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.
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.
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.
ENGLISH LIFE
WATTS, John George. Pictures of English Life. After original studies by R. Barnes and E.M. Wimperis, engraved by J. D. Cooper, with descriptive poems. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Sampson, Low, Son & Marston. 1865 [1864]
Half title & title engr.; a little spotted. Orig. brick-red cloth, bevelled boards, blocked in gilt. Gift inscription to 'Elizabeth Mary Brooker, with her Dear Papa's love, December 25th 1864'. A nice copy.
WELLS, Herbert George. L'Homme invisible. Traduit de l'Anglais par Achille Laurent. Paris: Socièté d'éditions littéraires et artistiques. 1907
Half title, 16pp ads on inferior paper, browned. Orig. white pictorial wrappers; a little spotted, spine worn at tail, small chip to rear wrapper. Wax bookseller's stamp of A. Lacroix of Cannes on reverse of front wrapper.
EATEN BY CANNIBALS
(WILLIAMS, John) PROUT, Ebenezer. Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to Polynesia. FIRST EDITION. John Snow. 1843
Front., 12pp cata. John Snow publications, 4pp cata. Jackson and Walford cata. pasted on top of John Snow cata. not affecting text. Orig. blind stamped purple cloth by Westleys & Clark, faded to brown; very sl. worn, with a small dark mark on the upper outer corner of the front board. Overall a nice copy.
WILLIAMS, John. A Narrative of the Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; With remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, traditions, and usages of the inhabitants. Fifth thousand. Published for the author, by J. Snow. 1837
Front., vignette title, plates, illus. Orig. green straight-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine titled in gilt; extremities a bit rubbed, some water damage to rear board, black sticker mark in upper outer margin of front board.
GARDEN PLEASURES
WILSON, Henrietta. The Chronicles of a Garden: its pets and its pleasures. James Nisbet & Co. 1863
Front., illus, 12pp. cata. Orig. green cloth, by Leighton, Son & Hodge, borders in blind & gilt, floral gilt dentelles. a.e.g. A very nice copy.
HAMIDIAN MASSACRES
WINTLE, William James. Armenia and its Sorrows. FIRST EDITION. Andrew Melrose. [1896]
Front., folding map, illus. Orig. blue cloth, lettered in red, blocked in black with an image of a battle; spine sl. faded, remnants of removed label on leading pastedown. With ink inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Mrs. Porlivay from S.M. August 1908'; bookseller's ticket of Nugent's London on following pastedown.
CATHOLIC NOVEL
(WISEMAN, Nicholas Patrick, Cardinal) Fabiola; or, The Church of the Catacombs. New edn. Burns & Oates. 1877
Half title, additional illus. title, 4pp ads. Orig. dark brown cloth; a little rubbed. Bookseller's ticket of Librairie Galignani on leading pastedown.
WISEMAN, Nicholas Patrick. A Letter Respectfully Addressed to the Rev. J.H. Newman, upon some passages in his letter to the Rev. Dr. Jelf. Charles Dolman. 1841
Disbound. 32pp.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES' COPY
ZETA, pseud. (James Anthony Froude) Shadows of the Clouds. John Ollivier. 1847
Sl. later full tan calf, spine compartments ruled in black & gilt, brown morocco labels, gilt turn-ins; extremities sl. rubbed. With an armorial bookplate on leading pastedown, with 'Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie' written in ink, biro inscription on initial blank: 'Pearl Mary Craigie, Jan. 1897' with short newspaper review pasted in, John Bumpus bookseller stamp on leading f.e.p. verso. a.e.g.
SWITZERLAND
ZINCKE, Foster Barham. A Walk in the Grisons. Being a third month in Switzerland. Smith, Elder, & Co. 1875
Half title, 1p. ad. Orig. royal blue sand-grained cloth, panelled in blind, blocked in gilt, spine lettered & blocked in gilt; extremities sl. rubbed, spine faded, cloth sl. lifting on front board. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith on leading f.e.p. Ink inscription on titlepage: 'Louisa Wilson from Mrs. Tottie Oct. 1903.'
WITH FOLDING MAP OF SWITZERLAND
ZINCKE, Foster Barham. Swiss Allmends, and a walk to see them. Being a second month in Switzerland. Smith, Elder, & Co. 1874
Half title, 2pp cata., pristine folding map in pocket behind following pastedown. Orig. royal blue sand-grained cloth, panelled in blind, blocked in gilt, spine lettered & blocked in gilt; extremities sl. rubbed, spine faded. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith on leading f.e.p.
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