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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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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
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
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
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
97	SCOTT, GEORGE RYLEY: THE HISTORY OF TORTURE THROUGHOUT THE AGES first edition, published by T. Werner Laurie, London, 1940, later red three quarter leather binding	£70 - £90	£140	View
98	RUSSELL, JAMES: THE LOST WATERCOLOURS published by The Mainstone Press, Norwich, 2016, cloth binding with slip case	£100 - £150	£100	View
99	SAVAGE, JAMES: THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER published by G. Clark, Cornhill, 1833, half brown cloth binding with marbled boards, sold together with Pearce, R: Methodism in Portland, published by Charles R. Kelly, London, 1898, brown cloth…	£80 - £100	-	View
100	STAHL, P: TONY AND PUSS illustrated by Lorenz Frolich, published by Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London, 1870, in gilt and black tooled red cloth	£50 - £70	-	View
101	SPIELMANN, M.H. & LAYARD, G.S.: KATE GREENAWAY edition de-luxe No. 399 of 500, published by A & C Black, London 1905, complete with original Greenway sketch inset to front endpaper and signed twice by John Greenaway, with fine gilt tooled…	£1,000 - £1,500	-	View
102	TOLKIEN, J.R.R.: THE LORD OF THE RINGS India paper edition published by Allen & Unwin, 1969, black pictorial cloth binding with slip case; sold together Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Silmarillion, first edition, published by Allen & Unwin…	£100 - £200	£180	View
103	TRIGGS, H. INIGO: FORMAL GARDENS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND subscriber's copy, published by B.T. Batsford, London, 1902, in folio size three quarter leather binding	£100 - £200	£280	View
104	VIMONT, JOSEPH: PHRENOLOGIE, HUMAINE ET COMPAREE published by Establissement Encyclograhique, Brussels, 1836, brown three quarter leather binding	£200 - £300	-	View
105	WALLIS, JOHN (EDITOR): THE BOOK OF DAYS OF LLEWELYN POWYS with twelves etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, published by The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, half green leather binding	£250 - £300	-	View
106	WELLS, H.G: 'WAR OF THE WORLDS' 1st edition published by William Heinemann, London, 1898, grey cloth binding	£200 - £400	£550	View

Total lots: 96

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