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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
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
107	WHITE, E.B.: CHARLOTTE'S WEB, 1st edition, published by Harper & Bros, New York, 1952, with I-B mark and price-clipped dustwrapper	£200 - £300	£120	View
108	YORKE, MALCOLM: THE INWARD LAUGH published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2005, half cloth binding with pictorial boards	£150 - £200	-	View
109	YORKE, MALCOLM: TWO COPIES OF RICHARD BAWDEN, HIS LIFE & WORK published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2016, alternate red and blue half cloth bindings with matching slip cases	£200 - £250	£200	View
110	ZAMYATIN, YEVGENY: WE first UK edition, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1970, grey cloth bound with dustwrapper	£100 - £150	£125	View
111	'DOCTOR SYNTAX': THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, A HUDIBRASTIC PEOM IN FIFTEEN CANTOS illustrated by George Cruikshank, first edition, complete with thirty hand-coloured plates, published by T. Tegg &c, London 1815, later gilt tooled red morocco leather binding with bookplate…	£400 - £600	-	View
112	HIGH HOUSE PRESS, SHAFTESBURY: FOUR VOLUMES comprising Waller, Edmund: Songs and Verses; Matthewman, S: Hylas; How a Merchant did his Wife Betray; and Museaus: Hero & Leander (one of only 15 printed), all in half cloth bindings, the latter…	£100 - £150	£200	View
113	FOLIO SOCIETY: TWO VOLUMES comprising Alighieri Dante: Inferno illus. Wiliam Blake; and Armitage (transl): Sir Gawain illus. Diana Sudyka, both published 2008, cloth bindings with slip cases	£100 - £150	-	View
114	24 VOLUMES FROM 'THE LONSDALE LIBRARY' various titles including 'Big Game Shooting in Africa' and 'Polo' all edited by Lonsdale and Parker, published by Seeley Service, various dates, in brown cloth bindings	£150 - £200	£90	View
115	GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT 1935 - AN ARCHIVE collated by Edward Russell (1901-1982), Managing Editor of the Morning Post 1935-1937, comprising: two signed letters from Winston Churchill (1874-1965) to Russell respectively dated July 1934 and…	£2,000 - £3,000	£1,800	View
116	BADESLADE, THOMAS (fl. 1720-1750) AND TOMS, W.H, COLOURED ENGRAVING, A MAP OF DORSET SHIRE 15.5cm square, in later burr veneer frame and glazed; together with five other 19th Century and later maps, all framed	£100 - £150	£50	View
117	AFTER BLAEU, CORNELIUS (1610-1644), REPRINT, MAP OF WESTPHALIA 40cm x 50cm, in Hogarth frame and glazed, gifted to the vendor's family as part of the 1973 twinning of Dorchester with Lubbecke in Westphalia	£40 - £60	-	View
118	BLAEU, JOHANNES (1596-1673), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 41cm x 50cm, in later Hogarth frame and glazed	£120 - £150	£80	View
119	BLAEU, JOAN (1596-1673), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF BRITAIN with vignettes of Anglo-Saxon history to sides, 42cm x 52cm, in gilt frame and glazed	£1,800 - £2,400	£1,400	View
120	BOWEN, EMMANUEL (1694-1767) AND OWEN, JOHN, TWO COLOURED 'ROAD MAP' ENGRAVINGS comprising Exeter to Truro and Bristol to Westchester, each 19cm x 12cm in double sided Hogarth frames and glazed	£30 - £50	-	View

Total lots: 133

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