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Auction date Thursday 7 October 2021

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7th October at 10:30am

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
1	AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE PLATE circa 1745, possibly Liverpool, decorated with an oriental landscape, with a figure walking over a bridge to a house, 35cm diameter	£200 - £400	£200	View
2	AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE CHARGER 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…	£150 - £250	-	View
3	A PAIR OF BRISTOL DELFTWARE PLATES circa 1760, decorated with an Oriental fishing scene, with a bianco-sopra-bianco border with pine cones, 22.8cm diameter	£100 - £200	£200	View
4	A DUTCH DELFTWARE CHARGER 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)	£200 - £400	£320	View
5	A DUTCH DELFTWARE LIDDED VASE 18th century, of octagonal baluster shape, the polychrome ground decorated with peacocks and flowers, 42cm high Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre	£200 - £400	£500	View
6	A SET OF FOUR VIENNA PORCELAIN FIGURES 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,…	£800 - £1,200	£800	View
7	A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GLASS TABLE LUSTRES, the cranberry glass with floral enamel decoration, with tapering glass lustres, 32.5cm high (2) Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre	£200 - £400	£650	View
8	A COLLECTION OF SILVER FLATWARE 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)	£300 - £400	£700	View
9	A SET OF FOUR SILVER TABLE SALTS with gadrooned rims and shell splayed feet, (c.6oz) (4)	£100 - £200	£160	View
10	A PAIR OF SILVER TABLE SALTS with gadrooned rims, standing on three splayed feet, (c.3.5oz) (2)	£50 - £100	£80	View
11	GORHAM: A SET OF TWELVE SILVER SHELL DISHES with gilt interiors, 7.5cm x 8.5cm (c.11oz)	£100 - £200	-	View
12	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN (USE OF AUTUN) WITH CALENDAR, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 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…	£15,000 - £25,000	£15,000	View
13	THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A YOUNG LADY, 1794 the first entry dated 30th September, with some pasted-in scraps and poetic verse Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£300 - £500	£650	View
14	LADY HESTER STANHOPE: A HANDWRITTEN LETTER 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 …	£300 - £500	£250	View
15	SVININE, PAVEL PETROVICH 'Sketches of Russia' 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.…	£500 - £1,000	£650	View
16	MILNE, A.A. 'Toad of Toad Hall' 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…	£1,500 - £2,500	-	View
17	NICHOLSON, WILLIAM 'The Square Book of Animals' Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, 12 chromolithographed plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£300 - £500	-	View
18	DULAC, EDMUND 'The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales' 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…	£500 - £1,000	£550	View
19	BRANGWYN, FRANK 'The Book of Job' (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…	£500 - £1,000	£700	View
20	RICKETTS, CHARLES 'The Parables' Vale Press, 1903, vellum covers, with ten woodcut illustrations Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£300 - £500	£460	View
21	LUBBOCK, J.G. ' The Sphere of Rocks and Water' 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…	£100 - £200	-	View
22	LONGUS 'Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe' 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,…	£500 - £1,000	£700	View
23	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE 'The Garden Party' 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,…	£100 - £200	-	View
24	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: GILL, ERIC 'Art & Love' 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…	£300 - £500	-	View
25	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: GILL, ERIC 'Song of Songs' 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…	£500 - £1,000	£420	View
26	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: SWINBURNE, A.C. 'Pasiphae' 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…	£500 - £1,000	£800	View
27	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: LUCAS, F.L. 'The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite' 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…	£300 - £500	£300	View
28	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: HARTNOLL, PHYLLIS 'The Grecian Enchanted' 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…	£300 - £500	£340	View
29	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: 'Salmacis and Hermaphroditus' 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…	£500 - £1,000	£480	View
30	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: MILTON, JOHN 'Paradise Lost' 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,…	£500 - £1,000	£1,700	View
31	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: JONES, GWYN AND JONES, THOMAS 'The Mabinogion' 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…	£300 - £500	-	View
32	THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: A SMALL QUANTITY OF VOLUMES 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;…	£500 - £1,000	£650	View
33	BRADSHAW, GEORGE 'Bradshaw's Railway Companion' 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…	£20 - £40	-	View
34	A COLLECTION OF CHAPBOOKS largely children's literature and religious tracts (18) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£300 - £500	£550	View
35	A QUANTITY OF NOVELS including works by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas and others (57) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£100 - £200	£220	View
36	A SMALL QUANTITY OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS 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	£100 - £200	£420	View
37	A QUANTITY OF LIMITED EDITION AND SIMILAR ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS 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…	£500 - £1,000	£550	View
38	BONE, MUIRHEAD 'The Western Front' 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:…	£100 - £200	-	View
39	A QUANTITY OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION VOLUMES including 'The Operas of Wagner' and Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' (34) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£50 - £100	-	View
40	A QUANTITY OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS to include works by J.M. Barrie, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear and Ernest Shepherd (40) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£200 - £400	£240	View
41	A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM '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…	£150 - £250	£400	View
42	A QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO MEDIEVAL AND LATER ART including reference editions concerning Illuminated Manuscripts, Renaissance Art and other similar topics Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£50 - £100	-	View
43	A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON RENAISSANCE AND LATER ART including works on Leonardo, Botticelli, Blake and Van Gogh Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£50 - £100	-	View
44	A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF REMBRANDT AND DURER (16 volumes and some additional ephemera) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£80 - £150	-	View
45	A SMALL QUANTITY OF 20TH CENTURY ART BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS mostly relating to Eric Gill, Graham Sutherland and Augustus John, among others Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£150 - £250	£120	View
46	TOLKEIN, J.R.R. 'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again' 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…	£15,000 - £25,000	£46,000	View
47	ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527-1598) A MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES "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…	£400 - £800	-	View
48	CHRISTOPHER SAXTON (1540-1610) AND WILLIAM KIP (FL. 1598-1610) 'Denbigh' from Camden's Britannia, 1610 or 1627 edition, hand-coloured engraving, 27cm x 33cm Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54)	£50 - £100	-	View

Total lots: 174

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