Grosvenor Prints

Reports by the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the navigation of the River Thames: together with the minutes of evidence (with appendices.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
London: printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printed to the Queen's most excellent majesty, for her majesty's office. 1879
Quarto in wrappers, 330 x 210mm. 13 x 8¼". Consisting of title page, contents, four coloured maps and 'minute by the president of the board of trade'. Foxing and edges tatty with tears
Four coloured maps showing the Thames from London Bridge to Southend and Sheerness, bound together. Originally accompanied a report on the navigation of the river.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11303] £240.00 view all images for this item

The First Annual Dinner of the Second-Hand Booksellers' Association held at The Criterion, Thursday, 23rd January, 1908. Reprinted from "The Clique," The Recognised Organ of the Second-hand Book Trade. The Clique was established in 1809 to facilitate intercourse and business between Booksellers, and is not supplied to the General Public. Subscription 6/6 per annum Post Free...Gentlemen,-This time I say gentlemen advisedly, for although I have heard of Lady booksellers, no Suffragette has yet claimed the right of admission to our Honourable Association...The Song of the Association. (As sung at the Dinner)...
[n.d. c.1908.]
Letterpress, four pages, 4to: 254 x 158mm (10 x 6¼").
Notes on the first annual dinner of the Second-hand Booksellers' Association, the precursor to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association; the pamphlet includes the words to the 'Song of the Association'.
[Ref: 30453] £75.00

Books and Pictures from the Estate of the Late Mr. George Allen. For Sale. May be seen at 156, Charing Cross Road London.
No.11. February 1909.
8vo, catalogue, 16 pages, 10 plates (including 8 illustrations showing 43 pieces of Martinware, very scarce. 230 x 157mm (9 x 6¼"). Some toning.
A scarce sale catalogue of items from the estate of George Allen (1832-1907), best known as the publisher of John Ruskin (who is represented in the catalogue by a series of etchings, and several watercolours). He was an avid collector of Martin-Ware, of which 100 are offered.
[Ref: 30363] £550.00

The Clique. No. 1,122. Private. For the Trade Only. Issued every Saturday. P.M. Barnard, 10 Dudley Road,. Tunbridge Wells. Owing to my system of issuing Classified Catalogues, I am a large buyer in various subjects I am ask no discount from the Booksellers who put me on their earliest list for catalogues. I examine most carefully MS. copy of catalogues sent to me, and order as much as possible thus saving seller the expense of printing...Reports desired by Maggs., 109 Strand, London, W.C., Scarce Books, Prints, Autographs, including First Edition of Stevenson, Hardy, Meredith and Kipling. Also rare Australian books and pamphlets. All reports receive immediate and careful attention. See inside for weekly "Desiderata".
30 Rivercourt Road, London W. Registered Telegraphic Address-"Clicourt, London." Telephone-485 Chiswick. May 11. 1912.
Letterpress pamphlet, 48 pages. 247 x 159mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Paper toning and soiling.
A magazine with book sellers and dealers of Great Britain, including Maggs Bros, London, listing their wants and desires.
[Ref: 30341] £25.00

[Religious pamphlets.] The Bible. Count o’er five Books of Moses [...] [&] A form of prayer to be used in all Churches and chapels throughout those parts of the United Kingdom called England and Ireland [...]
Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate. [n.d. c.1835.] [&] Doncaster: Sold by Brooke & Co. High-Street; and C. White, Baxter-Gate. [n.d. c.1832.]
Two letterpress pamphlets, 8vo, 4pp., 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½") & 222 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). 'Prayer creased and soiled.
Two pamphlets: one celebrating the word of God and thanking him for 'His Blessed Book', the other an Anglican Communion prayer.
[Ref: 29020] £70.00 view all images for this item

The Court of Oberon, or The Three Wishes. A Drama in Three Acts.
[By Elizabeth Yorke, Countess of Hardwicke.]
London: Printed At The Shakspeare Press By W. Nicol. MDCCCXXXI. [1831.]
Book, 4to (280 x 220mm, 11 x 8¾"), first edition. Contemporary half morocco gilt over brown cloth boards, gilt lettered spine. With a coloured lithographic frontispiece illustrating Act I on india paper by Templeton after the author's design. Also dedication to Princess Victoria, Preface and cast list, pp.55, complete. Binding scuffed and rubbed, spine chipped at top. First four leaves slightly foxed, remainder ok.
Lady Elizabeth Scot Yorke (nee Lindsay) (1763 - 1858) married Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke in 1782 to become Countess of Hardwicke. This play was written before 1800 by the Countess for her children. Printed in aid of the "distressed Irish".
British Library: 003999563.
[Ref: 11638] £360.00 view all images for this item

Illustrations to Browning's Poems. Part II.
Published for the Browning Society by N. Trubner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C., 1883. Price Ten Shillings.
Two plates facing each other (complete as per list to cover), separated by an original tissue guard, bound into contemporary printed green boards. Small folio, 345 x 255mm, 13½ x 10". Boards scuffed, rubbed and chipped in places. Foxing to plates, mostly marginal.
The first plate, "reproduced by Dawson's Fotoengraving process", is 'Andrea del Sarto pleading with his Wife', the inspiration for Robert Browning's (1812-1889) 'Andrea del Sarto'. The second plate is a photomechanical portrait of the poet. Browning published poems and plays from 1832, and married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. He published The Ring and the Book, 1868-9, Balaustion's Adventure, 1871, and Dramatic Idylls, 1879-80; Browning was one of the great poets of the nineteenth-century, pre-eminent for his intellectuality, and for his use of dramatic psychological monologues. Advetising and other text to both upper and lower covers.
See BL Wf1/2740 & 2741.
[Ref: 26293] £130.00 view all images for this item

Propagation of the Gospel, (North America). Copy of A Memorandum transmitted to Viscount Goderich, relative to the State of the English Church in the North American Colonies.
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 22 May 1827.
Letterpress, 6pp. glued, Sheet 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8").
A pamphlet presented to the House of Commons, calling for more missionaries to be sent to propagate the Church of England in the wilds of Canada.
[Ref: 30279] £95.00

The Whole Proceedings On the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, And Gaol Delivery for the City of London, and also The Gaol Delivery For the County of Middlesex, held at Justic Hall, in the Old Bailey; on Wednesday, 23rd of October, 1822, and following Days; Being the Eighth Session in the Mayoralty of the Right Hon. Christopher Magnay, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Taken in Short-Hand by H. Buckler, (By Authority of the Corporation of the City of London.)
London: Printed for H. Buckler, By J. Book, 31, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors' Commons; and Published By T. Keys, City Library, Coleman Street. 1822.
4to book, pp.66. Tatty edges and paper toning. Some water staining.
An account of the Old Bailey Sessions from 23rd October 1822 over several days when the accused are put on trial and punished. 117 cases are heard where case number 1489 a Mary Morris is transported for theft. Christopher Magnay (1746-1826) was the Lord Mayor of London from 1821 - 1822; this was his last session to preside over the court proceedings at the Old Bailey. George IV was on the throne at the time. Many of the accused were transported executed fined and found not guilty! A major source for the subject of transportation.
[Ref: 23400] £850.00

[Verses from a volume of love poetry]
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1830s.]
Letterpress pamphlet/chapbook, 8vo (210 x 135mm, 8¼ x 5¼"), [14]pp., loosely stitched, lacking wrappers, rear leaf almost detached. Slightly stained and soiled, as normal.
Verses of popular valentines, or love poems, each captioned and addressed to or from 'a Gentleman', 'a Lady', or others - i.e. 'To a Waterman', 'To a Fisherman', or 'To a Quaker'. This may be extracted from 'Richardson's new London fashionable gentleman's Valentine writer or, The lover's own book', printed in Derby by Thomas Richardson & Son.
See BL 015119537.
[Ref: 20982] £130.00

The London Cigarette Card Co., Ltd. Cambridge House, 30, Wellesley Road, Chiswick, London, W.4. Telephone: CHIswick 2346. Abridged Catalogue of Cigarette Cards, Albums and Accessories 1938. ...Forword. In presenting the ninth edition of our free Catalogue we beg to solicit the continued valued patronage of our customers and to assure them that every possible attention will be given to their requirements.
M. Brown, Printer, 15 Bramley Road, North Kensington, W.10.
Printed letterpress, booklet of 32 pages. 190 x 102mm. 7½ x 4".
The London Cigarette Card Co. Ltd was established in 1927. This catalogue contains a complete listing of cards, albums and accessories. The first few pages detail the conditions of sale, shipment arrangements, special concessions, exchanges and cash allowances. On verso, mention of exhibtions to be held Dorland Hall, Regent Street.
[Ref: 18031] £80.00

1885. Proposed Restoration of the Ancient Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. West Smithfield, E.C. Founded by Rahere, 1103-1123. General Restoration Committee... Present Condition of the Church and Prospects of Restoration…Report for Proposed Restoration…Subscriptions…Plan of St. Bartholomew the Great Smithfield Shewing secular encroachments. [&] List of Contributions and Views Shewing Present Condition of the Ancient Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. West Smithfield E.C. 1885.
[For the photograph views.] Ink-photo. Sprague & Co. London.
April 27th, 1885.
Two letterpress 4to pamphlets, each of 2 pages double-sided; the latter containing ink photo images. 255 x 210mm. 10 x 8¼".
The Priory Church was founded in 1123 as part of a monastery of Augustinian Canons, and later dissolved in 1539 and the nave demolished. Under Queen Mary, there was a brief period during which Dominican friars resided over the church, until it reverted to being a Parish Church under Queen Elizabeth I. Various parts of the building were damaged or destroyed through the centuries until restoration began in the 19th century, first in the 1860s and then, under Sir Aston Webb. Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) was an English architect; this restoration acting as his first major work. He is responsible for the Queen Victoria Memorial, the principal façade of Buckingham Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum's main building; amongst many others nationwide.
[Ref: 15593] £70.00 view all images for this item

The Quaker; A Comic Opera, by Charles Dibdin. Adapted for Theatrical Representation: As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-Book. By Permission of the Managers. The Lines distiguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation.
London: Printed for John Cawthorn, 5, Catherine Street, Strand, Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. 1805. Printed by T. Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand.
Programme. 8vo. 153 x 100mm. 6 x 4". Nicks and tears, no binding.
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814), British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter, born in Southampton, the son of a parish clerk. The Quaker was written in 1775.
[Ref: 14479] £75.00

[Almanac] Parker's Ephemeris For the Year of Our Lord 1774. The Eighty-Fifth Impression.
London, Printed by J. Emonson, for the Company of Stationers. [Price Nine-Pence Stitched.]
Small woodcut and letterpress booklet, printed in red and black; 12mo (160 x 100mm, 6¼ x 4"), lacking original binding and with later detached brown paper wrapper. A little soiled and stained; contents generally good.
A miscellany of general and historical information, including astronomical, astrological, and meteorological charts/tables, calendars, and a few decorative woodcut vignettes. Title page with woodcut portrait of George Parker (1651-1743), almanac maker. In 1690 Parker commenced the publication of an almanac with the title 'Mercurius Anglicanus; or the English Mercury,' which was continued under his name until 1781. In 1707 the name of the publication was changed to 'Parker's Ephemeris.' With pen ownership inscription 'Thomas Cadbird' to title page.
See BL General Reference Collection P.P.2465.
[Ref: 26708] £110.00

A Catalogue of useful and entertaining Books, printed for, and sold by J. Cooke, Pater-noster Row, London, and most other Booksellers and News-carriers in England. - I. - Published by the King's Authority. The Christian's Preparation…-II.- Every Patient his Own Doctor; Or, the Sick Man's Triumph over Death and the Grave…-III-The Complete Sportsman; Or, Counrty Gentelman's Recreation…-IV.- A Companion for the Fire-Side; Or, Winter Evening's Amusement…….-XX.- The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha…-XXI.- The Moder Book-Keeper; Or, Book-Keeping Made Perfectly Easy.
[London. Cooke, 1770.]
Letterpress. Four page 8vo pamphlet. 210 x 134mm. 8¼ x 5¼".
Booksellers' Advert.
[Ref: 15516] £60.00

Views of Toronto. Descriptive Letterpress.
[Anon., Canadian, n.d., 1858?]
Small letterpress pamphlet, 12mo (160 x 100mm, 6¼ x 4"), 16pp. incl. printed wrapper, very scarce item. A little foxed, generally fine.
Supplement to a series of souvenir engravings (lacking) of views and principal buildings in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The text is taken from 'Nelson's Hand-Book to the City of Toronto'.
Se Library and Archives Canada: 895665697.
[Ref: 26707] £320.00

Prospectus and Specimens of the Wood Engravings... [for] The Oriental Album; or Historical, Pictorial and Ethnographical Sketches Illustrating the Human Families in the Valley of the Nile, Their Costumes, Usages, Habits, Modes of Life, &c.&c.&c.
By E. Prisse, Esq.
James Madden, Publisher, 8, Leadenhall Street, London... M.DCCC.XLVII [1847].
Publisher's advertisement prospectus illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes, very scarce prospectus. 4 pages, folio (555 x 380mm, 21¾ x 15"). Includes List of Plates; with publisher's printed red labels glued to first and last page. Some soiling, generally good.
Achille Prisse d'Avennes's 'Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot...'. Prisse travelled through Egypt in the guise of an Arab. He excavated at Thebes from 1839 to 1843 with the botanist George Lloyd (1815-1843), to whom the work is dedicated and whose portrait forms the frontispiece. It was Lloyd who encouraged Prisse to begin the series of drawings which forms this work, but Lloyd accidentally shot himself so did not live to see its publication. The text is by James Augustus St. John who travelled extensively in Egypt and Nubia in 1832-33.
[Ref: 27490] £260.00 view all images for this item

A Report of the State of the Sheffield General Infirmary, (Open to the Sick and Lame Poor of any Nation) From Missummer 1801, to Midsummer, 1802.
By the Committee of Accounts, Appointed by the Statutes of the Charity to Prepare the Same.
T.Pierson, Printer, Sheffield. [n.d., watermarked 1802.]
Folio letterpress broadsheet, 4pp., with engraving on front. Sheet (opened) 475 x 605mm, 18¾ x 23¾". Splits in folds, one tear.
With lists of the receipts and payments, patients admitted and discharged, legacies and subscribers. Sheffield General Infirmary was founded in 1792, becoming the Royal Infirmary in 1897, closing in 1980. The original building, as shown in the engraving, is now Heritage House, a Grade II* listed building.
[Ref: 9048] £650.00

Remarks On The Proportionate Quantities Of Rain At Different Seasons In Oxford.
By Stephen Peter Rigaud, M.A. Savilan Professor Of Astronomy.
Oxford, Printed By S. Collingwood, Printer To The University, For The Ashmolean Society. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
Printed pamphlet, 8vo, 210 x 130mm, 8¼ x 5". Complete as issued, lacking wrapper. Light age toning as normal, titlepage with stains.
The author is Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774 - 1839), mathematical historian and astronomer.
British Library system number: 00273614.
[Ref: 9519] £30.00

Dick Whittington And His Wonderful Cat; And The Butterflies' Ball And Grasshoppers Feast, And The Troublesome Rats Of Morocco.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Play script, letterpress pamphlet, 12mo (185 x 120mm, 7¼ x 4¾"). In non-original wrapper titled in ink mss. front cover. Glued to scrap sheet.
Dick Whittington and His Cat is a folk tale that has often been adapted for stage pantomimes and plays. It tells of a poor boy in the 14th century who becomes a wealthy merchant and eventually the Lord Mayor of London because of the ratting abilities of his cat. The character of the boy is named for a real life person, Richard Whittington, but there is no evidence that Whittington had a cat.The first recorded pantomime version of the story was in 1814, starring Joseph Grimaldi as Dame Cecily Suet, the Cook. The pantomime adds another element to the story, rats, and an arch villain, the Pantomime King (or sometimes Queen) Rat, as well as the usual pantomime fairy, the Fairy of the Bells. Other added characters are a captain and his mate and some incompetent pirates. In this version, Dick and his cat "Tommy" travel to Morocco, where the cat rids the country of rats. The Sultan rewards Dick with half of his wealth.
[Ref: 10642] £80.00

Ballet 1946-1947.
Covent Garden Books - Number One. Editor: Anthony Gishford.
Printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd. Norwich and Published by The Covent Garden Opera Trust. [n.d. c.1947.]
Book, 4to; 63 pages. Coloured cover of the stage from a right-wing box.
An illustrated sixty-three page book on the Royal Ballet. It includes contributions by Philip Page "The Royal Opera House", Anthony Gishford "The Covent Garden Opera Trust" and "Frederick Ashton" (with a portrait by Cecil Beaton), David Webster "Lord Keynes", Frances Harris "Ninette de Valois", Sacheverell Sitwell "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Giselle", and Michael Benthall "The Creation of a Ballet". This volume is superbly illustrated with portraits of the dancers and notables, including Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert, Frederick Ashton, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Harold Turner, Pamela May, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, David Paltenghi, Alexis Rassine, Beryl Grey, Michael Somes, and so on, together with photographs of performances and stagings. Among the photographs are works by Cecil Beaton, Germaine Kanova, Baron, Frank Sharman, Gordon Anthony, etc. Other illustrations include a colour plate depicting "William Chappell's backcloth design for the first act of Coppelia", and color photographs of performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" featuring Margot Fonteyn .Among the ballets featured in this, number one of the Covent Garden books, are "The Sleeping Beauty", "Giselle", "Adam Zero", "Les Sirenes".
[Ref: 23324] £140.00

Sulis Water. ''Supreme among Table Waters.'' The Natural Mineral Water of Bath, Aerated.
R.B. Cater, Sole Lessee under the Bath Corporation, The Springs, Grand Pump Room, Bath.
Pamphlet. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), pp. 24.
A text promoting the drinking of Bath water, published by a wine merchant who was selling it.
[Ref: 58560] £220.00

Catalogue of the Works of British Artists in the Gallery of the British Institution, Pall Mall, for Exhibition and Sale. 1836.
[London: The British Institution, 1836.]
4to, disbound; pp. (18) (numbered 7-20+(6)).
A list of 503 pictures and sculptures, with works by David Roberts (from his Spanish tour), Edwin Landseer, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner and William Beechey.
Ink ownership inscription of Richard James.
[Ref: 40885] £120.00

Explanatory Notes of A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards Temp. Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of The Commonwealth.
By Edmund Goldsmid, F.H.R.S., F.S.A. (Scot).
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid. 1886.
Rare letterpress pamphlet, 8vo (255 x 165mm, 10 x 6½"), 23 pp., including titlepage and introduction. In original vellum printed wrapper. Extremities chipped and tatty. Covers soiled. Light spotting to all pages.
The significance of all 53 playing cards from a facsimile of a unique set printed on the 13 sheets that accompanied this guide [missing] is explained. The cards were originally engraved on copper by a Royalist sympathiser during the reign of Charles II. Each card represents a personage or incident during the Civil War.
British Library: 001453612.
[Ref: 12312] £420.00

Die Schachspieler. Les jouers d'echecs. The Chess-Players. A Drawing by Moritz Retzsch, explained, according to hints from himself, by C. Borr. von Miltitz.
MRetzsch 1831 [in plate, lower right].
Verlag des Herausgebers. Druck der Teubner'schen Officin in Dresden. [German, n.d., c.1840.]
Outline etching, Satan playing chess with Man for his Soul; together with three letterpress explanation leaves in German, English and French (as called for), in original printed paper wrappers. Oblong folio, 260 x 340mm, 10¼ x 13½". Very rare in this the original presentation. Wrappers soiled and tatty; trace of vertical crease. Damage to right corner of front two pages and back.
The fantastic allegorical composition shows a winged angel watching the game with sorrowful expression; the gaming board rests upon an elaborately carved table placed underneath a gothic arch carved with animal, lion and skull motifs. Designed and engraved by Moritz Retzsch (German, 1779 - 1857).
[Ref: 19553] £290.00 view all images for this item

A Letter of Comfort to Richard Cromwell Esq; Alias Lord Richard, Alias Richard Protector: Sent Him Since the Alteration of His Titles and Our Government; From, A Servant of his late Highness, and the late Highness of his late deceased Father, and a kinsman of the late deceased Highness of his still surving Mother.
London, Printed 1659.
Pamphlet, pp.6, uncut, bound into a card folder, very scarce. Some creasing.
'Sir. The World dos not so much bewaile the fall of your late Highness, as wonder you could fall so easily from it, and not crush any thing but your Highness'. A philosophic look at the fall from power of Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector for just nine months after the death of his father, Oliver Cromwell. Lacking the support of the New Model Army he found his position untenable and allowed himself to be bought off. The author suggests the reins of power would pass to Richard's brother Henry, but the office of Lord Protector was abolished. A year later the monarchy was restored. One copy of this pamphlet is dated 'June 13th', which would date the pamphlet to around three weeks after his protectorate formally came to an end.
ESTC: 27 copies listed.
[Ref: 31769] £420.00

A Key to the Political Sketches of H.B. Nos 1 - 200, Arranged as Published, up to June, 1832. Price 2s. Each Plate.
Published Solely by Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, London. Where complete sets and keys may be had.
8vo pamphlet, partially unopened. Ink ownership stamps on front and back, ink mss note on front.
A pamphlet listing the titles of the first 200 caricatures drawn by John Doyle (1797 - 1868) under the pseudonym 'H.B', with a key to the personages satirised. Eventually the index reached at least 600.
[Ref: 37178] £140.00 view all images for this item

The Bitter Water of Friedrichshall by Dr Eisenmann. Translated from the German by Dr Fr. D'Alquen.
Wurzburg. Typography of Michael Walz, 1856.
Pamphlet. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), pp. 24.
A text promoting the drinking of mineral water.
[Ref: 58561] £220.00

[Prospectus] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation with an Introductory Essay by Gwyn Jones. With Six Engravings in Colour by Dorothea Braby. Printed in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press 1952.
[1952.]
Pamphlet, 315 x 190mm (12½ x 7½; pp. (iv), with one colour-printed wood engraving.
A prospectus for the book, reproducing the titlepage, one plate and a page of text. The back page describes the publication.
Property of Nigel C. Talbot
[Ref: 60887] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Fund for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Indian Mutiny. At a Meeting of the Inbabitants of Nottingham and the Neighbourhood...
[Nottingham, 1857.]
Scarce letterpress pamphlet, pp. 4. 250 x 210mm (8¾ x 8¼"). Creased.
A leaflet promoting the fund, listing the subscribers, including the Duke of Portland and Earl Manvers, who contributed £100 each. At the end of the list is written in ink mss 'Your subscription is respectfully solicited'.
[Ref: 53200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Gallery of Poets, Pall-Mall and Fleet-Street, April 2, 1790. Catalogue of the Third Exhibition of Pictures, Painted for Mr. Macklin by the Artists of Britain, Illustrative of the British Poets, and the Bible.
London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.
4to, lacking covers; pp. 42.
Guide to an exhibition of 41 paintings by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Cosway, Hamilton and others, mounted to publicise two of Thomas Macklin's publications. 'Macklin's British Poets' was a series of 100 paintings illustrating famous English poems, published monthly as engravings between 1790 and 1795, many engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. His three-volume Bible contained 70 plates and has a production cost estimated at £30,000. According to the Dictionary of National Biography the Macklin Bible 'endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled'.
[Ref: 40883] £120.00

The Fratricide, or the Murderer's Gibbet, Being the Right Tragical Hystorie of Sir J. Dinely Goodere, Bart., Who was murdered by his Brother, Capt. Samuel Goodere, and Assistants, On the 19th of January, 1741, on board his Majesty;s Ship the Ruby, 64. then lying in Kingroad, Bristol. To the Editor of the Bristol Mirror.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Letterpress pamphlet; 8vo, pp. (iv) with wood-engraved illustration. Some age-toning, glue stains, old ink mss, correction.
The transcript of a letter to the editor of the Bristol Mirror, in which the unnamed correspondent tells of being shown the gibbet irons in which the body of one of the murderers, Matthew Mahony, was displayed, with an illustration of the contraption. Feeling slighted by what he regarded as an unfair division of an inheritance, Captain Samuel Goodere arranged for his older brother, Sir John Dinely Goodere, to be abducted, taken to his ship (HMS Ruby) and garrotted. Found guilty, the three were executed on the 20th April 1741 and hung in chains.
See item 21373 for a contemporary print with portraits and scenes.
[Ref: 40958] £50.00

Murder of Mrs Frances Ruscombe and Her Maid, In College Green A.D. 1764.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Letterpress pamphlet; 8vo, pp. 4, Glue stains.
A description of an infamous Bristol murder by Richard Smith, who seems to have a fascination with examining notorious murders.
[Ref: 40959] £50.00

Requirements of the Age; Annual List for 1858.
The International Patent Office, 33, Essex Street, Strand, London.
Letterpress pamphlet, pp. 4. Folds.
A list of 100 suggestion for inventors, including: '1. Efficient and economical methods of effecting Agricultural Operations by Steam'; '20. A Method of simultaneously Lighting Street Lamps by Electricity, or otherwise'; and the eternal quest, '53 A Motor working without fuel...'.
[Ref: 53268] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, M.DCCCXIII. The Forty-Fifth.
London: Printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, Printer to the Royal Academy. (Price One Shilling.)
4to pamphlet, pp. 42 (list of exhibits)+(8)(lists of members & exhibitors). Some usage wear, contemporary ink marginalia throughout.
The brochure to the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1813, with manuscript notes to the paintings by 'Richard James'. Among the exhibits are J.M.W. Turner's 'Frosty Morning' (described by James as 'a large picture much below what I conceived of Turner'); Philip Reinagle's 'group of stages' ('tame and mannered'); Arnaud's 'Boar that killed Adonis' ('a very good picture - but too gaudy'); and James Ward's 'A favourite hunter ' ('excellent') and 'A hunter' ('capital').
[Ref: 40875] £260.00 view all images for this item

The Society for the Propagation of Practical Christianity in All Nations.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Scarce lithographic leaflet. 450 x 580mm (17½ x 22¾"), folded once as issued.
A prospectus for 'The Society for the Propagation of Practical Christianity in All Nations', a Lutheran body founded in Augsburg in 1775.
[Ref: 57594] £280.00

A Catalogue of Spanish Books and Manuscripts
[c.1780]
4to, 22pp.
Catalogue listing, in alphabetical order, volumes in Spanish available from a British dealer in the late 18th century.
[Ref: 39668] £80.00

Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition. Speech by J.C. Squire at the Opening Ceremony 28th June, 1932.
The Old Court House. John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd. Booksellers to His Majesty the King. 350 Oxford Street, London, W. Printed by George W. Jones. Gough Square, London, E.C.4.
Printed booklet. 178 x 114mm. 7 x 4½".
The speech was delivered by J.C. Squire at the Opening of the Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition on 28th June 1932. The opening ceremony was performed by Mrs Reginald Hargreaves (the original Alice); other speakers were the Very Rev. The Dean of Christ Church, Sir Gerald du Maurier and B.J. Collingwood (Lewis Carroll's nephew). The last page shows a reproduction of the invitation card as designed by Rex Whistler. The ornate design includes the famous images of the Cheshire cat, Alice, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the Queen of Hearts, with a croquet hoop and ball by her feet.
[Ref: 18032] £120.00 view all images for this item

[Two French tableware salesman's brochures.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Oblong 4to, plain paper binders as issued: vol 1 with 16 halftone plates of cutlery samples; vol 2 with 16 halftone plates of cutlery samples, 12 plates of tea pots, trays and other tableware, an additional cutlery plate and a photograph of a coffee pot and sugar pot. 1 plate loose, paper age-toned.
A product catalogue, with randomly numbered plates, i.e. H & C. Stamp at top right in red.
[Ref: 48825] £450.00 view all images for this item

Catalogue of the Sketches and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Exhibited in Marlborough House In the Year 1857-8. Accompanied with Illustrative Notes.
By John Ruskin, M.A.
London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square. 1857.
8vo pamplet, stitched; pp. 53 + ii (publisher's ad). Old ink mss. ownership inscription, with small hole caused by pen.
The guide to a posthumous exhibition of over 200 Turner's paintings, written by the pre-eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin (1819-1900), whose 'Modern Painters' (1843) was an a defence of Turner's work.
[Ref: 40882] £130.00

The Duke's Funeral: A Poem.
By Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart., Late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford.
London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., Foreign Booksellers, 148 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1852.
Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16, two wood engravings. With ink mss envelope (?) with Doyle's signature pasted at rear. Lacking wrappers, pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper.
With an interior of Chelsea Hospital during the lying-in-state, and a view of the funeral procession with the hearse. Doyle (1810-88) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1867 and caricatured by Spy in 1877.
[Ref: 37182] £160.00 view all images for this item

Ode of the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate.
London: Edward Moxon, Dovers Street Street, 1852.
Rare letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16. Wrappers and pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper.
Six pages of verse composed by Tennyson two years after he became Poet Laureate and over thirty years before he was ennobled.
[Ref: 37179] £240.00

Catalogue of Works of Art Sent In, Pursuant to the Notices Issued by Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Fine Arts, for Exhibitio in Westminster Hall.
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1844.
4to, disbound; pp. 24.
A list of 183 sculptures, frescoes and pictures submitted for the decoration of the New Palace at Westminster, rebuilt after the disastrous fire of 1834. A Royal Fine Art Commission under the presidency of Prince Albert had been set up, which decided to encourage a British school of history painting. Among the exibitiors is William Dyce, who was the first to start fresco work in the Palace in 1848, completing only five of the seven commissioned works before he died in 1864.
Ink ownership inscription of Richard James and John Martin.
[Ref: 40887] £160.00

Amateur Concert of Vocal & Instrumental Music in the School-Room of Weston-under-Penyard, on Tuesday, The 2nd of May, 1865.
Ross: Printed by Richard Powle, MDCCCLXV.
8vo, printed wrappers; pp. 12. 180 x 125mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Some pencil mss.
With music by Beethoven, Gounod Haydn and Rossini.
[Ref: 53202] £60.00

Amateur Concert of Vocal & Instrumental Music in the School-Room of Weston-under-Penyard, on Wednesday, April 20th, 1864.
Ross: Printed by Richard Powle, MDCCCLXIV.
8vo, printed wrappers; pp. 12. 180 x 125mm (7¼ x 4¾").
With music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Gluck, Gounod and Dibdin.
[Ref: 53201] £60.00

Catalogue of the Works of the Late Sir David Wilkie R.A. together with a Selection of Pictures by Ancient Masters, with which The Proprietors have favoured the Institution. June 1842.
[London: The British Institution, 1842.]
4to, disbound; pp. (10) (numbered 7-16).
A list of the 193 paintings of Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) exhibited at the British Institution a year after his death, listing the owners of the paintings.
Ink ownership inscription of Richard James.
[Ref: 40884] £120.00

Les Femmes d'Aujourd'hui. Nouvelles Études sur la Toilette. Extraites de La Vie Parisienne.
En Vente aux Bureaux de La Vie Parisienne. Paris, 1882.
Pamphlet; folio, 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"); illustrated wrappers with publisher's ads, title with wood-engraved illustrations, 10 folding wood-engraved plates. Covers stained, spine distressed, some plates loose.
A collection of illustrations from 'La Vie Parisienne', with drawings of women posing artistically in various stages of undress, with letterpress descriptions. The magazine ran from 1863 until 1970.
[Ref: 58192] £180.00 view all images for this item

Les Femmes d'Aujourd'hui. Nouvelles Études sur la Toilette. Douze Grandes Series Extraites de La Vie Parisienne.
En Vente aux Bureaux de La Vie Parisienne. Paris, 1884.
Pamphlet; folio, 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"); illustrated wrappers with publisher's ads, title with wood-engraved illustrations, 12 folding wood-engraved plates. Covers stained, spine distressed, some plates loose.
A collection of illustrations from 'La Vie Parisienne', with drawings of women posing artistically in various stages of undress, with letterpress descriptions. The magazine ran from 1863 until 1970.
[Ref: 58191] £180.00 view all images for this item

1874. Woman's Rights. An Original Epilogue.
by Horty Cultor, Esq., O.S.
Very scarce.
An epilogue advocating Woman's Rights. However it was not until 1928 that Woman received equal rights to men.
[Ref: 9370] £330.00

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