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Auction date Friday 17 June 2022 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Friday 17th June at 10.30am

Including property from the library of a remarkable collector of English literature, who sought out important association copies and first editions of the works of Hardy, Lawrence, Austen, Fleming, Tolkien, Milne, Trollope et al (Lots 1-49).

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Total lots: 133

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
49 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: THE CLAVERINGS
London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1867

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 16 wood engravings. 2pp. publisher’s catalogue at end of each volume. 8vo., original bright green cloth blocked in blind and gilt with…
£4,000 - £6,000 - View
50 AUSTEN-LEIGH, R.A.: BYGONE KING'S
published by Spottiswoode & Co, Eton College, 1907, half cloth binding with blue papered boards; sold together with Hussey, Christopher: King's College Chapel
£60 - £80 - View
51 AUSTEN, JANE: EMMA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAMMOND
published by George Allen, London, 1898, gilt tooled green cloth binding
£300 - £350 £420 View
52 WILLIAM BARNES (1801-1886): A SIGNED LETTER
to Miss Bayley, regarding their previous conversation concerning wild plants and mentioning an enclosure of Mugwort leaves, signed W Barnes and dated 1876; sold together with the mentioned Mugwort…
£400 - £600 £320 View
53 BURTON, RICHARD F.: ULTIMA THULE; OR A SUMMER IN ICELAND
first edition, volumes I & II, published by William P. Nimmo, 1875, three quarter blue leather binding
£70 - £90 £200 View
54 BUTTS, MARY: ASHE OF RINGS
published by Contact Editions, Paris, green paper bound with unopened pages
£50 - £70 £280 View
55 CAMDEN, WILLIAM: BRITANNIA, OR A CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, TOGETHER WITH ADJACENT ISLANDS
second edition, two volumes, with eleven plates and fifty-one maps, printed by Mary Matthews for Awnsham Churchill, London, 1722, in full brown calf leather binding
£1,250 - £1,500 £1,200 View
56 A GROUP OF THREE PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON)
of the Drury sisters, Emmie, Ella and Minnie, taken 1869-1870.

Provenance: Emily (Emmie) Wyper, née Drury and thence by descent to the Preston Family
£1,500 - £2,500 £2,200 View
57 CHURCHILL, WINSTON S: THE WAR SPEECHES
comprising Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory and Secret Session Speeches, all edited by Charles Eade, first editions…
£1,100 - £1,500 - View
58 CHURCHILL, WINSTON S: POST-WAR SPEECHES
comprising The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite, In The Balance, Stemming the Tide and The Unwritten Alliance, all edited by Randolph S. Churchill, first editions 1948-1961 published by Cassell, in…
£800 - £1,200 - View
59 CROWLEY, ALEISTER: MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
first edition, published by Castle Books, Secaucus, 1991, maroon cloth bound with dustwrapper; sold together with Waite, Arthur Edward: The Mysteries of Magic, revised edition, published by Kegan…
£60 - £80 £120 View
60 DICKENS, CHARLES: TWO VOLUMES - DAVID COPPERFIELD AND BLEAK HOUSE
first edition, both illustrated by H.K. Browne (Phiz) and published by Chapman & Hall, 1850 and 1853 respectively, both in full green calf binding
£200 - £300 - View
61 DRYDEN, John. The Satires of Juvenal and Satires of Persius, 1693
The SATIRES of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into ENGLISH VERSE, By Mr DRYDEN .... Together with the SATIRES of Aulus Persius Flaccus ...
Printed for Jacob Ronson. Dedicated to Charles, Earl…
£200 - £300 £200 View
62 ESCOFFIER, AUGUSTE.: A GUIDE TO MODERN COOKERY
revised edition, pulished by William Heinemann, London, 1909, later green three quarter binding
£60 - £80 £250 View
63 FLEMING, IAN: TWO VOLUMES
comprising From Russia, Wth Love, first edition 1957 and You Only Live Twice, third impression 1965 both published by Jonathan Cape; sold together with Gardner, John: For Special Services, first…
£200 - £400 £220 View
64 FRANCIS, JULIAN: TOM CHADWICK AND THE GROSVENOR SCHOOL OF MODERN ART
published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2012, half cloth binding with pictorial boards and slip case, sold together with two other Fleece publications of wood engravings -The Great Storm of…
£300 - £400 £460 View
65 GARWOOD, TIRZAH: LONG LIVE GREAT BARDFIELD
published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2012, half red cloth binding with pictorial boards and slip case
£150 - £200 £150 View
66 HALL, CAPTAIN BASIL: ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
together with a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, published by John Murray, London, 1818, three quarter leather binding
£100 - £150 - View
67 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 £360 View
68 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 £460 View
69 HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT: MAN IN ART
published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1892, in vellum folio size binding
£60 - £80 - View
70 THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928): A SIGNED LETTER ADDRESSED TO 'MY DEAR MOULE'
thought to be Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904) relating to the artist's stay at Max Gate, dated May 20th 1903, 'and signed 'Yours T. Hardy', double sided on paper 18cm x 22.5cm

Henry Joseph Moule was…
£800 - £1,200 £2,600 View
71 THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: 26 ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF ATHELHAMPTON/ADMISTON CHURCH BY HICKS ARCHITECTS, DORCHESTER
the majority thought to have been produced by Thomas Hardy during his time with the firm, various sizes, several dated 1861, later frames
Note: Hardy worked for Hicks between 1856 and 1862 and…
£4,000 - £5,000 £4,000 View
72 HASELDEN, THOMAS: THE SEAMAN'S DAILY ASSISTANT
printed by the Executors of David Hay, Dublin, 1774, full brown calf binding
£600 - £800 - View
73 HOUSMAN, LAURENCE: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, red three quarter leather binding; sold together with Browning, Robert; Pippa Passes; & Men & Women, illus. Eleanor…
£150 - £200 £160 View
74 HUTCHINS, REV.: THE HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
second edition, four volumes, with a copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Ghedi for the County, corrected, augmented and improved by R. Gough, extra illustrated beyond the original 196 plates…
£1,500 - £2,000 - View
75 HUTCHINS, JOHN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
volumes I and II, printed by Bowyer and Nichols 1774, rebound in gilt tooled full red calf
£600 - £800 - View
76 HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
'The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved By William Shipp And James Whitworth Hodson', Volumes I-IV, published 1861-1870, Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons (4)
£200 - £400 £100 View
77 IBSEN, HENRIK AND RACKHAM, ARTHUR 'Peer Gynt'
limited edition of 460 copies signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 1, publ. George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., London, 1936, publishers full vellum, front board and spine stamped in gilt,…
£400 - £800 £1,200 View
78 KITCHINER, WILLIAM: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE
new edition, printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co, London, 1824, blue card binding
£60 - £80 £40 View
79 LAWRENCE, T.E: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1935, brown cloth binding with dustwrapper and sold together with a Lawrence of Arabia Memorial leaflet
£100 - £150 £240 View
80 LEECH, JOHN: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER
series I-IV, published by Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, two volumes with three quarter leather binding; sold together with a cloth bound copy of the First Series published by Bradbury, Agnew &amp…
£150 - £200 - View
81 LELAND, JOHN., THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND THE ANTIQUARY.,
'In Nine Volumes', 'The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition alfo of a General Index.', Volumes I-IX, published 1745, Oxford, Printed at the Theatre; with…
£200 - £400 £420 View
82 THE CICELY LUSHINGTON ARCHIVE - AN EXTRAORDINARY STUDY OF THE BIRDS OF CEYLON BY THE ORNITHOLOGIST CICELY LUSHINGTON (1903-1987)
comprising: a working draft of 'Bird Life in Ceylon', three folios containing 74 large format watercolours, approximately 40 sketches and a small quantity of a single sheet article by Lushington…
£2,000 - £3,000 £5,400 View
83 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
84 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
85 MASSON, FREDERIC: NAPOLEON ET SON FILS
No. 728/800 of the 'Blanchet Freres & Kleber' edition, complete with 52 plates, water-marks to some page leading edges, published by Goupil & Co, Paris, 1904, in gilt tooled full brown calf…
£400 - £600 - View
86 MAYO, CHARLES HERBERT: A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MAYO & ELTON FAMILIES
second edition, privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1908, olive green cloth binding, inscribed by the author to AW Gould and dated May 15 1909
£400 - £600 - View
87 MILNE, A.A. 'Winnie the Pooh'
1926 first edition, publ. Methuen & Co Ltd, rebound by Winstanley of Salisbury 1997; together with a copy of 'The House at Pooh Corner' 1928 second edition, Methuen & Co Ltd (2)
£200 - £400 £500 View
88 MOORE, THOMAS: NATURE PRINTED BRITISH FERNS
octavo edition, volumes I & II, published by Bradbury Evans & Co, red three quarter leather binding, previously owned by Mr MH Woodford of the 'Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN'…
£150 - £200 £390 View
89 MOSENTHAL & HARTING:OSTRICHES AND OSTRICH FARMING
published by Trubner and Co,London 1876, red cloth binding, sold together with Cheesman: In Unknown Arabia and Thomas: Alarms and Excursions in Arabia
£100 - £150 £100 View
90 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 £400 View
91 AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
dating from 1887 to 1881, chiefly concerning updates on Rossetti's works of the time, including a drawing of Mrs Stillman (Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927)), but also highlighting Rossetti's…
£2,000 - £4,000 £3,000 View
92 A HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND SONNET FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
written on the 20th May 1880 for the purpose of Shields' sketch of William Blake's work room and death room, 3 Fountain Court, Strand. Together with a reprint of an article reprinted from the …
£1,000 - £2,000 £7,400 View
93 A HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH SKETCHES FROM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
the final page of the letter with four ink sketches of kneeling women, one washing her long hair

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
£400 - £800 £1,700 View
94 PICART, Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World
7 volumes, bound as 6 volumes, 1733-39. Dedicated to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, with illustrations by Claude du Bosc.
£800 - £1,200 £1,000 View
95 POWYS: T.F.: MR TASKER'S GODS
first edition, published by Chatto & Windus 1925; sold together with Powys, J.C.: Morwyn, first edition, published by Cassell, 1937, both in cloth bindings with dustwrappers
£60 - £80 £60 View
96 A HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS TO TOM TAYLOR
congratulating Taylor on the birth of his "bouncing baby boy"

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Kerrison Preston Esq. (1884-1974) practised as a solicitor in Bournemouth, Hampshire …
£200 - £400 - View

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