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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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Lots per page:

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

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