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Son of the painter Auguste Bonheur and nephew of the painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur, the French composer Raymond Bonheur lived in Magny les Hameaux, France. This letter addressed to him is from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Andre Gide. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Handwritten envelope and notelet within, both mounted on front and rear of… Read more…

A very elaborately bound hardcover edition of The Poetical works of Edward Young. Clean cloth covered green boards typical of the Victorian period circa. 1870 in good condition displaying a highly decorative combination of gilt and black text and decoration to front and spine panel. Small chip to top right front panel. Gilt text block edges in good… Read more…

Presentation copy of the 2nd impression lavishly inscribed to Patricia Dougill, recent and sudden widow of the architect Wesley Dougill, who led the Planning Group that helped prepare this report who died shortly before its publication. Both authors have signed the title page and tipped onto the title there is a most affectionate letter from Patric… Read more…

Young Anglesey man’s meticulously and decoratively laid out, hand written mathematical manuscript: full of calculations, rules and answers divided into sections titled Rule of Three in Decimals, Interest, Commission, Purchasing of Stocks, Compound Interest, Discount, Equation of Payments, Barter and Fellowship. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Half bound marb… Read more…

North Yorkshire map annotated during the Great War by Lady Florence Bell, President of the North Riding of Yorkshire Red Cross, to identify military hospitals that she oversaw across north Yorkshire. The map is made up of 40 panels printed on paper, backed onto linen with cloth covered card wraps and Lady Bell’s ownership inscription on the verso o… Read more…

An extensive collection of this Kentish artist’s work in designing bookplates and greetings cards. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Black paper covered boards with brown paper covered spine in fair condition. Spine tips and edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Chafed to front and rear. Embossed ‘Scraps’ to front board. Internally gutters tender over end papers, stil… Read more…

4 volumes bound extremely handsomely at a later date as 2. In notably splendid condition, both volumes are quarter bound in vibrant green marbled boards with stunning brown calf to spine. Boards in very fine condition. Spines in 6 compartments incorporating title lettered in gilt on red ground to top of spine and volume number lettered in gilt with… Read more…

A collection of 10 poetry books, largely firsts, by Jon Silkin all in good condition each containing the author’s signature and written notes to his friend Dennis Saunders. Saunders who died last year was a lecturer in poetry and literature who organised events involving writers who included Silkin himself, Seamus Heaney, Dannie Abse and others. Th… Read more…

FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL COPY: A compendium of information on matters connected with printing, its first introduction into Europe and its spread throughout the world. The work spans the reputed invention of paper in China in 105 through until the death of Stanley Morrison, typographer, scholar and historian of printing in 1967. PHYSICAL… Read more…

Crammed full of culturally important poems, each typed in black, one per leaf on Dickinson Croxley paper throughout the book. 128 pp. Commencing with the 6 th century BC Greek lyric poet Anacreon, the Roman Rufinus and moving through the courtly poets of France, 16 th and 17 th century English lyrical poets, 18 th and 19 th century Italian and Germ… Read more…

Jan Christian Smuts is a complex figure in South African history. His legacy is contested and evokes strong reactions. This biography is a record of Smut’s life by his son J.C. Smuts, inscribed by both the author and his mother, wife of the biography’s subject. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: South African edition published 1852. Original dust jacket protect… Read more…

Volume 1. A collection of John Ross Macduff’s verses, gathered from his prolific output of essays, books, magazines and papers and dedicated to his brother Hector Macduff Duncan. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Pale blue cloth bound boards in good condition, decoratively ruled in a black repeating pattern and lettered in gilt to front and spine. Lightly bump… Read more…

A small pamphlet by Eric Gill containing an essay/polemic on unemployment with specific reference to Catholicism and therefore, his beliefs. Owned by the critic and w iter Neville Braybrooke: Eric Gill was regarded as one of the greatest craftsmen of this century, a typographer, letter cutter and a wood engraver. His conversion to Catholicism influ… Read more…

Half bound marbled boards with soft calf to spine in fair condition. Boards faded, marked and bumped to corners. Spine panel starting and cracked to top showing 5cm section of binding. End papers age worn, binding visible along gutter but remain soundly attached. Front paste down soiled to fore edge and annotated in a contemporary hand ‘Anne Ellis… Read more…

Presentation copy from Earl Nelson to Horatio Nelson Eyre Matcham (1819-1845), son of George Nelson Matcham whose mother was Lord Nelson’s sister Catherine. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Dark green buckram boards in fair condition, stained to front and rear. Front board loosened along spine hinge. Spine chipped to top and tail, cream title label browned. C… Read more…

A story of war time adventure first published in serial form in Blackwood’s Magazine. Escapes and Adventures chronicles the author’s attempts to escape Ruhleben camp, a civilian detention camp in Germany during World War I and his subsequent time at Stadt Vogtei Prison Berlin during the war years. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Third impression. Signed by t… Read more…

Better known for his books on mid twentieth century British artists, architects and designers, Alan Powers also produced a considerable body of paintings and graphics, mostly in the 1980s. This booklet dated 1985 contains 6 reproductions of b/w theatrical in their style, drawings of fire places and their surrounds published by Alan Powers and his w… Read more…

Scarce Dundee Directory with the portrait of Winston Churchill, then MP for the town. The General Notice at the front of the directory notes in detail events leading to the by-election of Saturday 9th May which led to the announcement of Mr Churchill’s victory as MP for Dundee. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In good condition bound in red cloth covered boar… Read more…

A copy owned by two generations of 18th century London apothecaries, the second donating the book to the Society of Apothecaries. Contemporary speckled calf, cracked along outer hinges, boards attached but fragile. Bookplates of John Field (armorial) and below that Henry Field’s bookplate featuring an armillary sphere proferred by a mailed fist. Op… Read more…

Scarce and sturdy little volume of the Dundee Directory dated 1904 -1905 which includes advertisements, ecclesiastical lists, judicial lists, municipal lists, postal directories, street, trades and professions directories and a fold out plan of Broughty Ferry, plan of Newport and Wormit and plan of Tayport. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In good condition b… Read more…

A sturdy and handsome daybook which tells the story of the trading activities of a Lancashire merchant between the years 1824 – 1827. Packed full of hand written transactions, pricing and customer details pertaining to the provision of oats, barley, beans, salt etc in areas including Deansgate, Didsbury, Eccles, Salford, Bridgwater and Worsley. Tod… Read more…

A sturdy volume of the Dundee Directory dated 1896 -1897. Includes advertisements, ecclesiastical lists, municipal lists, judicial lists, postal directories, street, trades, general and professions directories and a fold out plan of Broughty Ferry. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In good condition bound in brown cloth covered boards incorporating blind rulin… Read more…

FIRST EDITION: Published by subscription and compiled from original sources with an introduction by Hamon Le Strange. Includes within 8 signed hand written letters from the author to WT Bewley Esq. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Good original cloth boards showing modest spots of wear and a little surface abrasion with bevelled edges and gilt lettering to fr… Read more…

An opera lover’s copy of this unique account of the different characters and traditions of twenty famous opera houses in 14 European cities. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1957 Second impression. Pale blue cloth covered boards in fair to good condition. Gilt title over red ground to spine which is damp stained. Dust jacket in good condition, nicked to spine… Read more…

The manorial estate of Aperfield Court was broken up after its purchase in 1895 by Frederick Henry Dougal of Wandsworth and the land sold off cheaply in small parts. It was not until after the Second World War however that the name of the area was changed from Aperfield to Biggin Hill in recognition of the Biggin Hill Aerodrome and the role played… Read more…