June 11th 1900.' t.e.g.
A SPORTING LIFE
SMITH, Thomas. Sporting Incidents in the Life of Another Tom Smith, Master of Foxhounds; author of 'Diary of a Huntsman,' etc. Chapman & Hall. 1867
Half title, engr. front., 13 plates. Contemp. full calf, panelled in gilt, gilt dentelles, raised bands, compartments dec. in gilt, green & red morocco labels, original red silk page-marker, attractive floral motif doublures with gilt panelled turn-ins. Ink ownership inscription on leafing f.e.p. verso: 'W. Irkllum' (?). t.e.g. A nice clean copy in a fine contemporary binding.
SPARROW, Walter Shaw. Our Homes: and how to make the best of them. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Hodder & Stoughton. 1909
Col. front. & plates, illus., plans; v. sl. spotting. Orig. green cloth; v. sl. rubbing. v.g.
REPAIRS
SPON, Edward. Spon's Household Repairs: being an illustrated guide for the house owner to enable him to carry out his own repairs at a great saving in cost and inconvenience. FIRST EDITION. E. & F.N. Spon. 1928
Half title, illus. Orig. red cloth, blocked in black; sl. dulled. v.g.
(ST. HELENA) JACKSON, Emily L. St. Helena: the historic island. From its discovery to the present date. Illustrated from photographs. FIRST EDITION Ward, Lock & Co. 1903
Half title, illus. with b/w photos throughout. Orig. maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; spine faded, a little rubbed. Booklabel of J.G. Le Quesne.
STEEDMAN, Amy. The Apple Pie and Other Stories. Grandmother's favourites. Re-told by Amy Steedman. Pictures by Evelyn Beale. T.C. & E.C. Jack. [c.1909]
Half title, col. front., vignette title, plates. Orig. grey boards with a paper inlay depicting two children eating a pie, lettered in gold, spine lettered in black. Ink gift inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Harold Hobbs, from Mr & Mrs Hunter, Christmas 1909.' v.g.
EVEN BORES MUST EAT
STEVENS, Brook B. Seasoning for a Seasoner: or, the new Gradus ad Parnassum. A satire. Trubner & Co. 1861
Half title. Orig. red pebble-grained cloth, lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed, faint dark marks along outer margin of front board & on back board, spine faded. Stylised armorial bookplate of Charles Archer Wynne Finch. 47pp.
WITH ALS FROM QUILLER-COUCH
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. William Heinemann. 1898
Half title. Uncut in orig. grey cloth, lettered in gilt, blind publisher's stamp on back board; sl. rubbed. ALS on two sides of notepaper tipped in to leading f.e.p.
TRUE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
STURGE, Joseph & HARVEY, Thomas. The West Indies in 1837; being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purposes of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands. 2nd edn. Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1838
Two folding maps; some light spotting throughout. Orig. dark blue vertical grained cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded, extremities a little rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Malcolm of Poltalloch, three engravings (two hand-coloured) loosely inserted at rear. A nice copy.
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. A Channel Passage, and other poems. First collected edition. Chatto & Windus. 1904
Initial ad. leaf, half title. Orig. dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled. Bookseller's ticket of William George & Sons, Bristol on leading pastedown. A nice copy.
CONTINENTAL TRAVEL
TALFOURD, Sir Thomas Noon. Vacation Rambles and Thoughts; comprising the recollections of three continental tours ... 1841, 1842, and 1843. 2nd edn. Edward Moxon. 1845
1p. initial ad., half title, 8pp cata bound in at front. Contemp. brown pebble-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sympathetically recased, sl. rubbed, but overall a nice copy. Bookseller's ticket of Scott & Benson, Carlisle in upper corner of leading pastedown, binder's ticket for Westley's & Clark, London on following pastedown.
TAYLOR, Archer. General Subject-Indexes since 1548. FIRST EDITION. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1955
Half title. Orig. black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Green d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed at edges..
TAYLOR, Isaac. Loyola: and Jesuitism in its rudiments. FIRST EDITION. Longmans. 1849
Front. Orig. dark blue cloth; spine faded, small split at head of following hinge.
'TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST
TENNYSON, Alfred, Baron Tennyson. In Memoriam. 2nd edn. Edward Moxon. 1850
Half title, initial 7pp cata. (June 1850). Orig. brown cloth; sl. rubbed, spine faded, small mark to front board. Bookplate of Walter Flinn on leading pastedown. A nice, crisp copy.
PIRATED TENNYSON
TENNYSON, Alfred, Baron Tennyson. The Lover's Tale, and other poems. London. Fifty copies printed for private circulation. 1875
BOUND WITH: The Lover's Tale; a supplementary chapter to Tennysoniana (by R.H. Shepherd). (Only 50 copies printed.) Two works in half red morocco, sl. rubbed, head & tail of spine a bit chipped, foxing caused by e.ps. With the bookplates of Thomas Gaisford & Harold John Tennant on leading pastedown and f.e.p. t.e.g. 64pp, 8pp.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH'S COPY
THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century. FIRST BOOK EDITION. 2 vols. Bradbury & Evans. 1858-59
Half title, vol. I, engr. titles, fronts, illus. by the author; plates & text sl. spotted with some foxing, tissue guard of vol. I front. loose. Half tan calf; rubbed & marked. Bookplate 'From the Library of the late Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. 1891' on leading pastedown.
CHRISTMAS JUVENILE
TITMARSH, M.A., pseud. (William Makepeace Thackeray) Mrs. Perkins's Ball. 2nd edn. 4to. Chapman & Hall. [1847]
Front., engr. title, sepia plates. Rebound in full red calf, ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt; extremities rubbed, head & tail of spine a bit chipped. Ink ownership inscription on prelim blank: 'F.B. Frank Trin: Coll: 1847.' 46pp.
TITMARSH, M.A., pseud. (William Makepeace Thackeray) Mrs. Perkins's Ball. 2nd edn. 4to. Chapman & Hall. [1847]
Front., engr. title, sepia plates. Orig. green cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; sl. darkened. 46pp.
CORNWALL
TREGELLAS, I.T. Cornish Tales, in prose and verse. Truro: James R. Netherton. 1868
4pp initial ads. Orig. pictorial brick-red pictorial wrappers, printed in black; sl. wear to head & tail of spine. A good-plus copy.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Commentaries of Caesar. William Blackwood & Sons. (Ancient Classics for English Readers.) 1879
4pp initial ads, half title. Orig. light brown cloth, blocked in black; sl. rubbed & marked. A nice copy.
GEOFFREY & KATHLEEN TILLOTSON'S COPY
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Macdermots of Ballycloran. New edn. Chapman & Hall. [c.1869]
Orig. brown cloth blocked in black & blind, spine gilt; sl. worn at head of spine, inner hinges sl. splitting but sound. White papers pasted over black e.ps with biro ownership inscription: 'G. Tilliotson's copy, K. Tillotson, Bedford College, Regent's Park NW2.' Sparsely annotated in pencil throughout, including on the titlepage.
SANITATION
TURNER, Ernest. Hints for Househunters and Householders. 2nd edn, with additions. B.T. Batsford. 1884
Initial ad. leaf, front., illus., 16pp ads. Orig. blue cloth, dec. & lettered in gilt, ruled in blind. Ownership inscription on half title. A nice bright copy.
BARDS OF CLEVELAND AND DURHAM
TWEDDELL, George Markham. Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the vicinage. First Series. Stokesley: Tweddell and Sons, Cleveland Printing and Publishing Offices. 1872
Issued in 12 parts 1864-72. Front. port, plates and woodcut vignettes in text; list of subscribers at end. Contemp. half green calf, spine gilt, maroon morocco label. v.g.
(VAN DE VELDE, Madame M.S.) Cosmopolitan Recollections. By the author of 'Random Recollections of Courts & Society'. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. War & Downey. 1889
Half titles, 16pp catas in both vols. (April, 1889). Orig. blue-green cloth blocked in black with floral design, spine lettered in gilt; sl. cocked, extremities a bit rubbed. Pictorial bookplate of Rose Mabel Lewis on leading pastedowns, ink inscription 'R M Lewis 1890' on leading f.e.ps of both vols.
FIGURE SKATING
VANDERVELL, Henry Eugene & WITHAM, T. Maxwell. A System of Figure-Skating. Being the theory and practice of the art as developed in England, with a glance at its origin and history. 2nd edn. Horace Cox. 1874
Half title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a little dulled, hinges cracking, cloth sl. lifted. Ownership inscription of Arthur Wearhurst on leading f.ep.
VINCENT, William D.F. The Cutter's Practical Guide to the Use Of Model Patterns for Disproportionate Figures. The John Williamson Company. [c.1910]
Illus. throughout, 3pp ads. Orig. red cloth, front cover lettered in gilt.
CUTTER'S GUIDE
VINCENT, William D.F. & NELMS, J.H. The Pocket Edition of the Cutter's Guide to the cutting of all kinds of ladies' bodices, jackets and skirts. 8th edn. The John Williamson Company. [c.1910]
Illus. throughout, errata slip, 3pp ads. Orig. red flecked cloth, front cover dec. and lettered in gilt. v.g.
ARCHITECTURAL NOVELETTE
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène. How to Build a House. An Architectural Novelette. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall, Architect. 2nd edn. Tall 8vo. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 1876
Half title, front., plates, illus., plans. Orig. blue cloth; boards sl. dulled & marked, spine sl. faded & rubbed at head & tail. A good copy.
WAIN, Louis. The Louis Wain Kitten Book. Square 12mo. Anthony Treherne & Co. 1904
Left hand pages with text, right hand pages with colour illus, versos blank. Light brown cloth, front board lettered in red, dec. in black and blue, spine lettered in blue; sl. marking, but a good-plus copy. Inscribed 'To Alice from her loving mother, Xmas 1904'.
THE PEERAGE
WALFORD, Edward. The Shilling Peerage for 1863, containing an alphabetical list of the House of Lords. FIRST EDITION. 32mo. Hardwicke. 1863
32pp ads. Ads on e.ps. Orig. brick-red cloth over limp boards, cut flush & blocked in gilt; marked & a little rubbed. WITH: The Shilling Baronetage for 1863, containing an alphabetical list of the baronets of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain. Hardwicke. 1863. Orig. blue cloth over limp boards, cut flush & blocked in gilt; a little rubbed.
WAR OFFICE. Regulations for the Volunteer Force. Dated War Office, 18th September; 1863. Printed by order of the Secretary of State for War ... W. Clowes & Sons, Harrison, W.H. Allen & Co, W. Mitchell, Longman, Trübner, etc. 1863
Ads. on e.ps. Orig. red pebble-grained cloth, blocked & lettered in blind; spine sl. faded.
WATSON, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. Connoisseur series. George Bell & Sons. 1897
Half title, front., plates., illus. Orig. red dec. cloth; sl. faded & marked.
(WATTS, Isaac) WRIGHT, Thomas. Isaac Watts and Contemporary Hymn-writers. C.J. Farncombe & Sons. (Lives of the British hymn-writers, vol. III.) 1914
Half title, front. port., plates, ad. leaf; a little pencil marking, Orig. dark olive green cloth.
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