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PROMPT COPIES, DION BOUCICAULT’S OCTOROON & A COLERIDGE RARITY

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H W Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sheridan etc
1860
Fascinating bind-up of 29 plays, most dating from the 1860s, several bearing performance markings and ownership inscriptions. Acquired from a Lancashire farm house where the sammelband had spent 100-150 years, at the time entirely disbound. Now recased in tan coloured cloth over boards, preserving the original binder’s label for ‘Thorburn and Co, S… Read more…
#8284

£850.00

PORTFOLIO OF 19 COMIC & MILDLY EROTIC DRAWINGS: ‘Rough Sketches C W Anderson 41 Wash[ington] Sq[uare] New York City’

Clarence William Anderson
1930
Portfolio of signed comic and erotic sketches by a Nebraskan born artist, apparently compiled while in New York City. The sketches are housed in an ‘Anchor Clasp Envelope’ on which Anderson has written ‘Rough Sketches C.W. Anderson 41 Wash[ington’ Sq[uare] New York City.’ Old repairs to edges of the envelope. Anderson’s drawings are on thin paper (… Read more…
#8283

£2500.00

Fahrenheit 451 [First Edition]

Ray Bradbury
1954
First edition in publisher’s red cloth, a little faded to spine. Internally very good, one small note at the foot of the first flyleaf ‘A2’, otherwise unmarked. A key work of mid-century fiction. Read more…
#8282

£95.00

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [First Edition]

C S Lewis
1952
First edition, in publisher's light blue cloth. The binding is sound, a little spine lean and browning to the cloth; small white mark to lower board. No ownership inscriptions; trifling spotting to the text. The jacket is in two parts, torn along the lower hinge between the jacket’s spine and rear panel. There is childish writing to the upper panel… Read more…
#8281

£650.00

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

C S Lewis
1954
Second impression of the first edition, in publisher's light blue cloth. The binding is sound but lacking the front flyleaf and with old tape marks to both pastedown and half title opposite and similar on the final leaves. A few marks to the text which is complete and beautifully illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The jacket is in good condition only,… Read more…
#8280

£250.00

‘TO PAUL SCHOFIELD - HAMLET

V Komissarzhevsky
1959
Inscribed to a legendary Shakespearian to mark the first Shakespearian performance in Russia by a leading British actor since the Bolshevik Revolution. Folio sized volume bound in cream buckram, browning along the top edge of the flyleaf, below which is written in Russian script by the book’s author Victor Komisarzhevsky: ‘To Paul Scofield - Hamlet… Read more…
#8261

£450.00

92 LETTERS OF A LOVESICK YORKSHIRE CLERGYMAN

Joseph Foster & Elizabeth ‘Bet’ Musson
1865
Lovingly preserved letters sent by an adoring young Yorkshire Curate to his beloved fiance Elizabeth Musson in rural Lincolnshire. Between 1865 and the end of 1866 Joseph Foster sent his ‘Bet’ (presumably Betsy, or Elizabeth) 93 letters which she has gathered together and sewn into a borrowed vellum binding (and clasp) using pink legal ties. The bi… Read more…
#8264

£1250.00

‘OLD OAK FROM SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE’ A Relic of 19th Century Bardolotary

William Shakespeare [John Marshall]
1858
Carved oak removed from Shakespeare’s birthplace during the restoration of 1858 which followed the building’s purchase for the nation - with a presentation inscription written by the Stratford carver John Marshall who worked on the renovation himself. The length of oak is 22x5cm. On the flat side is written in black ink: ‘Old Oak from Shakespeare’s… Read more…
#7656

£400.00

THE BERNHARDT BIRTHDAY BOOK Being Quotations from the Chief Plays of Madame Sarah Bernhardt's Repertoire and other Works

Sarah Bernhardt, E M Evors [editor] Max Pemberton
1912
An uncommon book by the great Shakespearian actress, apparently produced for presentation purposes only, and this example copy is in very nice condition. Two-tone blue and tan cloth with gilt and fleur de lys decoration over bevel edged boards. All edges gilt; brown marbled endpapers. Internally near fine. Collates: [44] and 15 half tone photograph… Read more…
#8253

£250.00

MANUSCRIPT ORDERLY BOOK FOR THE BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL 1799-1802

Lieutenant Colonel H D Fraser
1799
Manuscript orderly book kept in Lisbon under the Command of General Cornelius Cuyler between 1st June 1799 - 9 April 1802. Octavo-sized manuscript notebook bound in reversed calf with blind embellishment; marbled endpapers. First few leaves severely affected by old dampstaining although the paper remains intact and the manuscript easily readable. T… Read more…
#8259

£1250.00

POST PRODUCTION SCREENPLAY Hamlet

William Shakespeare
July 1969
Hamlet post-production screenplay for the 1969 British film adaptation starring Nicol Williamson - seemingly not found in any institutional collection. Foolscap sized paper held together by corroded staples. Rust marks to front cover which is partially detached from the text block. Typescript of c100 pages, mimeograph-printed on the rectos only. Oc… Read more…
#8260

£450.00

PRESENTATION COPY Classification and Uses of Finger Prints

Sir Edward Henry
1901
Inscribed copy of this second edition of Henry’s fingerprint system which became the 'sole official method employed in the identification of habitual criminals in this country.' Green cloth, near very good, inscribed on the first (browned) flyleaf ‘Major Arthur Griffiths from the writer. Feb.: 1905’. Errata slip bound in ahead of the title page and… Read more…
#8255

£350.00

NEWCASTLE CARTULARY ISSUED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTH, OWNED BY SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS: Newcastle Great Charter of 1601; the Decrees of December 1603 & February 1604

The Council of the North - John Feare; Francis Burrell
1603
Rare manuscript survival from the Council of the North, written in York or Newcastle itself, in the final months of Elizabeth I’s reign. This volume from the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps presents Elizabeth I’s Great Charter of Newcastle from 1599 together with two further decrees relating to the city which have been signed off - or attested - by… Read more…
#8141

£11500.00

BRITAIN & AMERICA 1767-1812 - 25 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

Parliament
1767
Collection of Acts of Parliament printed between 1767 and 1812 legislating on Britain’s relationship with its American colonies and subsequently the newly fledged United States. These Acts are disbound and altogether the 25 Acts run to 114 pages. Subjects under British law include the vexed problem of taxation on imports from North America (Rice,Sa… Read more…
#8138

£1250.00

PLATES DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK - Rare set of Separately issued Plates for Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - George Cruikshank
1838
Unrecorded perhaps unique surviving set of Cruikshank’s illustrations to Oliver Twist, issued by the book’s publisher as a loose, possibly promotional, set simultaneous with first publication. 20 plates (150x243mm) are loosely contained in a bifolium printed wrapper which has separated along the spine. This bears a modified version of the title pag… Read more…
#8123

£950.00

22 IMPRINTS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES chronicling the controversial Presidency of Edward King

Society of Antiquaries [Benjamin Way; Edward King]
1777
A compelling collection chronicling the short-lived Antiquaries’ Presidency of Edward King, owned and annotated by a friend of King’s and including 5 unrecorded imprints. Large quarto (27x21.5cm), 18th-century full calf; narrow gilt border to the boards, spine prettily tooled in gilt, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges - bind… Read more…
#8098

£2950.00

PENNSYLVANIA MANUSCRIPT COPY OF THE QUAKER BOOK OF DISCIPLINE ‘From our yearly meeting at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and the Jerseys..’

Susan Lukens - Daniel Koll
1860
Manuscript copy by the Pennsylvania Quaker Susan Lukens of the 1719 Book of Discipline ‘From our yearly meeting at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and the Jerseys...’ PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Small notebook, green cloth spine over marbled boards, rubbed to edges, slight loss to cloth at tail of spine. A dedication in the hand of the manuscript’s author… Read more…
#8046

£1250.00

‘I AM RECKON’D A SCHISMATICK’ - Spiritual Diary, Poems and Letters of a Dissenting Cornishman

Bernard Rowse
1686
A remarkable manuscript (c200,000 words) that begins in London just before the 1688 Revolution and charts its author’s return to his Cornish village where he pleads for the right to remain in communion with both ‘Episcopal and Presbiterial’ congregations. Over 300 pages the manuscript plots Rowse’s efforts to assuage both conscience and Cornish nei… Read more…
#8031

£7500.00

LETTER BOOKS OF A FRENCH DOUBLE-AGENT & ASSASSIN AT THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE

Antoine de Guiscard, Abbe de la Bourlie, Marquis de Guiscard
1705
Three manuscript Letter Books (1704-1708) kept by a Franco-British double agent in London which record his efforts to lead a British invasion and his charismatic hold over British and European monarchs and ministers - worthy of a full Hollywood treatment. Antoine de Guiscard’s meteoric rise was followed by an equally precipitous fall from grace whi… Read more…
#7940

£12500.00

EARLIEST WOMEN’S COLLEGE WEST OF THE ROCKIES Mills College Photo Album, Oakland

C R Stead, R Davis etc
1891
Richly varied photo album depicting student life at Mills College in Oakland shortly after it was chartered as the first women’s college west of the Rockies. Large oblong album (15x11inches) ‘Photographs’ in gilt to upper, textured cloth covered board. Light wear to edges but the binding remains sound, though some weakening to the cloth covering ov… Read more…
#7768

£2850.00

UNPUBLISHED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SWISS PHYSICS - A Compendium of the Aristotelian: & Cartesian Physics

John Roberts - Johann Heinrich Schweitzer
1701
Manuscript translation by an English lawyer determined to inject his enthusiasm for Lucretius into this work by a 17th century Swiss natural philosopher - completing his English makeover with marginal references to Milton’s Paradise Lost. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Quarto in modern half tan calf over marbled boards; an eighteenth century presentation in… Read more…
#8245

£6500.00

BOOK OF HOURS: Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, 340 pages & 3 Miniatures

Northern French Artist
1450
Late medieval Book of Hours written and illuminated for a woman patron who is depicted in a double-page of miniatures kneeling before the Virgin Mary to receive the gift of this manuscript. This Book of Hours was made in a northern French workshop of the second half of the fifteenth century, perhaps Rouen or Paris. It has attractive female provenan… Read more…
#8243

£19500.00

LOST HAMLET PAINTING COPIED FROM FUSELI: A Platform before the Castle of Elsinore: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost

[Henry Fuseli - Johann Heinrich Füssli - William Shakespeare]
1830
Early nineteenth century oil-painted copy of Fuseli’s lost 1789 painting which depicts the ghost of Hamlet's father beckoning away his son to hear the terrible story of his death. Oil on wooden panel, 44.5x57.5cm, label to verso from its appearance at the 1969 Zurich Fuseli exhibition, wood repair to verso reinforcing a vertical split in the wood w… Read more…
#8242

£8500.00

2 SETS OF 18TH CENTURY ‘CHARACTERS’ The Wooden World Dissected in the Characters [WITH] Mars Stript of His ArmourL or, the Army Display’d in all its True Colours

Edward Ward ‘A Lover of the Mathematicks’
1708
Grub-Street satirist and publican, Ned Ward’s set of military characters, including ‘A Spy’, bound together with an incomplete set of his more common naval characters - 1709 and 1708. Contemporary panelled calf with two spine labels and remains of an overlaid morocco label to the second compartment. Skilful repair to the head and tail of the spine… Read more…
#8240

£1950.00

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY

Claude Shannon, David Lewis, Thyllis Williams etc
1950
Just as ChatGPT has pushed AI from a hot topic in the tech industry to a global news phenomenon, so AI has become the defining technology of our age. This collection forms a unique record of the creation of Artificial Intelligence during the early years of computing in the form of 59 unpublished typescripts, offprints, photographs, ephemera and ass… Read more…
#8237

£100000.00