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ARBER] [Edward
An English Garner. [Ingatherings from our History and Literature. COMPLETE SET OF THE BEST EDITION
12 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus and Best Edition, on laid paper, some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops (save Beazley), uncut, a very good, bright, firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library [Edinburgh].This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken (G.A). Later Stuart Tracts (1903); Beazley (C.R). Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries (2 vols) (1903); Bullen (A.H). Shorter Elizabethan Poems (1903); Bullen (A.H). Some Longer Elizabethan Poems (1903); Collins (J.C). Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903); Firth (C.H). Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 (1903); Lang (A). Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (1903); Lee (S). Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed (2 vols; 1904); Pollard (A.F). Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 (1903); Pollard (A.W). Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse (1903). Scarce as a set, especially in this condition.
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BAYNE-POWELL Rosamond
English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 9 plates on 7, free endpapers lightly spotted; pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, a bright, clean copy.
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BOND Francis
Dedications & Patron Saints of English Churches. Ecclesiastical Symbolism. Saints and their Emblems.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and over 250 illustrations from photographs (many full-page) in the text; original buckram, upper board lettered in white, neatly rebacked with new paper label lettered in black, a very good, clean copy. A standard reference, and useful complement to Arnold-Forster.
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BOND Francis
Wood Carvings in English Churches [Volume II]. I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishops' Thrones and Chancel Chairs.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates from photographs in the text; original buckram, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. A standard reference . Read 2699.
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BENFIELD Eric
Southern English. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations in the text; neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, backstrip sunned else a firm, clean copy.
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BIRMINGHAM
Four Tracts relative to the Battle of Birmingham. Anno Domini 1643. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. First published in London in 1643, these tracts were reprinted at Birmingham in 1815 and again at the Birmingham School of Printing in 1931. VERY SCARCE.
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BOUQUET A.C.
Church Brasses, British & Continental with some Notes on Incised Stone Slabs and Indents.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 129 monochrome illustrations (manu full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy.
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BRANDON Raphael
The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages. Illustrated by perspective and working Drawings of some of the best Varieties of Church Roofs.
Roy. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plans, 38 monochrome plates and 11 illustrations in the text, some occasional spotting as usual, rather heavier on frontispiece; publisher's cloth, richly blocked in gilkt and blind, gilt back, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. The work was designed for use by church architects and presents working drawings of no fewer than 35 church roofs.
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DAHL Folke
A Bibliography of English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks, 1620-1642. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 16 facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of grey boards, oatmeal holland back lettered in black, a near fine copy.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY CAMBRIDGE
A Hand-List of English Books in the Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, printed before MDCXLI.
8vo., on laid paper; original boards, holland back, uncut and partly unopened, a very good, clean copy. With an introductory note by A.W. Pollard, the work lists some 2,600 volumes
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BORENIUS Tancred
English Medieval Painting.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 101 fine plates in collotype (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 11 illustrations in the text; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean, bright copy. Standard reference uncommon in this condition.
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BENNETT H.S.
Life on the English Manor. A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 6 and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The original edition of this standard reference is elusive in this condition.
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BUDDEN Charles W.
English Gothic Churches. The Story of their Architecture.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 40 sepia-toned plates and 53 illustrations in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, backstrip sunned to brown (but all gilt bright and entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. As usual with this publisher, an excellent and well-illustrated general survey. Includes an index of examples by county. Uncommon in this condition.
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WHITE Newport J. D.
A Short Catalogue of English Books in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin printed before MDCXLI. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, sewed as issued in the Society's dove-blue wrappers, uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. 'Bibliographical Society, Catalogues of English Books', No. I. Newport White was Marsh's Librarian.
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CESCINSKY Herbert
English Domestic Clocks. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs by the Authors. [Second Edition].
Sm. folio, Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, monochrome plates and many hundreds of illustrations in the text; original half morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, joints rubbed (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference. The first edition was published in the previous year.
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COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor
Notes on English Divines. Edited by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge. FIRST EDITION IN UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., 16mo., First Edition; original grained brown cloth, sides elaborately blocked in blind, gilt backs, yellow endpapers, uncut and partially unopened, cloth split with minor loss at upper inch of each backstrip, hinges tender (but bindings entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean set in wholly unrestored publisher's original binding. Complete with half-titles, and 8pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1852) bound in at front of first volume. The work is based on the 'Literary Remains'. This is an early issue as denoted by the date of the publisher's catalogue. Shepherd, p.67; Wise 95.
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COX J. Charles
English Church Furniture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 50 plates on 29 and very numerous line illustrations in the text, free endpapers browned; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With publisher's 4pp series in red and black, and general 40pp catalogue bound in at end. With the trade ticket of Blinko of Ramsgate on rear paste-down. Published in Methuen's fine 'Antiquary's Books' series.
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COX J. Charles
Bench-Ends in English Churches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First and Sole Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates from photographs in the text, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original buckram lettered in white, backstrip faded as often else a very good, clean copy. Increasingly elusive standard reference. Includes a list by county.
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COX J. Charles
County Churches. Cumberland and Westmorland.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 13 plates, 14 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps, some light offsetting to free endpapers; decorative cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Arguably the scarcest volume in Allen's delightful 'County Churches' series. Each volume gives a detailed historical introduction followed by a list of churches in alphabetical sequence, together with a list of modern churches. Hodgson, p.86.
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CRASHAW Richard
The English Poems of Richard Crashaw. Edited, with an Introduction & Notes by Edward Hutton.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on India Paper, with a frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, front endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original series binding of leaf-green buckram, upper board with gilt hearts at corners (blind hearts on lower board), gilt back, gilt top, uncut, green silk marker, a very good, clean copy. This delightful edition is published in Methuen's 'Little Library'. A 4pp prospectus of the series, with introduction by Frederic Harrison and specimen page from 'Vanity Fair', is bound in at end. Scarce.
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CURRIE C.R.J.
A Guide to English County Histories.
4to., First Paperback Edition, with a frontispiece and 25 plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. An important and extremely useful study which, in addition to its historial and bibliographical surveys of the counties, includes a moving tribute by Susan Reynolds to Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History.
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CUTTS Rev. Edward L.
An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with 10 coloured, tinted and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, original gilt from upper board and backstrip, bookplate and trade ticket all preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 8pp advertisement (unopened) for the Clerical Journal bound in at end. With the armorial bookplate of Christopher T Perowne, and contemporary trade ticket of Fletcher & Alexander of Norwich. The signature on the title is that the Rev. J. Spurgeon Green, sometime vicar of St. Mark's Marylebone. Cutts' valuable essay was written originally as a supplement to the Clerical Journal. Its importance was recognised immediately and he was urged to produce a revised and augmented version with additional woodcuts and the ten famous plates. A SPLELNDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE TREATISE
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DAVENPORT Cyril
The English Regalia. FINE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CROWN JEWELS. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to. First Edition, on laid paper, title and dedication in red and black, with 12 fine chromo-lithographed plates and numerous illustrations in the text; attractively bound in burgandy buckram, navy morocco back gilt, uncut, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 302).
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DAVENPORT Cyril
Royal English Bookbindings.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 fine coloured plates, and 27 monochrome illustrations in the text;, free endpapers faintly browned; original plum cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, covers unevenly faded at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. A very nice, bright copy of a standard reference. Uncommon in this condition.
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DAVID Elizabeth
English Bread and Yeast Cookery. With Illustrations by Wendy Jones. [Fifth Impression thus].
8vo., Fifth Paperback Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. David's classic text was first published in 1977, with the paperback edition following in 1979.
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DITCHFIELD P.H.
English Villages. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Ditchfield's classic study was first published in 1901.
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MILNE (ed.) F.A.
The Gentleman's Magazine Library from 1731 to 1868. Edited by George Lawrence Gomme. Ecclesiology, edited by F.A. Milne.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; buckram, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. An additional volume to Elliot Stock's series of reprints of the magazine's topographical series. Perhaps the widest individually published collection of ecclesiological notes and studies, with contributions from many standard authorities including Parker and Walcott. VERY SCARCE
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ENGLISH L. S.
An Introduction to the Collecting and History of Whitby Prints. 210 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., folio, First and Sole Edition, with 277 reproductions of engravings and 25 head- and tail-pieces; original white buckram, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 210 COPIES.
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FOXELL Nigel
Amberley Church. A Critical Appreciation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. One of the most beautiful and historic villages in Sussex, Amberley has been the home of several artists including Arthur Rackham. St. Michael's Church dates from the eleventh century; this is one of the most scholarly and detailed surveys of any English parish church.
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FUSSELL G.E.
More Old English Farming Books from Tull to the Board of Agriculture: 1731 to 1793.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sequel and complement to 'The Old English Farming Books' (1947)
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GODWIN William
Essay on Sepulchres. Or, a Proposal for erecting some Memorial of the illustrious Dead in all Ages on the Spot where their Remains have been interred. 'WHERE IS SHAKESPEAR[sic]?' SPLENDID COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, wanting frontispiece, two small ink stains on inner margin of title only, neat signature on blank preliminary; very attractively bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf, textured cloth boards, back gilt with five raised bands, morocco label, speckled edges, brown endpapers, a remarkably crisp, clean textual copy of a very scarce work. 'In almost every ordinary church yard we may see altar-monuments, with the upper surface and some of the sides broken to pieces, and the whole a heap of ruins, even before they are fifty years old.' Godwin develops his thesis with passion, with fascinating references to the array and state of monuments in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and an account of visits to Thetford, Valle Crucis Abbey, Ewelme, Kenilworth, Reading Abbey and the Seven Churches in Ireland. He concludes with a request for an atlas or catalogue of sepulchres along the lines of a traveller's guide, to be 'of a very different measure of utility from the 'Catalogue of Gentlemen's Seats' which is now appended to the 'Book of Post-Roads through Every Part of Great Britain'. Godwin's eccentric treatise was the favourite book of his daughter Mary Shelley. Lamb, writing to Coleridge, termed it 'a very pretty, absurd book about sepulchres'. NCBEL II, 1250; Tinker 1083.
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GOSSE Edmund
English Odes. Selected by Edmund W. Gosse.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with an engraved frontispiece and title in red and black, free endpapers lightly foxed; original decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers a little age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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GREG W. W.
A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. [Second Edition. Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SECOND EDITION
4 vols., roy. 4to., Second Edition, with 4 frontispieces, titles in red and black , and 133 fine plates of facsimiles; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set. Much-needed re-issue of the standard reference first published in 1939 as the Bibliographical Society's: Illustrated Monograph 24. Besterman, p.1067; NCBEL IV, p.1049.
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ARNOLD-FORSTER Frances
Studies in Church Dedications, or England's Patron Saints. HANDSOME SET IN ORIGINAL BUCKRAM
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on each front free endpaper; original buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, first volume very neatly rebacked to style, covers very lightly scuffed else an unusually bright, clean set. The definitive study, including traditional saints, martyrs, soldiers, virgins, and professional, clerical and child-saints. With comprehensive indexes by saint, diocese, parish, period and dedication. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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HARRISON H.G.
A select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief Lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
8vo., original cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HEATH A.R. Ltd
[Sale Catalogue]. English Civil War and Commonwealth 1640-1660. [Catalogue No.2]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., with full-page illustrations in the text; original illustrated wrappers, a very good copy. An important catalogue listing 383 items.
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HORNSEY J.
English Exercises, Orthographical and Grammatical; in Two Parts: being a Selection of Choice Pieces, in Prose and Verse. With many original Reflections, etc. designed to improve the juvenile Mind in Spelling and Grammar. Sixth Edition.
12mo., Sixth Edition, endpapers mildly browned, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and small sketch on rear paste-down; original dark green ribbed cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in blind; sprinkled edges, a very good, firm, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Hornsey's well-known exercises were first published in 1818 and several times reissued. BLPC gives only the fifth edition of 1839. Very scarce in any edition.
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HOWARD F.E.
The Mediaeval Styles of the English Parish Church. A Survey of their Development, Design and Features.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 179 fine half-tone plates on 94, and illustrations and plans in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, endpapers lightly spotted and some occasional light spotting to text else a very good, clean copy. With a copy of the publisher's prospectus (8pp with illustrations) laid in. Having co-operated so sgnificantly with F.H. Crossley in 'English Church Woodwork' (1917) it is very greatly to be regretted that Howard published further before his death in 1934 at the early age of 45. His renown as an ecclesiastical architect had spread - E.A. Lamborn considered him the only authority whose knowledge of ecclesiastical art in the Middle Ages could be compared with that of the late Sir William Hope. Fortunately, Howard had brought the present work so close to completion that Lamborn was able to see it through to publication with very little alteration.
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HOWARD F. E.
The Mediaeval Styles of the English Parish Church. A Survey of their Development, Design and Features. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 179 fine half-tone plates on 94, and illustrations and plans in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate, and neat cancellation stamp on front free endpaper and rear paste-down only. Having co-operated so sgnificantly with F.H. Crossley in 'English Church Woodwork' (1917) it is very greatly to be regretted that Howard published further before his death in 1934 at the early age of 45. His renown as an ecclesiastical architect had spread - E.A. Lamborn considered him the only authority whose knowledge of ecclesiastical art in the Middle Ages could be compared with that of the late Sir William Hope. Fortunately, Howard had brought the present work so close to completion that Lamborn was able to see it through to publication with very little alteration.
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JOHNSON Samuel
Lives of the English Poets. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. With Brief Memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his Nephew Harold Spencer Scott. [Facsimile re-issue].
3 vols., 8vo., with printed and facsimile titles; cloth gilt, gilt backs, a fine copy. Much-needed high quality re-issue of the original Clarendon Press edition of 1905. Vol. I: Cowley-Dyden; Vol. II: Smith - Savage; Vol. III: Swift-Lyttleton. Already scarce, especially in this condition. Courtney & Smith, p.147 (recording the original edition of 1905).
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LEGER GALLERIES
[Sale Catalogue of] English Watercolours. November 17th-December 31st 1971. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, text on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, coloured illustration mounted on front wrapper, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 75 items, including works by Cotman, Pyne, Daniell, Rowlandson, Palmer, Girtin, Turner, Flint, Allingham. Howitt and others.
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LOWER Mark Antony
English Surnames. Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical, etymological and humorous. With Chapters of Rebuses and Canting Arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, List of Latinized Surnames, etc. Second Edition.
8vo., with title in red and black, and engraved illustrations in the text; original decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright copy. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end
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MACKLIN H.W.
Monumental Brasses.
8vo., with 21 illustrations in the text, wanting one blank preliminary; pictorial cloth, a very bright, fresh copy. 'Mr. Macklin's handbook is all that the enthusiastic collector of rubbings can desire' (contemporary review)
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MASSINGHAM (ed. and intro.) H.J.
English Country. Fifteen Essays by various Authors. Edited with an Introduction by H.J. Massingham. SCARCE US EDITION
8vo., First US Edition, with 15 plates (13 double-page); green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy of a scarce work.
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MAWER A.
The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire. [English Place-Name Society, vol. II].
8vo., First Edition, with two large folding maps in pocket at end; cloth, gilt back, covers and backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. English Place-Name Society, vol. II.
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MOTTRAM Ralph Hale
The English Miss.
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, green top, backstrip a little sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Fabes, p.52.
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NICHOLSON William
[Exhibition Catalogue of Paintings by] Sir William Nicholson 1872-1949. March 1967. [Introduction by Alan Bowness].
4to., with a frontispiece and 16 reproductions in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Scarce, especially in this condition
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OLLARD S. L .
A Dictionary of English Church History. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 2 maps in pocket rear; original cloth gilt, gilt back, small 'pulls' at headband else a very good, clean copy.
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PALMER R.L.
English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. An Outline of Monastic Architecture and Custom from the Conquest to the Suppression.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 75 illustrations, drawings and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text, a full-page pedigree and 6 large folding plans; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers a little cockled, corners lightly bruised, binding a little shaken else a good, sound, clean copy. A valuable introduction. Especially notable are the folding plans that chart the development of architectural features.
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SIMPSON F.
A Series of Antient [sic] Baptismal Fonts. Chronologically arranged. Drawn by F. Simpson, jun. Engraved by R. Roberts. PIONEER STUDY IN SIGNED ARABESQUE BINDING
4to., Sole Edition, with a copper-engraved frontispiece and 39 copper-engraved plates (all plates with original tissue guards) , some minor foxing as usual (rather heavier on the first few plates); full contemporary roan, sides with gilt frame border stopped at corners by a full point, enclosing an arabesque frame in gilt incorporating lotus and other floral tools, back gilt with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, gilt edges, gilt doublures, BY SMART OF OXFORD, covers a little worn and rubbed, joints rubbed, back rubbed, corners lightly bruised, hinges cracked but quite sound, short closed marginal tear in front free endpaper, one or two age-stains on covers else a very good, bright copy. In this pioneering work, widely regarded as the first serious study of the subject, Simpson has attempted to devise a system for classifying fonts by type. In essence, he provides a select inventory of Norman, Early English, Decorated and 'Perp' examples throughout the country.
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