Autumn Fine Art

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)

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largely children's literature and religious tracts (18)

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

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

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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)

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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)

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

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

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'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)

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

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including works on Leonardo, Botticelli, Blake and Van Gogh

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(16 volumes and some additional ephemera)

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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)