Autumn Fine Art

circa 1745, possibly Liverpool, decorated with an oriental landscape, with a figure walking over a bridge to a house, 35cm diameter

circa 1740, possibly Lambeth, decorated with a central floral medallion, with an outer border of floral sprays, together with two further smaller English delftware plates decorated with oriental landscapes, 34.5cm diameter

circa 1760, decorated with an Oriental fishing scene, with a bianco-sopra-bianco border with pine cones, 22.8cm diameter

circa 1680, decorated in the Chinese transitional ‘Kraak style’, with two women in the interior; and a similar smaller example, 34.5cm diameter and 30.3cm diameter (2)

18th century, of octagonal baluster shape, the polychrome ground decorated with peacocks and flowers, 42cm high

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

19th century, emblematic of the seasons, the cream ground painted in polychrome enamels and highlighted with gilding, on rustic bases, 38cm high (4)

Provenance: The Brymer family at Ilsington House, Puddletown, Dorset and by descent.

the cranberry glass with floral enamel decoration, with tapering glass lustres, 32.5cm high (2)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

by William Eaton, London, 1839, including six large spoons, six dessert spoons, six large forks and six smaller forks together with two associated serving spoons (a lot)

with gadrooned rims and shell splayed feet, (c.6oz) (4)

with gadrooned rims, standing on three splayed feet, (c.3.5oz) (2)

with gilt interiors, 7.5cm x 8.5cm (c.11oz)

Burgandy, circa 1475, 147 11, 14 lines to a page, written in a large clear gothic hand, headings in red, calendar written in blue, red and black. Eight large miniatures in arched compartments, each page with a miniature surrounded by a full illuminated border with naturalistic flowers, fruit and foliage; three similar half-borders; many large and small initials in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds,190mm x 140mm

the first entry dated 30th September, with some pasted-in scraps and poetic verse

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

written from Sayde and dated March 9th 1818, reading "Gentleman, I have this day drawn a bill upon your house for the sum of three hundred pounds sterling, payable to the order of Mr Jarett of Pera (of Constantinople), which same I trust you will honour, I am Gentleman, your humble servant, Hester, Lady Stanhope"; together with a copy of Lady Hester Stanhope's biography by Joan Haslip, Cobden-Sanderson, 1934. First Edition., 1934,

Provenance: C.J.F. Jarchow
Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

1814, first edition, printed for R. Ackermann, London, illustrated with fifteen engravings, full red calf with gilt lettering and five raised bands
to the spine

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

a play from Kenneth Grahame's book 'A Wind in the Willows' 1929, limited edition signed by Mile and Grahame, number 47 of the edition of 200 on handmade paper, Methuen, London, green leather binding with gilt lettering and animals to the spine

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, 12 chromolithographed plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edition de Luxe, number 76 signed by Dulac, first edition, 1910, with 30 magnificent colour lithographs, fully bound in brown Morocco with gilt decoration and lettering, Hodder & Stoughton, London

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) Brangwyn, Sir Frank. The Book of Job. 33 etchings by Brangwyn, each signed in pencil, with pencil annotations, printed in brown and black, original gilt-stamped 1/2 vellum, one of 110 unnumbered copies with the signed etchings. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1948

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Vale Press, 1903, vellum covers, with ten woodcut illustrations

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

signed copy, number 9 from the edition of 80, publ. Bertram Rota, London, designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, hand-bound by George Percival at Leicester, colour printed engraved plates, some double page, morocco backed pictorial cloth, transparent wrapper, slip case

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

translated by J. Amyot, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raveat, hand coloured initials in blue by Graily Hewitt, published by The Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1933, limited to 290 copies on paper, Ptolemy type with marginal notes in red, original vellum-backed boards with gilt vignette on upper cover and gilt lettering to spine, original patterned slip case

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

with coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin, Verone Press, London, number 627 of the edition of 1200, Small quarto decorated pale green cloth. Red leather label to the spine, lettered in gilt, designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed in the Autumn of 1939 at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, with tipped in Publisher's Note

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

publ. Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, 1927, printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press and completed on the 30th June 1927, limited edition 189/260, signed by Gill

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Illustrated with nineteen wood-engravings by Eric Gill, device on title-page and initial letters printed in red, number 541 of 750 numbered copies, printed by Robert Gibbings and completed on the 12th October 1925, original white buckram with gilt lettering on spine

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

1950, number 9 from the edition of 500, numbers 1-100 of which have the extra engraving, illustrations by John Buckland-Wright, printed in Bembo type by Christopher Sandford, oxblood cover with bull device in gilt, gilt lettering to spine, slip case; together with a letter to Kerrison Preston from Christopher Sandford, thanking him for his support (2)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

limited edition of 750 copies with illustrations by Mark Severin, printed in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, terracotta cloth boards with black vellum spine, gilt decoration of Aphrodite on front board and gilt lettering to spine

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

printed with eight collotype illustrations after aquatint copper engravings by John Buckland Wright, limited edition number 87 of 360 copies, printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Caslon's Old Face type, original pink and grey cloth with cockfight design by Buckland Wright blocked in gold on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont, edited by Gwyn Jones, with 10 engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright, Golden Cockerel Press, 1951, 10 wood engravings printed in colour, including title vignette (8 full-page), 2 colour wood engraved head-pieces, untrimmed, original quarter crushed blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, over green cloth, with matching slipcase, small folio, limited edition 36 of 80 especially-bound copies, signed by the editor and artist

the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, 1937,
wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original black half pigskin over decorative paper boards by Zaehnsdorf, lacking slipcase, number 147/200 copies

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, 1948, one of 550 copies, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby, original publisher's half morocco over cream buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt on the spine and with a Celtic design in gilt on the upper cover

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Lucas, F.L., 'Greek Anthology', 1937, number 57 of 206 copies, illustrations by Lettice Sandford; Bannet, Ivor, 'The Amazons', 1948, number 270 of 500 copies, illustrations by Clifford Webb; Komensky, John Amos, 'The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart', translated by Count Lutzow, 1950, number 245 of 370 copies, illustrations by Dorothea Braby; Longus 'Daphnis & Chloe - A Most Sweet, Pleasant Pastorall Romance For Young Ladies' translated by George Thornley, 1923, number 383 of 450 copies

publ. 1843, Bradshaw's Railway Information Office, 59 Fleet Street, London, W.J. Adams agent; together with 'Bradshaw's Continental Railway, Steam Transit and General Guide' in embroidered cloth jacket; and three of Badeker's guides 'Central Italy', 'Northern Italy' and 'Paris et ses Environs' (5)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

largely children's literature and religious tracts (18)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including works by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas and others (57)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including 'The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte' in three volumes, Homer's 'Iliad' in two volumes and other similar editions (15)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' Milton's Hymn with illustrations by William Blake; 'Art and the Spiritual Life' by J.G. Lubbock, Twelve-by-Eight press, 1967; 'The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Library', volume II, edited by E.V. Lucas, 1924, number 162 of 1500 copies; and a quantity of similar editions (31 volumes and a folio case of correspondence)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

volumes I and II, published by authority of The War Office, 1917; and a quantity of other volumes concerning the Great War, travel, Islamic and Oriental art and similar subjects (27)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including 'The Operas of Wagner' and Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' (34)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

to include works by J.M. Barrie, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear and Ernest Shepherd (40)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book', The Romance of King Arthur', English Fairy Tales', 'The Springtide of Life', 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 'Undine' and Rackham's biography by Derek Hudson; together with three further volumes illustrated by Edmund Dulac: 'Stories from the Arabian Nights', 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' and 'Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross' (10)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including reference editions concerning Illuminated Manuscripts, Renaissance Art and other similar topics

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

including works on Leonardo, Botticelli, Blake and Van Gogh

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

(16 volumes and some additional ephemera)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

mostly relating to Eric Gill, Graham Sutherland and Augustus John, among others

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

1st ed., 1st impression, pub. Allen & Unwin, 1937, ten uncoloured illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien, advertisement at rear, map endpapers printed in red and black, original green cloth, covers and spine with wraparound dark blue illustration of mountains, moon and sun at top, upper cover with Smaug illustration looking left, original first impression dust-jacket with “Dodgeson” (better known as Lewis Caroll) manual correction on lower flap

"Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio" from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' 1571 or 1573 edition, hand-coloured engraving, 25.5cm x 49.5cm

Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54)

from Camden's Britannia, 1610 or 1627 edition, hand-coloured engraving, 27cm x 33cm

Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54)