(Code No. 5094)Anon.Regal's American Garment Cutter.Volume I. Sixth Edition. A Complete, Practical, up-to-date Text and Reference Work on the the Cutting of Sack Coats, Frock Coats, Dress Coats and Overcoats by the Celebrated American Gentlemen System of Cutting.Date. 1944.New York City, American Gentleman Publishing Corporation. 4to, [9 1/2 x 12ins.] . Pp 185, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, slight marks. "This work endeavours to incorporate all the experience and proven results of years of constant study in men's garment designing"

(Code No. 5095)

The Graphic an Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. 1870-71.

Volume 3.

Date. August to December 1870 + February to June 1871.

London Office. The Strand. The Graphic. Folio. [12 1/2 x 16ins]. Pp. viii, 193-216, 189-312, 409-552, 1-596, very good + Illustrations throughout. Including single page and double page views of :- Palace of Versailles, New Zealand War Canoe, Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race, Brighton Review Week, Birds-Eye View of Paris, St Thomas's Hospital on the Albert Embankment, etc, Half calf gilt, some leather loss. Heavy book. £110.00

(Code No. 5092)

GREEN, William.

Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft: War Planes of the Second World War,

Volumes 7, 8, 9 and 10.

Date. 1967-68.

London, Macdonald, 12mo, [5 1/2 x 5ins]. Pp.158,159, 191,189. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth Dust jackets, nicks to edges. 3 Volumes listing German Bombers and the 4th volume British and French Bombers. £45.00

(Code No. 5089)

GREEN, William.

War Planes of the Second World War.

Fighters.

4 Volumes.

Date. 1960-61.

London, Macdonald. 12mo, [5 1/2 x 5ins]. Pp. 192,192,181,208, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth. No Dust jackets. £35.00

(Code No. 5089)

GREEN, William.

War Planes of the Second World War.

Fighters.

4 Volumes.

Date. 1960-61.

London, Macdonald. 12mo, [5 1/2 x 5ins]. Pp. 192,192,181,208, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth. Dust jackets price clipped and nicks to edges. £45.00

(Code No. 5088)

Bruce, J. M. (John McIntosh),

War Planes of the First World War Fighters.

5 volumes.

Date. 1965-72.

London, Macdonald. 12mo, [5 1/2 x 5ins]. [Vol 1, pp.188 Great Britain], [Vol 2, pp.165 Great Britain], [Vol 3, pp.150 Great Britain], [ Vol 4, pp.128 France, [Vol 5, pp.136 France], very good. Original cloth with dust jackets, one nick to a dust jacket. £60.00

(Code No. 5086)

The Graphic The Graphic an Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. 1871.

Volume 4.

Date. July to December 1871.

London Office. The Strand. The Graphic. Folio. [12 1/2 x 16ins]. July to December 1871. Pp. viii, 648, (26, Christmas Number) + Illustrations throughout. Including :- Views of Chicago, Panorama of Edinburgh, Cricket players, Chicago buildings & a town plan, Relative sizes of ships, etc, Half calf gilt, cover detached. Heavy book. £110.00

(Code No. 5076)

Motherby, George.

A New Medical Dictionary; or, General Repository of Physic. Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and a Description of the various Particulars relating to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, &c. &c. &c.

Date. 1795.

London, J. Johnson. Folio, [10 x 14 1/2ins.] Pp xi [i.e.,xii], 739, [21] pages + 30 of 34 engraved copper engraved plates, one plate damaged and vertical creases to some plates. Original full calf, hinges split and worn, Just holding. £190.00

George Motherby died in 1793 in Beverley, Yorkshire. DNB reports that he was described as ‘late of Highgate, Middlesex’ (Baigent 2004). George’s dictionary is best remembered for being the first to list the word placebo.

(Code No. 5033)

MONTAGUE, C.E. Introduction by Haig, Douglas, Field Marshall

The Western Front, Drawings By Muirhead Bone.

2 Volumes.

Date. 1917

London, War Office and Country Life Ltd. 4to, [9 1/2 x 12ins.] . Pp. [11], [16] + 200 Numbered lithographic black and white and coloured illustrations each with a descriptive text. Original cloth with a morocco gilt title label.£85.00

Bone as Britain's first official war artist in May 1916. Commissioned as an honorary Second Lieutenant, he arrived in France during the Battle of the Somme, serving with the Allied forces on the Western Front and also with the Royal Navy for a time. He produced 150 drawings of the war, returning to England in October of that year. Over the next few months Bone returned to his earlier subject matter, drawing pictures of shipyards and battleships. He visited France again in 1917 where he took particular interest in the ruined towns and villages.

(Code No. 5013)

MURPHY. (John).

A Treatise on the Art of Weaving with Calculations and Tables for Manufacturers.

Date. 1836, 5th edn.

London, Blackie. 8vo, [6 x 8 1/4 ins]. Pp xiv, 518. Engraved frontis, Title page, owner's name in blank margin. 14 folding plates plus text tables, vg. Original full diced calf gilt. New hinges, retaining original spine, slight rubbing. £150.00

(Code No. 5002)

Weale, John.

The Student's Guide to the practice of Measuring and valuing Artificers' works.

Date. 1843.

London, John Weale, 8vo, [6 x 9ins.] Pp 108, [pp. 64, publisher's adverts] + 8 steel engraved architectual diagrams, lacks front free end paper, architect's stamp on title. Listing - examples of the stone - mason, smith and ironmonger, etc. Original cloth gilt, faded and slight cloth split. holding firm. £60.00

(Code No. 5003,kl)

Bowness. Edward.

Model Ships and Power Boats.

August 1952 + March, April, June, July, Nov & Dec,1950 + April to July, Nov, Dec 1951+ Jan & Feb 1953 + Index.

Date. 1948-53.

London. Percival. Marshall. 8vo, [7 1/2 x 10ins.]. Pp.20 (approx) per issue Slight faults + Illustrated throughout. Modern cloth gilt, slight fading. £40.00

(Code No. 4996)Gardiner, Robert . J .Roberts & D. McLean, (Ed.)Warship.1997-1998, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.(3 Volumes.)Dates . 1997,1999, 2000.London: Conway Maritime Press. 4to, [8 x 11ins.]. Pp. 232, 208, 208, (as new) + Illustrations throughout, very good. Original cloth gilt with dust jackets, very good. " It has always been the policy of Warship to publish the work of the world's foremost warship historians. Consequently, all the contributors to these volumes are established authors and recognised authorities in their field". Heavy books.

(Code No. 4995)Gardiner, Robert . J .Roberts & D. McLean, (Ed.).Warship. 1993, 1994, 1995 & 1996.(4 Volumes.)London: Conway Maritime Press. 4to, [8 x 11ins.]. 1993, 1994 ,1995 & 1996. Pp. 256, 256, 224, 224 + Illustrations throughout, very good. Original cloth gilt with dust jackets, very good. " It has always been the policy of Warship to publish the work of the world's foremost warship historians. Consequently, all the contributors to these volumes are established authors and recognised authorities in their field". Heavy books.

(Code No. 4994)Gardiner, Robert (Ed.)Warship. 1989, 1990,1991 & 1992.(4 Volumes.)Dates. 1989, 1990,1991 & 1992.London: Conway Maritime Press. 4to, [8 x 11ins.]. Pp. 224, 255, 256, 256 + Illustrations throughout, very good. Original cloth gilt with dust jackets, very good. " It has always been the policy of Warship to publish the work of the world's foremost warship historians. Consequently, all the contributors to these volumes are established authors and recognised authorities in their field".

(Code No. 4986)

The Art Journal. 1875. New Series .

Volume XIV.

Date. 1875.

London, Virtue & Co. 4to, [10 x 12 1/2ins.] Pp viii, 376 + 34 Full page steel engraved plates, slight marks. All with tissue guards. Original half calf, split to hinges and surface marks. Holding firm. £80.00

The Art Journal, published in London, was the most important Victorian journal on art. It was founded in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, print publishers, 6 Pall Mall with the title the Art Union Monthly Journal, the first issue, 750 copies, appearing 15 February 1839. The Art Journal became notable for its honest portrayal of fine arts, and its opposition to fake and misattributed Old Masters.

(Code No. 4985)

The Building Sketches.

Volume 13.

Date. [c.1880.]

London. Architectural Society, Folio, [9 x 13ins.] Plate volume, including 110, (approx), double and single page, photo lithographs of various named architect's plans for named houses, churches, public buildings & misc, etc, some folding with splits to folds, no loss. Original half morocco gilt, marks + splits to rear hinge. Holding firm. £140.00

(Code No. 4982)

Small, Tunstall; Christopher. Woodbridge.

The Architectural Turned Woodwork of the 16th, 17th, & 18th Centuries A Portfolio of Full-Sized Details & Mouldings of the Tudor Period. A Portfolio of Full Size Sections.

2 Volumes.

Date. [c.1920.]

London, The Architectural Press & William Helburn, 4to, [10 x 13ins.] Pp iv, + 20 loose plates on card, some marks. Pp. iv + 20 loose plates on card. One volume with previous owner's stamp on back of all plates, not affecting images. Printed board covers with ribbon ties. £50.00

(Code No. 4981)

Victoria and Albert Museum: The Panelled Rooms, Victoria & Albert Museum, Department of Woodwork.

6 Volumes.

Date. 1922-35.

London, Majesty's Stationery Office. 4to, [7 1/4 x 10ins.] various editions. Pp.27 + 13 plates, pp.24 + 16 plates, pp.17 + 9 plates, pp.32 + 15 plates, pp.25 + 11 plates, pp.10 + 12 plates. Original printed boards, slight marks throughout. Showing, The Haynes Grange Room, The Clifford's Inn Room, The Boudoir of Madame de Serilly, The Inlaid Room from Sizergh Castle, The Hatton Garden Room, and The Waltham Abbey Room. £40.00

(Code No. 4968)

WEAVER, Lawrence, Sir, K.B.E.

Small Country Houses of to-day. Edited by L. Weaver. [With illustrations.]

Date. [c.1910.]

London, Country Life. 4to, [9 x 11 1/2ins.]Pp. 221,[2], [8], adverts.Illustrated throughout.

The book lists 48 wonderful examples of the English Arts and Crafts style houses, interior with the appropriate furnishings and exterior views plus the floor plans, name of house and location, etc. Design pioneers of Arts and Crafts Architecture, Philip Webb, Edwin Lutyens, C. F. A. Voysey, H. Baillie Scott, William Lethaby and others. Original cloth, slight fading & marks. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. £65.00

(Code No. 4954)

The Bassett-Lowke Catalogue of Scale Model Ships.

(Bassett-Lowke Trade Catalogue).

Date. November, 1933.

Northampton, Bassett-Lowke Ltd. 8vo, [6 x 9 1/4ins.] , Pp. 269 to 351 [13] + Illustrations throughout. Original decorated covers, marked and lacking some spine paper. Listing model ships, naval models, motor boats, yachts, model power systems and every accessory for the model maker including their prices. £55.00

Bassett-Lowke was a toy company in Northampton, England, founded by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke in 1898 or 1899, that specialized in model railways, boats and ships, and construction sets. Bassett-Lowke started as a mail-order business, although it designed and manufactured some items.

(Code No. 4929)JOHNSON, John.Reliques of Ancient English Architecture, Lithographed by Alfred Newman.Date. [c.1850].London, Griffin and Co. Folio, [295 x 380 mm]. Engraved lithographic title + 79 Lithograph plates by Day & Son, lithographer to the Queen, [ as listed ]. Some plates loose, (perished gutta percha), with some slight foxing. Showing various English county church interiors and exteriors. List - (8) Yorkshire - (19) Lincolnshire - (8) Warwickshire - (29) Northamptonshire - (5) Berkshire and others counties. Some views show people and street architecture. Original decorated cloth gilt, rubbing. Hinges split. All edges gilt.

(Code No. 4907)

Claude Duflos, (1665 - 1727).

(2 Antique Engraved Prints.)

La mere qui intercede and Les premiers pas de l'enfance,

(The mother who intercedes and the first steps of childhood).

No Date, 17th - 18th century.

Augsbourg. Page Size, 16 1/2 x 23ins. 2 Very fine original engraved mezzotint prints after Johann Eleazar Schenau, slight creasing and marks to the outer margins. £175.00

Claude Duflos was an engraver and etcher: He made prints after most contemporary painters. His total works numbed more than 300 pieces, a third of which are portraits. He was a pupil of Jean-Francis de Troy at the Academy de France in Rome. Mezzotint works by roughening the copper plate with thousands of little dots made by a metal tool with small teeth, called a "rocker." In printing, the tiny pits in the copper plate hold the ink when the face of the plate is wiped clean. A high level of quality and richness in the print can be achieved.

(Code No. 4899)

Anon. ( An Original Trade Catalogue. )

Furniture Designs. 1920s.

London. Folio, 12 1/2 x 10ins. [c.1920.] Pp.30, including, Forward + 315, (approx), examples of drawing room suites, china cabinets, dining chairs, sundry chairs, sundries, dining tables, sideboards, library section, office equipment, mahogany bedroom suites, oak bedroom suites, bedroom furniture, bedsteads, bedding, hearth furniture, mirrows over mantles, palm stands, hall furniture, gramophones, pianos, rugs, etc, marks. Original printed soft covers, marked and slight split, £65.00

(Code No. 4891)

GARGIULO Raffaele.

Raccolta de monumenti piu interessanti del Rl Museo Borbonico e di varie collezioni private.

Date. 1842.

Napoli, Raffaele Gargiulo. Folio, [9 x 11.1/2ins]. 160 Steel engraved plates in outline, plates slightly foxed to outer edges, well away from the images. Showing classical urns, roman vases, friezes, wall paintings, etc + 11 Manuscript pages of index in a contemporary hand. Original boards, lacks spine, marked. The engraved plates in this work are copied from the originals in the Royal Museum of Naples and private collections. £150.00

(Code No. 4876)Gamble W, M. (Editor.)Penrose's Pictorial Annual. The Process Year Book for 1900. A Review of the Graphic Arts.Volume 6.London. Penrose & Co. 4to, [7 x 9 3/4ins.] 1900. Pp, xvi, 111+ [26] adverts. Many coloured and B/W illustrations. Advances in graphic arts, printing and illustration technology. etc. Original decorated cloth, rubbing to top and bottom of spine with some surface loss.The Penrose Annual was a London-based review of the technical aspects of printing and artistic aspects of design. It was printed nearly annually from 1895 to 1982.

(Code No. 4875)

Gamble W,M. (Editor.)

The Year's Process Book and Review of the Graphic Arts.

Date. 1930, Volume 32.

London. Humphries. 4to. [ 255 x 195 mm ]. Pp xvi 168. Many coloured plates some folding and tipped-in plus B/W plates + the illustrations of representative process work for the year 1929. Art Deco poster and commercial designs. including designs for brochures, trade catalogue covers, etc. The designs are by some the leading artists of the day. Original cloth gilt, rubbed. Spine faded. £40.00

(Code No. 4852)An ALPHABET of CAPITAL LETTERS selected from the Illuminations of Italian Choral Books of 15th and 16th Centuries.Date. 1862. London. Arundel Society, Large Folio, [575 x 450 mm]. Title, Slight foxing and dust marked. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED COLOUR FRONTIS + 23 LARGE ENGRAVED INITIAL LETTERS, vg. Plates loose, ( perished gutta percha ). Original half morocco gilt with gilt lettered title label, rubbed and boards detached.

(Code No. 4846)

The Illustrated London News.

Date. July - Dec, 1870. Vol. 57.

London. George, C, Leighton. Folio, [16 1/2 x 12 ins]. 1870. Pp. 684, lacking 49 leaves. Illustrated throughout. Double and single page views of the Table Bay, South Africa, the town of Metz, Agricultural Show Oxford, Croquet Match Wimbledon, Franco-Prussian War, and The Paris Commune etc. Original cloth gilt, lacking spine & board detached. Working Copy only. £80.00

(Code No. 4824)

Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.

Half-hours with the Telescope; a Popular Guide to the use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.

Date. 1878, 6th edn.

London. Hardwicke& Bouge. 12mo, [4 1/2 x 6 3/4ins.] Pp viii,109 + (20 pp. publisher's adverts), nick to outer edge of title + 7 lithographic plates + Woodcut text illustrations throughout. Original cloth gilt, slight rubbing. £60.00

Richard Proctor was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866, he became honorary secretary in 1872, and contributed eighty-three separate papers to its Monthly Notices. Of these the more noteworthy dealt with the distribution of stars, star clusters and nebulae, and the construction of the sidereal universe. He was an expert in all that related to map-drawing, and published two star-atlases. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(Code No. 4820)

Ball, Robert & T. G. Bonney.

The Story of the Heavens and Our Planet.

2 Volumes.

Date. 1910.

London. Cassell and Company. 8vo, [6 1/2 x 9ins.]Pp xii 314. x 315-568 + 24 Coloured and uncoloured photographic plates, (as listed) + text illustrations throughout. Original cloth gilt, marked & faded. £60.00

Sir Robert Stawell Ball ( 1840 – 1913) was an Irish astronomer. He worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. In 1874 Ball was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory.[1] In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Code No. 4814)

Mercer. Frank. A, (ed) and others.

Modern Publicity, for the years, 1942-48, 1949, 1957-58 and 1965-66.

4 Volumes.

Date. 1942-66.

London. Art & Industry. 4to, [9 x 11ins.] + Modern Publicity, 1942-48, pp, 180. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth marked & slight hinge split + Modern Publicity, 1949, pp.130, xiv. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth, marked & slight hinge split + Modern Publicity,1957-58, pp. 135, xii. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth, marked & slight hinge split + Modern Publicity, 1965-66. pp. 175, xii. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth, marked. £70.00.

100s of co-ordinated black and white & coloured design styles from all parts of the World.

(Code No. 4784)Aicken. David, (Editor) & others.Shipbuilding & Shipping Records.216 Monthly parts bound up in 18 Volumes.Date. 1948-1956. London, Tothill Press. Folio, [9 x 11 1/2ins.] Volumes 70 to 88. Pp. (approx) 800 per volume + illustrations throughout. Original cloth gilt, some spines & hinges split, no loss. all holding firm.

(Code No. 4781)

Ships and Ship Models.

4 Volumes.

48 Monthly issues bound up in 4 Volumes.

London. Percival Marshall. 8vo, [7 1/2 x 10ins.] & [6 x 9ins.] Jan -Dec, 1956, Jan-Dec 1854, Jan-Dec 1955 & Facsimile edition, (1977), for years Sept, 1931- August, 1932. Pp 384, 422, 462, 402, very good. Illustrated throughout .Original cloth gilt & Original cloth gilt with dust jacket, nick to edge. £60.00

(Code No. 4780)Bowness. Edward.Model Ships and Power Boats.63 monthly issues bound up in 6 volumes.Date. 1948-53. (Complete.)London. Percival. Marshall. 8vo, [7 1/2 x 10ins.]. Pp. 192,190, 31, 240, 239, 240, 198 + Illustrated throughout. Modern cloth gilt, slight fading.

(Code No. 4773)The Naval Chronicle. Jan - July, 1803.Volume 9.Date. 1803.London. J.Gold. 8vo, 6 x 9 1/2ins. Pp 500, [24] index + Copper engraved title + 14 Copper & lithographic engraved views & portraits, (as listed). Original half calf gilt, rubbed with slight chipping. The Naval Chronicle extract all the most significant material. Included along with autobiographical record of action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers, etc.

(Code No. 4743)

Crane. Walter, F. Day, and Aymer. Vallance.

The Art Annuals Great Masters of Decorative Art .

Walter.Crane, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.

Date. 1900.

London. The Art Journal Office. folio, [10 x 13ins.] Pp 32, 32, 32 + 15 Coloured plates + Many black and white plates throughout. Contents: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, text by Aymer Vallance; William Morris, text by Lewis F. Day; Walter Crane, with notes by himself. Original gilt-decorated cloth, slight marks. £150.00

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet 1833 – 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. In addition to painting and stained glass, Burne-Jones worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, and illustration, most famously designing woodcuts for the Kelmscott Press's Chaucer in 1896.

Walter Crane 1845 – 1915, was an English artist and book illustrator. He, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, are considered the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature.

William Morris 1834 – 1896 was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(Code No. 4731)

Holme. Charles and others.

Modern British Domestic Architecture, Modern design in Jewellery, Modern Austrian Jewellery and Modern Danish Jewellery & The Studio Year- book of Decorative Art 1907.

Date. 1901-07.

London: The Studio. 4to, [9 x 11ins]. Pp. not paginated, [appox] pp. 586, including 44 full page coloured plates & 100s of full page black and white plates. Original cloth gilt, splits to cloth hinges and faded. £120.00

Showing designs for houses, (jewellery -- French, British, German, Belgian, Danish, and Austrian designers), fans, stained glass, fireplaces, furniture, interior decoration, textiles, garden design, etc by designers and architects -- Charles and Margaret Mackintosh, William Morris, Jessie King, Frank Brangwyn, L. Baeur, Burne-Jones, Liberty & Co., Ltd, Voysey, etc.

(Code No. 4720)

The Bassett-Lowke catalogue section "A" Scale Model Railways + Bassett-Lowke Ltd. Northampton.Scale Model Railways.

( 2 Trade Catalogues.)

Dates. March, 1929 & Dec 1933.

Northampton, Bassett-Lowke Ltd. 8vo, [6 x 9 1/4ins.] Pp 148, [1].150. Title, marked. Illustrated throughout. Original decorated covers, marked and lacking spine paper. Describing model locomotives, wagons, signals, stations, signal cabins, lever frames, buffer stops, and every accessory for the model maker including prices. £75.00

Bassett-Lowke was a toy company in Northampton, England, founded by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke in 1898 or 1899, that specialized in model railways, boats and ships, and construction sets. Bassett-Lowke started as a mail-order business, although it designed and manufactured some items.

(Code No. 4713)

Kludas, Arnold.

Great Passenger Ships of the World.

6 VOLUMES. (complete).

Date. 1972-86.

Cambridge, P. Stephens, 8vo, 8 x 9 1/2ins. Pp. (Approx) 200 per volume. Illustrated throughout. Showing the great Passenger Ships between 1858 to 1984. Original cloth gilt. all with dust jackets. £75.00

(Code No. 4706)

Recognition Pictorial Manual of Naval Vessels.

NAVAER 00-80V-57..

Date. Sept, 1943.

Washington, D.C, Bureau of Aeronautics, Oblong 8vo, 10 1/2 x 6 1/2ins. Pp. Not paginated, 200, approx. Soft covers. £40.00

A recognition manual showing silhouettes, plans, technical data and detailed photographs of Naval Vessels of the 2nd World War.

(Code No. 4700)

Walton, Thomas.

Steel Ships Their Construction and Maintenance - A Manual for Shipbuilders, Ship Superintendents, Students and Marine Engineers.

Date. 1902, 2nd edn.

London. Charles Griffin and Company. 4to, [7 x 9ins]. pp. xiv, 290. 86 (adverts) + illustrated throughout with photographs, charts, tables large fold-out diagrams, reduced format working drawings. Lacks front fly leaf. Original gilt decorated cloth, chipping to top of spine. £70.00

(Code No. 4681)Wilson, Henry, and James Caulfield.The Book of Wonderful Characters: memoirs and anecdotes of remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and Countries.Date. 1869.London: Reeves and Turner. 8vo, [5 1/2 x 8ins.] Pp.xx,[1], 416 + 61 engraved portrait plates, slight foxing. Original cloth gilt, spine faded. 77 Listings of, the two-headed girl, the living skeleton, the fasting woman, the man aged 152, the bearded woman, etc.

(Code No. 4671)

MORRIS William.

A Brief Sketch of the Morris Movement. And of the firm founded by William Morris to carry out his designs and the industries revived or started by him. Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary in June 1911.

Date. 1911.

London: Privately printed for Morris and Company, Decorators, Ltd. & Chiswick Press. 12mo, 4 1/2 x 6ins. Pp 63 + 11 illustrations. With Morris' Company stamp on the covers. Original printed covers. Edges untrimmed. £55.00.

Morris was an English poet, artist, and socialist reformer, who rejected the opulence on the Victorian era and urged a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship, and community. He was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and Augustus Pugin who championed the return of gothic architecture. The idea of the house as a total work of art, with all of the interior objects designed by the architect, emerged from this studio and remained standard practice throughout the Arts and Crafts movement.

(Code No. 4670)

Morris, William.

A NOTE ON MORRIS STAINED GLASS WORK.

Date. 1913.

London. Surrey. Privately printed for Morris & Company Ltd. 12mo, 4 1/2 x 6ins. Pp 37 + 16 full page illustrations. With Morris' Company stamp on the covers. Original printed covers. Edges untrimmed. £55.00

Listing 320 Churches and Public buildings containing Morris Stained Glass Windows. In the 1860s, the main work of Morris's firm was stained glass. During this time Burne-Jones, William Morris, Madox Brown and Rossetti all designed windows for the firm, though Burne-Jones designed the most.

(Code No. 4665)

The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times, from July to December, 1856.

Date. 1856.

London. William John, Johnson. Folio, [13 x 16 ins.] Pp (4), 412. Illustrated throughout, fashion, views of towns, royalty, gardens, etc. Original half calf, hinges split with some surface loss and rubbing, still holding. £70.00

A female magazine bound up in weekly parts competing with the more male oriented London Illustrated News.

(Code No. 4662)

Wright, Thomas & James Gillray.

The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of his Life and Times.

Date. [c.1873.]

London: Chatto & Windus. 4to, [8 1/2 x 11ins.]Pp 376, some foxing + 81 Full page plates, (as Listed), some foxing + text illustrations throughout. Original gilt decorated cloth. split to cloth hinges and chipping with slight loss. Holding firm. £150.00

James Gillray, (13 August 1757 – 1 June 1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(Code No. 4661)

Jones, Charles.

Hoyle's Games Improved, Consisting of Practical Treatises on Whist, Golf......with an Essay on Game Cocks.

Date. 1800.

London, R. Baldwin..12mo, [4 x 7ins.] Pp iv, 332, Slight foxing throughout. Original tree calf gilt, slight split to hinges. £100.00

Edmond Hoyle , 1672-1769, English writer on games, He codified the rules of whist in his book," A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742)" and in successive editions of the book he added new material on whist together with treatises on Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-un, Lansquenet, Faro, Rouge & Noir, Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Pope, Loo, All-Fours, Brag, Domino, Loto, Skittles, Goff, (Golf), Tennis, Lottery, Etc. Several modern encyclopedias of card games use the name Hoyle in their titles. ... The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

(Code No. 4660)

BESANT Walter.

Fifty Years Ago.

Date. 1888.

London. Chatto and Windus. 8vo, [5 1/2 x 8ins]. Pp.268 + "One hundred and thirty-seven plates and woodcuts" including 30 full-page portraits of eminent Victorians. Original half calf, faded with split to front hinge. Holding firm. Showing life in England at the beginning of the 19th century. People, trades and views, etc . £45.00

(Code No. 4638)The WORLD DISPLAYED or A Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected from the Writers of all Nations.Date. 1814-1815.8 of 10 volumes. Volumes 7 & 9 missing.Dublin. Christie. 8vo, [5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins]. Approximately 400 pages to each volume, vg. 145 COPPER ENGRAVED PLATES with tissue guards. Original full calf gilt, most with wear and surface loss, Volume 1 describes - America. Volume 2 - Persia. Volume 3 - California and China, lacks frontis. Volume 4 - India and Africa. Volume 5 - Egypt and surrounding area. Volume 6 - Source of the Nile. Volume 8 - Africa and China/East Indies, lacks frontis. Volume 10 - Australia and New Zealand.

(Code No. 4628)

Illustrated London News.

Vol. 26. Jan to December 1855.

(Full Year).

London. William Little. Folio, 14 x 16ins. 1855. Pp 1-500, lacks 2 views. pp. 1-776, lacks 1 week and 2 pages,( printing error) + lacks 13 pages. Many large folding page views including full page view of New York. Original boards, poor. Holding firm. £130.00

(Code No. 4625)

Topffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846.

(Antique Comic Strip Book.)

L’Histoire de Monsieur Crepin. A series of drawings, with explanatory text, depicting the life and adventures of “Monsieur Crepin"

Date. 1837.

[Paris] : Autographié chez Caillet, à Paris. Obl. 8vo, [11 x 7ins.] Pp.88. (No title issued), including 85 Lithographic comic strip prints, slight foxing. Signed : R.T,. i.e. Rodolphe Topffer. [L'Histoire de Monsieur Crepin. A series of drawings with French explanatory text .] This Swiss 1st edition is very limited in number. Original decorated cloth gilt, rubbed & faded. All edges gilt. Rare Copy. £300.00

Topffer, schoolteacher, headmaster of a boarding school and professor at the Académie de Genève, is considered as being the forerunners of today's comic strips. The first comic books in America drew their inspiration from Topffer with "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck" pirating the original Swiss engraved prints.

(Code No. 4610)

STRANGE, Thomas Arthur.

French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork & Allied Arts during the last half of the Seventeenth Century, the whole of the Eighteenth Century & the early part of the Nineteenth.

Date. 1950, 3rd imp.

London. McCorquodale & Company Limited... Folio, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2ins. Pp [5], 400, very good condition. 100s of illustrations of Balconies, boarders and friezes, cabinets, chairs, clocks, decorative panels, inlays, ironwork, mouldings, picture frames, staircases, writing tables,etc. Original cloth gilt slight rubbing, Dust jacket, slight loss to top of spine. £50.00

SCHULBE, Ernest.

Cake Decoration Illustrated with Photographically Reproduced Full sized Engravings of Designs of Cake Tops, Sides and Ornaments.

Date. [c.1920, 9th edn.]

London, Maclaren & Sons, 4to, 9 x 11ins. Pp vi,86,vii-ix. B&w illustrations throughout, very good. Original cloth gilt, slight marks. £35.00

(Code No. 4559)

Laurent, Paul.

Artistic Sugar Work and Petit Fours. Craft series.

Date. [.c1940.]

London, Maclaren & Sons Ltd. 8vo, 8 x 8 1/2ins. Pp. 176, illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, very good condition. No dust jacket. £35.00.

Paul Laurent was Chef-patissier and confectioner at the Langham Hotel, London of 10 years.

(Code No. 4537)LAMBERT, Joseph A.Lambert Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries.Date. 1936,1st edn.London. Virtue and Company. 4to, 12 x 9ins. Pp.[3], xv 308, [8]. Coloured & black and white illustrations throughout, very good condition. Original decorated cloth gilt, slight fading & marks.The Lambeth Method uses intricate dimensional over piping of borders on a fondant covered cake. Scrolls, scallops and string work are piped, one layer of icing on top of another, until a very three-dimensional effect is achieved. Much of the cake decorating in the colonized regions of South Africa, North American, New Zealand and Australia, evolved from the Lambeth Method. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.

(Code No. 4506)

The Illustrated London News.

Date. Jan-June, 1856. Vol. 28.

London. William Little, Milford House, Folio, [16 1/2 x 12 ins].1856 . Pp. 719. Pages 17-18, 31-32 and 257-265 & colour plates missing, publishing error, never included + Illustrations throughout. Original cloth gilt, chipping & splits to hinges with some loss. Holding firm. £90.00

Including Santhal war in india, Dr Charles Snape charged with the death of Daniel Dolly, Surrey Lunatic Asylum, Crimea war, and the Spithead naval review, etc. Please email for postal rates.Weight of book 3.8kg (approx).

(Code No. 4502)Phillips, Randal.Houses for Moderate Means.Date. 1936.London, Country Life. 4to, 7 3/4 x 10ins. Pp. 112, Illustrated throughout, very good condition. Original cloth gilt, slight fading to top of spine. Dust jacket, poor. Listing the houses and their locations, named architects, photographs, ground plans and building costs, etc.

(Code No. 4479)The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ .....Date. 1883.London. Longmans, Green, & Co. 4to, [9 x 10ins]. Pp xvi, 540 + 60 Full page wood engravings by W. Meason, Messrs Dalzie and others, from designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Pergugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titan, Raphael, and others, Marginal Ornaments, Inital Letters, Medallions, etc are taken from the original drawings by Henry Shaw and A. J. Waudby. Original gilt-decorated cloth with bevelled edges, slight rubbing to edges. All edges gilt.

(Code No. 4463)

DAY. Charles Russell, Captain, [compiler] [1860-1900.]

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition London, 1890.... Compiled by ... C. R. Day.

Date. 1891.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 4to, [8 x 10ins.] Pp. ix. 262. + 11 Photographic plates, all with tisue guards, foxing to boarders + many text illustrations. Original morocco gilt, part of top of spine missing and boards marked. £110.00

(Code No. 4459)The Practical Mechanic and Engineers Magazine.Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, bound in 2 volumes.Dates. Oct, 1841 to August, 1845.Glasgow, G Herbert, 4to, [8 x 10 1/2ins.] Pp iv 518, viii 476, vii 416, viii 328 + 98 Folding full and single page engraved plates, 5 plates with splits, no loss.+ many text illustrations. Showing trains, (American and British). cranes, boring machines; steam ,boats, iron founding, lathes, steam forge hammer; Steam Vessel, house designs, etc. Covers detached.

(Code No. 4455)

NICHOLSON Peter.

Revised by Thomas Tredgold.

Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet-Making; Being a New and Complete System of Lines for the use of Workmen, Founded on Accurate Geometrical and Mechanical Principles....

Date. 1864.

London, Thomas Kelly. 4to, [9 1/2 x 11ins.] Pp vii, [1], 140, 36, xxxvi, 28, {1} + 110 Steel engraved plates, foxing spots throughout. Original cloth, no spine and front board detached. £65.00

(Code No. 4358)

LARDNER, Dionysius [1793-1859].

The Museum of Science and Art .

Volumes 5, 6, 7.& 8. Microscope, etc and Astronomy ,etc.

4 volumes bound in 2.

Date. 1855.

London, Walton and Maberly, 8vo, [5 x 7 1/2ins.] Pp. (Approx) 208 per volume. Dedications and bookplates. Illustrated throughout. Original half calf gilt, rubbed. Volumes with slight variation in binding style. £40.00

(Code No. 4355)

Chambers, George Frederick, 1841-1915.

A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy ...

Oxford. Oxford University Press. 8vo, [6 1/2 x 9ins]. 1877,3rd edn. Pp xxxii, 928, 36 (8). Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, split hinges and rubbing. Holding firm. £95.00

(Code No. 4354)Baden-Powell, B. and E.S. Grew.Knowledge & illustrated scientific news... and An illustrated magazine of science....9 Volumes.Dates. 1902-1910.London. Knowledge Offices. Folio, [9 x 12ins.] Pp. 288, 288 308, 314, 315-622, 290, 294, 480, 504. Illustrated throughout showing all aspects of the scientific world to date.Original cloth gilt, some wear. All holding firm. A complete set is uncommon .Knowledge & illustrated scientific news Absorbed Illustrated scientific news in Feb. 1904 and Hardwicke's science gossip in 1910.

(Code No. 4281)

The London Art Union Prize Annual for 1848.

No Date. ca1847.

London. Atchley Library of Fine Arts. Folio, [10 x 13 1/2 ins.] Engraved title + Dedication + Introduction + 30 Full page steel engraved plates, some slight marks, (approx' 4 engravings per full page) Illustrative of British Art for the year 1848. All plates with tissue guards and descriptive text with the price paid for the painting & size. Original gilt-decorated cloth. Front cover detached. Spine cloth loose. £50.00

(Code No. 4271)

The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art : collected from the various departments of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, History, Biography, Art-industry, Manufactures....

Volume 2 only.

London, John Cassell. 1852. 4to, [8 x 11 1/2 ins.] Pp (2) 408, very good condition + illustrations throughout, very good condition. Original decorated cloth gilt, spine faded with splits to rear hinge. £35.00

Showing table cloth printing, steel pen manufactory, clock factory, needle making and ancient mills.

(Code No. 4257)

Sketch Book.

No Date,ca1850.

London. Reeves & Son. Oblong 4to, [11 1/2 x 9 1/4 ins.] 11 Pages of single sided pencil sketches, very good condition. Original decorated card covers, marked. Showing houses, bridges, boats, and other unidentified sketches of architectural details. £50.00

(Code No. 4219)Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied to the Arts and Manufacturing.(Writers of Eminence e.g. John Dalton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Faraday, etc.)No date, ca1860. London. William MacKenzie, 4to [ 8 x 11.5 ins ]. 8 Divisions. Pp 1008, vg + 54 FULL PAGE and DOUBLE PAGE STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES, vg (as listed). Original gilt-decorated cloth, slight marks and fading. Alphabetical listing of chemical processes etc, Acetic acid to Zinc. Plates show - Dyeing and calico-printing machines, Brewerys, Gass works, Steel melting furnace etc.

(Code No. 4206)Heath, Charles.The New Gallery of British Engravings; A Selection of the best Plates Published in the Works.London. Bogue. 1846. 4to [ 215 x 275 mm ]. 36 Steel engraved plates, each with a page of text, some foxing, including 14 plates female beauties + 8 interior room setting with people + 10 views etc. Approx image size 140 x 120 mm. Original half calf gilt. Splits to hinges, some marks.

(Code No. 4190)

Wornum, R N.

Analysis of Ornament: Characteristics of Style: An Introduction to the Study of the History of Ornamental Art.

London. Chapman and Hall. 1860, 2nd edn. 8vo, [7 x 10 ins.] Pp.112, blind embossed reward stamp on title page. Many full page and text illustrations throughout, one folding, split just affecting engraved area, very good + 2 printed letters for the distribution of prizes at the School of Design, Norwich, 1851 and 1852 + 2 printed prospectus advertising lectures to be given by Ralph N. Wornum, 1852, at the School of Design, Norwich. Original gilt decorated cloth, very good condition. £40.00

(Code No. 4186)CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. 1792-1878.The Bachelor's Own Book;or, The Progress of Mr. Lambkin,(Gent.), in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and also in Search of Health and Happiness.Glasgow. David Bryce & Son. ca1883. 8vo,[6 x 8 ins.] Title, marginal foxing + Dedication + Additional title + 24 plates with descriptive text below image, drawn and etched by George Cruikshank, marginal foxing. Original decorated card covers, chipping to edges with some loss.George Cruikshank was engaged in a variety of undertakings. Illustrating many book of the most popular works of the day including tableaux of London "Life", Sketches by "Boz", Oliver Twist, (Charles Dickens) and many others.

(Code No. 4195)

The Building News and Engineering Journal.

Date. 1876.

Volume 30.

London. Walter Sully. Jan-June,1876. Folio, [9 x 12 1/2 ins.] Pp viii, 690, Irregular pagination + 150, (approx), double and single page photo lithographs of various architect's plans of houses, churches, public buildings,etc, water staining to last few plates. Original half morocco gilt, marks + splits to rear hinge. Holding firm. £220.00

(Code No. 4177)Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir. [1840-1913.].An Atlas of Astronomy. A Series of Seventy -Two Plates...London. George Philip & Son.1892,1st edn. 8vo, [8 x 8 1/4 ins.] Pp xi + pp. 57 Introduction + 72 plates with tissue guards + pp. 17 Index, scattered foxing spots throughout. Original gilt decorated cloth, split hinges and split to spine cloth. Book plate on front free end paper. All edges gilt.

(Code No. 4138)The Illustrated London News.July to December 1872. Vol. 61.London. George, C, Leighton. 1872. Folio, [16 1/2 x 12 ins]. Pp. 640. Illustrated throughout. Lacks Plymouth View, (as usual). Double and single page views of, bird's-eye view of Boston, U.S.A, pinhole binding holes at centrefold. Iceland, London Bridge, game of Crouquet, Archery, view of Inverness, diamond diging in South Africa, City of Salisbury, Stanley in Africa, Brighton, etc + 3 printed coloured plates. Original cloth gilt, chipping & splits to hinges and fading. Holding firm. Please email for postal rates.Weight of book 3.8kg (approx).

(Code No. 4137)The Illustrated London News.Jan-June, 1871. Vol. 58.London. George, C, Leighton. 1871. Folio, [16 1/2 x 12 ins]. Pp. 652, very good condition. Illustrated throughout. double and single page views of the Franco-Prussian War, The Paris Commune etc. Original cloth gilt, chipping and fading. Please email for postal rates. Weight of book 3.8kg (approx).

(Code No. 3962)

Leitch, R. P.

A Course of Sepia Painting with Twenty-four Plates.

London. Cassell Petter & Galpin & Co. ca1880, 2nd edition. 8vo, [10 x 7 1/2 ins.] Pp 32, (4) adverts, very good + 24 Full page sepia plates, very good . Dedication on front free endpaper. Original cloth gilt, slight rubbing. £35.00

(Code No. 3961)Popular Drawing Copies.London, Petter. Oblong 8vo, Full page plates. Showing drawing examples of :- Floral & vegetable, floral & vegetable forms, model drawing, hexagonal prisms, etc. Original half calf gilt,

(Code No. 3874)

Ferenchich. Gabor von.

Four Original Dog Paintings.

Austria. ca1905. Page sizes 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins to 14 x 9 ins (approx). 4 Original Dog Indian ink on paper sketches by Gabor von Ferenchich, he was a Viennese illustrator of the turn of the 20th century and a collaborator of various magazines. £450.00

(Code No. 3913)London. George, C, Leighton. 1859. Folio, [16 1/2 x 12 ins]. Pp. 624 . Illustrated throughout. Double page View of The West-End Railway District, London and birds-eye view of Battersea Chelsea , Christmas pantomime, Costom house Folkestone. Full page views of Palace at Muswell-hill, birds-eye view of Exeter College Oxford, Albert Viaduct Saltash, etc. Original cloth gilt, chipping and fading. Please email for postal rates.

(Code No. 3911)London: The Strand. Jan to June 1872. Folio. 12 x 16 ins. Pp, 618. Many woodut engravings, including 19 Double page plates. Views, sport, Australian & Indian life, etc. Covers detached.

(Code No. 3903)London : Tilt and Bogue, Bradbury and Evans [printers] . [1841?] 8vo, [14 x 23cm]. 81 of 84 plates (incl. title page.) : all illustrations no text (as issued). Original full morocco gilt, rubbing with slight surface loss. (With All Faults). Working copy only of this very rare work.

(Code No. 3887)London. William John, Johnson. 1858. Folio, [13 x 16 ins.] Pp 416, 416. Illustrated throughout, fashion, bird's eye views of towns, royalty, gardens, etc. Original half calf. Hinges split with some surface loss and rubbing, still holding.

A rare female magazine (2 January 1847 - 27 June 1863 Incorporated with The Queen), bound up into weekly parts competing with the more male dominated Illustrated London News.

(Code No. 3885).London. William John, Johnson. 1859 Folio, [13 x 16 ins.] Pp (4), 440, 514. Illustrated throughout, fashion, many double page bird's eye views of towns, royalty, gardens, etc. Original half calf. Hinges, slight split with some surface loss.

(Code No. 3886)London. William John, Johnson. 1856. Folio, [13 x 16 ins.] Pp (4), 412. Illustrated throughout, fashion, bird's eye views of towns, royalty, gardens, etc. Original half calf, hinges split with some surface loss and rubbing, still holding.A rare female magazine bound up in weekly parts competing with the more male dominated Illustrated London News.

(Code No. 3846).London Office. The Strand. The Graphic. April - December 1888. Folio. Pp 361-696, 1-692. Illustrated throughout, one large folding, 3 coloured (as listed). Half morocco gilt, rubbed. Showing sections on, sports including tennis, cricket etc, two references to the Jack the Ripper murders, life in Ireland, Yellowstone Park illustrated and foreign travel etc.

(Code No. 3776).Japanese Printed Woodblock Medical Books.7 Volumes.8vo, [ 9 x 6 ins ]. ca1900. Pp. (approx), 70 per volume. Many text and full page woodblock anatomical plates, printed on to folded hand-made crepe paper, slight worm damage, Japanese card binding, slight worm damage.

(Code No. 2430).

"LONDON TAILOR" Fashions, Publications, etc. Prospectus, Catalogue, and Trimming and Woollen Directory.

London. T.H.Holding. Spring 1895. 8vo [5 x 7 1/2 ins]. Pp 30, with text and full page illustrations throughout. Original printed covers,vg. A rare illustrated fashion trade prospectus for T.H. Holding of 7, Maddox Street, Cheapside, London. Tailoring publications, Patterns, Livery cuttings, School for Cutting and Uniforms etc. At the end of the prospectus, a Woollen Manufacturers Directory. £45.00

(Code No. 3741).Head, Francis Bond. Sir."Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an Old Man"London. John Murray. 1834, 3rd edn. 12mo, [4 1/2 x 7 ins.] Engraved lithographic frontis+ Engraved title + Aditional title (as above, v blank) + pp. iii-iv Contents (v blank) + pp. (1) plate list (v blank) + pp.1-381 text + pp. (2) adverts + 9 Engraved lithographic plates, (as listed), foxing spots. Original pictorial boards, new hinges, retaining the original spine, rubbed with some surface loss. Ref ; Eric Quayle. "An important landmark in publisher's binding styles. Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, An Old Man, 1834, by Francis Bond Head, was the first fully cloth-bound book to feature pictorial boards" The book describes in detail a voyage from England to Rotterdam and then on through Germany.

(Code No. 3702)

MONRO, ALEXANDER.

Volume 4 only, of 4 volumes, (plate volume.)

Outlines of the Anatomy of the Human Body, in Its Sound and Diseased State .

Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. 1813, 1st edition. 8vo. [ 8 x 9 ins]. Title page, part of blank margin missing + Outline of Anatomy...(v. blank) + Dedication  (v. blank) + Advertisement (v. blank) + pp. 1 to 15 List & description of plates + 47 Stipple and etches plates, some folding, (as listed) & a few hand coloured, slight foxing. Original trade boards, part of spine paper missing, split hinges, still holding firm. 
£110.00

(Code No. 5012)

STRONG S. Arthur:

THE NATIONAL GALLERY. One Hundred and Seven Photogravures Directly Reproduced From The Original Paintings In The National Gallery.

Date. [c. 1900.]

London.133 Old Bond Street. The Berlin Photographic Company.Atlas Folio [695-x 550 mm] Title + Introduction + List of plates + 107 LOOSE PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES [as issued] . All with tissue guards, vg. [ Approx image sizes 420 x 375 mm to 250 x 205 mm.] Publishers blind stamp outside the plate mark, 3 plates foxed and damaged, no loss to engraved surface. Original full morocco portfolio, gilt-tooled decorated Royal Coat of Arms on front cover within an elaborate gilt decorated floral design border. Rubbing to edges, vg. These late 19th century engraved prints with a plate mark are not photographs. Taken from the paintings by J. Constable, 2 - Gainsborough, 4 - Hogarth 6, [A la Mode series] - Reynold, 4 - J. M. W Turner, 7- Rembrandt,14 - Raphae, l 4 and Valazquez, 6.etc. . £1,000.00

(Code No. 3683)THE MASTERPIECES OF THE MUSEO DEL PRADO One Hundred and Ten Photogravures Directly Reproduced from the Original Paintings in the National Gallery at Madrid.London.133 Old Bond Street. The Berlin Photographic Company. 1900. Atlas Folio [695-x 550 mm]. Title + List of plates + 110 LOOSE PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES, with tissue guards, vg. (as listed), Approx image sizes 420 x 375 mm to 250 x 205 mm . Publishers blind stamp outside the plate mark, Original full morocco portfolio, gilt-tooled decorated Spanish Coat of Arms within an elaborate gilt decorated floral design border. Rubbing to edges vg. Taken from the paintings by Velasquez {37], Titian [20], and others. These late 19th century engraved prints with a plate mark are not photographs.

(Code No. 3682)London.133 Old Bond Street. + LOOSE PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES [as issued] with tissue guards, vg. They were taken from tpaintings by Rembrandt.A.Van Dyck and others. Original full morocco portfolio with a gilt-tooled border. Rubbing to edges, vg.

(Code No. 3637)

Mitford, A. B.

Tales of Old Japan.

London. Macmillan and Co. 1874, 2nd edn. 8vo, [5 1/2 x 7 1/2 ins]. Frontis + xii, Text pp.1 to 383 + pp. 54 publisher's catalogue + 30 full-page plates, (as listed), vg. Original decorated cloth gilt, slight marks. The book describes the fast disappearing old Japanese civilization. The author judiciously leaves the Japanese to tell the legends and narratives in their own way. £88.00

(Code No. 3636)Five Orders of Architecture; A Theoretical and Practical Treatise,with the opinions of Sir William Chambers.London. Thomas Kelly. 1840. 4to [275 x 220 mm.] Pp 163, slight foxing, split to title page just affecting engraved area. 100 Steel engraved architectural plates, as list (4 folding.) Foxing throughout. Original half calf, marbled boards, poor condition. The plans include front elevations of houses, villas, mansions etc.

(Code No. 3635).London. Jones & Co. ca1830. 4to, [9 x 11 ins]. Frontis + Engraved title + Text pp.1 to 160 + 188 Steel engraved plates on 79 pages, slight foxing throughout. Original half calf, poor condition.

(Code No. 3634)London. William Little. 1853. Folio, 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins. Pp 552 + Woodcut illustrations throughout, some minor nicks to edges. Original half calf, rubbing with very slight loss.

(Code No. 3630)

Specifications of Inventions.Patens, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.

Patent Office. London, 1893, 4to, 200 x 295 mm or 8 x 11 ins. (Approx) 100 Text Specifications of Inventions with (approx), 127 folding design illustrations. Showing aerial machine, time recorders, dish- washing machine, typewriters, Improved spectacles, Improved umbrellas etc. Slight water staining to a few blank margins, vg. Original cloth gilt. Worn. Tight copy. £120.00

(Code No. 3629)

Wheatley, F.

(4 Antique Mezzotint Prints.):

The Rapacious Steward or Unfortunate Tenant, Nuptial Blessing, and 2 x The Soldier's Return,

London. Date, ca1800. Image sizes 14 x 17 ins and 24 x 18 ins, (approx). 4 Original mezzotints prints taken from the drawings by F. Wheatley, J B. Greuze & W.R.Bigg, cropped and nicks to edges.

Mezzotinting is a method of engraving on copper or steel, in which the whole plate is roughened and parts are then scraped smooth or left rough to obtain light or dark surfaces... Guaranteed to be over 180 years old. £70.00

(Code No. 3627)

Bunbury. Henry William, 1750 - 1811:

"Falstaff reproved by King Henry"

Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 8.,

London. Ca1800. Image size 18 x 14 1/2 ins, (approx). 3 Original Line and stipple coloured engravings by Shenner, nicks to edges and cropped. Guaranteed to be ovey 180 years old. £60.00

(Code No. 3624)Simpson, William.(19 Antique Prints.)The Seat of War in the East.London: Paul & Dominic Cobnaghi & Co. 1856. Folio,Page size 22 x 15 ins. Engraved lithographic title + 19 of 41 Lithographic plates in sepia, (No Text or Covers), marks and marginal nicks. The Crimean War was the first recorded by photographs. Another legacy of the Crimean War was that the world became aware of the suffering of the wounded soldiers, where Nurse Florence Nightingale became famous.The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1853 until 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and (to some extent) the Ottoman Empire on the other.

(Code No. 3620)Friendship's Offering; or,The Annual Remembrance: A Christmas Present, or NEW YEAR'S GIFT, for 1825.London: Lupton Relfe. 1825. 12mo, [3 3/4 x 5 1/2 ins]. Frontis + Hand coloured engraved title + Additional title + Engraved dedication + Text 1 to 291, slight foxing + 9 Full page engraved plates, slight foxing + (61) Memorandum diary with English town vignette views. Original cloth gilt.

(Code No. 3638)Rome. Paris. ca1870. Folio, [20 1/2 x 14 ins.] 29 Albumen photographs of Rome by E. Verzashi, (stamped on verso) + 25 Albumen photographs of Paris by E. Ziegler & an other?, (some stamped on recto). Image size of Verzashi's photos,10 x 6 1/2 ins to 10 1/2 x 8 ins (approx). Image size of Ziegler's photos, 6 x 8 ins to 11 x 8 1/2 ins, (approx). Showing:- Views, Statues, Antiquities, etc. Original half morocco gilt with raised spine bands, rubbed.

(Code No. 3622)

The Art Journal. 1862. New Series. Volume 1.

London. James S. Virtue. 1862. 4to, [10 x 13 ins]. Title page (v. blank) + Dedication (v. blank) + Plate list + Contents vi to viii + Text 1 to 244 + Text 1 to 60. + 26 Full page steel engraved plates, slight marks to blank margins. Text illustrations throughout + 4 Full page woodcuts. Original half calf, split to front hinge. £90.00

(Code No. 3621)London. Blades, East & Blades. 1886. Folio, [11 1/2 x 15 ins]. Title page (v. blank) + Preface (3) (v. blank) + Contents (v. blank) + Plate list + Text 1 to 289 + Corrigenda (v. blank) + 45 Black & white and coloured plates, views, maps, etc, (as listed), slight foxing. Original decorated cloth gilt, part of spine missing. Top edge gilt.

(Code No. 3619).Printed pages 600 (approx). Full page and text woodcut illustrations throughout. Slight splits to a few blank margins. Not all weekly parts present. Covers detached. The Pictorial Times was in direct competition with the London Illustrated News, almost identical in lay out, but unfortunately it lost the publishing battle with the I.L.N after poor sales results, ceasing publication 8th January 1848..

(Code No. 3606)

LEDWICH. Edward.

Antiquities of Ireland. Second Edition, with additions and Corrections. to which is added, A Collection of Miscellaneous Antiquities.

Dublin, Printed by John Jones... 1804, 2nd edn. 4to, [ 9 x 11 1/2 ins.] Frontispiece + Engraved vignette title (v. blank) + Additional title (v. blank) + Preface pp. (2), foxing + Contents pp. (2), foxing + Antiquities...., foxing + Subscribers pp. (9), foxing, creased, loose + Text pp. 1 to 526, some foxing + Index pp. (11), slight foxing + Plate list. Including 40 copper engraved plates, one folding, foxing. Original full diced calf, covers detached. £120.00

(Code No. 3599)

Smith. John Thomas.

Antiquities of Westminster; the Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c.&c. Containing Two Hundred and Forty-six Engravings of Topographical Objects, of which One Hundred and Twenty-two no longer remain.

London. T. Bensley. 4to, [11 x 13 ins]. June 9th 1807. Volume 1 only, (as published). Half title ( v. blank ) + Title as above ( v. blank ) + Dedication ( v. blank ) + Advertisement pp. (2) + Preface pp. v-xv ( v. blank ) + List of Plates ( v. blank ) + Text pp. 1-272 + List of Subscribers pp. 273 -276. 100 plus engraved plates, (aquatints, etched and lithographic plates), on 38 pages (as listed,) including 14 contemporary hand coloured, some heightened in gold & gum arabic. Lacks plate at page 30. Lithographic plate at pages 48, (first lithograph to appear in an English plate book). Modern cloth gilt. £300.00

(Code No. 3591)

SCRAP BOOK.

England. ca1860. 4to [10 x 11 1/2 ins.] 50 Hand written text pages + 6 Pencil sketches, views + 27 Watercolours, (13) Indian trades' men, painted on mica, also views and botany, etc + 9 Hand coloured prints + 3 Uncoloured prints. Original full morocco with blind stamped and gilt-tooled designs, rubbed and slight split to front hinge. £180.00

(Code No.3586)

90 Photographs of 1920-30s. Silent Film Stars and Stage Actors.

British & American Stars.

Approx sizes 9 1/2 x 7 ins to 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 ins. Most photographs signed with a few letters of acknowledgment. The rest with facsimile signatures. Actors Shown:- Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Bobby Howes, Ronald Colman, Ivor Novello, Bromley Davenport, Gibb McLaughlin, etc. All the letters were addressed to a Mr. James Bellinger. £340.00

(Code No. 3585)The Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.1863-71. Folio [415 x 295 mm.] 42 Steel engraved plates with a separate index accompanying each plate, vg. (As Listed). Approx image size 255 x 170 mm. Original half calf with raised spine bands gilt, rubbed. Cloth boards, marked. Marbled edges and endpapers.

(Code No. 3578)

HOOPER, William.

Rational Recreations, In which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy are clearly and Copiously Elucidated, by a Series of Easy, Entertaining, Interesting Experiments.

4 Volumes.

London. B, Law & Son. 1794, 4th edn. 8vo [9 x 6 ins]. Pp xvi 267. xii 280. xii 296. xi 367. Pages 289-304, vol 4, part of blank margins missing not affecting text. 65 COPPER ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES,vg. (As listed). Original trade boards. Original paper spine labels with hand written titles, chipped. Edges uncut. The book deals with the separation of the fraudsters from genuine scientific experiments, visual illusions, wind-powered transport, experiments in optics, portable camera obscura, magic lanterns, photography, optical toys, early cinematic devices and pyrotechnics,etc. £950.00

(Code No. 3571London: J. S. Virtue & Co: Ltd. 1898. Folio. [13 x 19 ins.] Pp. 8, adverts, one page loose + Full page colour frontis + pp. 1 - 31 text, included 4 tipped in colour plates & 2 full page plates, 1 coloured + many text illustrations + tipped in post card size advert for "Monkey Brand Soap" + (1) advert. Pictorial soft covers, loose. chipped edges and dust soiled. Some of the adverts relate to Walter Crane's designs and books etc.

(Code No. 3572)

MAYHEW Henry & Illustrated by Birket Foster.

The Rhine and its Picturesque Scenery. Rotterdam to Mayence.

London. David Bogue. 1856. 4to, (7 x 9 1/2 ins). Pp vi 386, (2) adverts. Engraved frontis + Engraved vignette title page + Additional title page + Contents + List of plates + 18 Steel engraved plates, (as listed), very good, all with tissue guards. Original embossed ornamental cloth boards gilt, Poor. All edges gilt. £120.00

(Code No. 3567)The Art-Union: Monthly Journal of The Fine Arts, and the Arts, Decorative, and Ornamental.Volume 9.London. Palmer and Clayton. 4to [ 10 x 11 1/2 ins.] 1847. Pp 416, (clxcii adverts), slight foxing +24 Steel engraved plates including one chromolithograph,foxing + Text & full page illustrations throughout. Original half morocco gilt, some loss to bottom of spine.The Art-Union first published in 1839, it became the Art Journal in 1849.

(Code No. 3562)London. J. Cooke: Folio, [10 x 15 1/2 ins]. nd, ca1777. Pp. 871. 91 Full page copper engraved plates, ( 97 Plates called for in "Plate List" ). Title page calls for 100 plates. Unstable binding errors throughout.Original full calf gilt, raised spine bands with gilt-tooled panels, rubbed with slight loss.

(Code No. 3541)London.The Graphic. Folio [11 1/2 x 16 ins.] 1880 to 1889. Printed pages, approx 720, including 5 Double page and 2 single page chromolithographic, (colour printed) plates, very good + Double page & single page black & white Illustrations throughout, very good. Binding, poor. This volume was bound up by The Graphic Company to illustrate the most interesting events of the 1880s.

(Code No. 3550)Pevsner, Nikolaus. BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND.3 Volumes.Buckinghamshire + Suffolk + Oxfordshire.London. Penguin Books. 8vo. Buckinghamshire (ISBN: 0140710191),D/j, very good + Suffolk (ISBN: 0140710205),D/j, very good + Oxfordshire, (ISBN: 0140710450), D/j, very good.

(Code No. 3549)Pevsner, Nikolaus. BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND.3 Volumes.Cambridgeshire + Norfolk, Norwich & North-East + Norfolk North-West & South.London. Penguin Books & Yale. 8vo. Cambridgeshire (ISBN: 0300095864), unopened still in its sealed plastic cover + North-East Norfolk and Norwich (ISBN: 014071023X), unopened still in its sealed plastic cover + North-West & South Norfolk, (ISBN: 0140710248), D/j, very good.

(Code No. 3548)Pevsner, Nikolaus. BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND.3 Volumes.GLOUCESTERSHIRE, The Cotswolds. + GLOUCESTERSHIRE, The Vale and the Forest of Dean + HEREFORDSHIRE.London. Penguin Books, 8vo. Gloucestershire, ISBN: 014071040X, D/j slight nick to top of spine + Gloucestershire, ISBN: 0140710418,D/j , very good + Herefordshire, ISBN: 0140710256, D/j slight nick to top of spine.

(Code No. 3547)Pevsner, Nikolaus. BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND.3 Volumes.South Lancashire + Cheshire + Shropshire.London. Penguin Books, 8vo. South Lancashire, ISBN: 0140710361, D/j very good + Cheshire, ISBN: 0140710426, D/j, Small piece missing from top of spine + Shropshire, ISBN: 0140710167, D/j ,very good.

(Code No. 3546)Nikolaus Pevsner, (ed). & Hubbard Edward. (BUILDINGS OF WALES).2 Volumes.POWYS, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire & Breconshire + CLWYD, Denbighshire and Flintshire.London. Penguin Books, University of Wales Press. 8vo. Powys, (ISBN: 0300096275), D/j very good + Clwyd, (ISBN 0140710515), D/j, slight nick to top of spine.

(Code No. 3545)London: Penguin Books Ltd and Yale University Press (2), 8vo. North Riding ISBN: (0300096658),unopened still in its sealed plastic cover + West Riding, (0300096623), unopened still in its sealed plastic cover + York & East Riding, ISBN: 0140710434, D/j, very good + County Durham, ISBN: 0140710094. D/j price clipped,

(Code No. 3539)New Zealand. Wellington. 8vo [5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins.] 1903. Pp (8) adverts 1-128 text. 129 -168 adverts, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial soft covers, slight foxing.

(Code No. 3536)

Bingley, William. Rev.

Travels in South Europe,

from Modern writers, with Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of The Geography and Present State of that Division of the Globe.

London. Harvey & Darton. 8vo, [7 x 4 1/2 ins]. 1821. Pp 1- 360 Text + Engraved frontis view + Engraved title + Advert + (8) index + 12 Copper engraved views on 4 full pages. Tours through:- France, including Paris and environs, Paris to Orleans, Orleans to Aix, Switzerland, Italy, Trent to Venice, Vinice to Rome, Rome and environs, Naples, Greece, Athens and environs, Constantinople, Madrid, Valencia and Portugal. Original full calf gilt, rubbed. £110.00

(Code No. 3515)GREENER, W. W.The Gun and Its Development; with Notes on Shooting.London. Cassell and Company, Limited: 1885, 3rd edn. Pp. 768 + (8 + 8, adverts), slight marks & wear,(no loss). Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, some wear.

(Code No. 3512.Glocester.Cadell and Davies. 4to [9 x 12 1/2 ins.] 1806. Pp. vii, Title, dedication & preface + pp. 1-574 text + 5 copper engraved full page plates + Copper engraved text plates + folding table, slight foxing. Original half calf, rubbed & split to hinges.

(Code No. 3478)

Diderot, Denis. 

( 13 Antique prints of various trades, artificial flower maker, hat maker, cork cutter, last maker etc. )

"L'Encyclopedie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonne Des Sciences, arts et metiers" (DIDEROT'S PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADES AND INDUSTRY)

Paris & Neufchatel. Page size approx 10 x 16 ins. ca1750. Original copper engraved plates, by Bernard and others, including 2 double page plates, very good condition. Diderot and others travelled to the many workshops and factories throughout 18th century France, this enabled them to draw detailed illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of Trades and Industry.  Guaranteed to be over 220 years old.  £80.00

(Code No. 3476)

Diderot, Denis.

( 7 Antique prints of Metal Forging )

"L'Encyclopedie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonne Des Sciences, arts et metiers" (DIDEROT'S PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADES AND INDUSTRY)

Paris & Neufchatel. Page size approx 10 x 16 ins. ca1750. Original copper engraved plates by Bernard and others, very good condition. Diderot and others travelled to the many workshops and factories throughout 18th century France, this enabled them to draw detailed illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of Trades and Industry. Guaranteed to be over 220 years old. £60.00

(Code No. DP3213)

Buck. Samuel and Nathaniel.

10 VIEWS OF LANCASHIRE + Large Double Page Panorama of the Town of Lancaster. (As issued).

London. Dates 1727, 1st edition. Print page size 18 x 11 ins. Image size 14 x 7 1/2 ins. Pp, Title page. The brothers, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck drew and engraved a series of etched panoramas and views of British towns, castles and abbeys etc. Each engraving describes below the image, the history of the castles, from Norman times to the early 18th century, including the numerous changes of ownership. Most prints show a dedication and coat of arms. Each print numbered from 1 to 10 in the left hand blank margin, signifying that they are the 1st edition, not the later 18th Century or early 19th Century reprints. Very good impression and condition. No Covers. Rare Copy. £750.00

(Code No. 3435).London. The Proprietors of the I.L.N. Folio, [16 x 11 1/2 ins]. Pp (43), a few marks to blank margins. 16 Full page coloured illustrations, 4 by Kay Nielsen (single sided), 1 by Kenneth Grahame, 1 for Pears Advert and 1 for Boots advert. Many black and white illustrations throughout. Original decorative coloured soft covers, slight nicks to blank margins. The paintings by Kay Nielsen were drawn especially for "The Illustrated London News."

(Code No. 3385)RICHARDS. W.HER MAJESTY'S ARMY A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments now Comprising The Queen's Forces, from their First Establishment to the Present Time.London. J S Virtue & Co. 4to, [ 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins.] circa 1890. 2 Volumes. Pp v-vii, 352, (4 adverts). viii, 352, (4 adverts.) + One full page coloured frontis of 2 + One coloured title of 2 + 31 Tissue guarded full page chromolithographic (colour printed) plates by G.D.Giles, including 4 duplicates, slight marks to blank margins. Original decorated cloth gilt, marked & faded, (no loss). All edges gilt.

(Code No. 3414)Chester, T. Pullan. 1851. Pp 16 + Chester Town Plan, size,475 x 600mm.Good margins. Folding to size 180 x 125 mm. Showing city walls and race-course; antiquities, and interesting sights, etc. Original paper covers slight fraying to edges.