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Lot 1

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in black ink on dedication page, 'To Jill, who very spookily gave me a beautiful card with something from Book Four on it! With many thanks, J K Rowling'. The book includes a loosely-inserted sealed envelope relating to the inscription (see provenance below), 's

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Lot 2

Hale, Kathleen. Orlando's Country Peepshow, three-dimensional book, London: Folding Books Limited, [1947]. Internally well-preserved, clean and bright; boards discoloured and slightly dented with light wear. 13.5cm height. Together with Orlando, A Seaside Holiday, c.1952 but lacking bottom of title page, ex-library, sold as found with all faults, a worn Orlando tin tray, two lengths of vintage fabric depicting the story of the three little pigs, three vintage postcards after Molly Brett & Racey

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Lang, Andrew. The Orange Fairy Book, first edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. Octavo, publisher's gilt orange cloth, all edges gilt, numerous illustrations throughout including eight colour plates, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown (Start & Sons, Worcester St, Wolverhampton). Contents very good, clean, bright; some very pale spotting in places, heavier/more pronounced on endpapers and tissue-guard; cloth very well-preserved and bright with only a few very small marks in places;

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Lang, Andrew. Collection of Fairy Books, early editions, including The Brown Fairy Book, first edition, 1904; Red Fairy Book, 1895; Blue Fairy Book, 1903; Violet Fairy Book, 1902; Green Fairy Book, 1902; Grey Fairy Book, 1924; Olive Fairy Book, 1918. Together with Lang's Animal Story Book, 1927, Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts, 1899, and three fairy books by other authors: The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson, 1917; The Italian Fairy Book, by Anne Macdonell, 1911, and The Silver Fa

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Collection of books, including children's & illustrated, to include Mother Goose, by Kate Greenaway, no date; Grimms' Fairy Tales and Household Stories, translated by Paull & Wheatley, n.d.; The Italian Fairy Book, by Anne Macdonell, n.d.; English Folk-Rhymes, by G. F. Northall, 1892; The Strange Story Book, by Andrew Lang, 1913; Field and Hedgerow, by Richard Jefferies, 1916; a badly worn Johnson's Dictionary, 1820, boards detached; Complete Guide to Westminster, 1896, and others, condition var

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Lot 6

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, A New Translation by Mrs Edgar Lucas, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., [1907]. Octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth, colour frontispiece with protective tissue-guard, numerous illustrations throughout. Contents very good and bright, the extreme corners of a few pages are folded, occasional pale spots in places, spotting to endpapers and final leaves; binding tight and solid, well-preserved, some rubbing to boards and light wear t

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Hassell, J. The Camera, Or, Art of Drawing in Water Colours, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., [c.1823]. Publisher's blind-embossed cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated with three etched plates, including the hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece. Contents with occasional marks and pale spots; cloth worn, upper board detached. Together with All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, by N. Bailey, second edition, London: Knapton et al., 1733, bearing armorial bookplate for Melv

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Lot 8

Association copies & ephemera from Matthew LaCroix (author of the fan mail that was famously used on the dust-jacket of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this being a collection of gifts from Bloomsbury to Matthew, together with correspondence and contemporary newspaper clippings recording his story. Collection comprising: Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback, featuring Bloomsbury plate signed in black ink by the author (loosel

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Lot 9

Collection of books to include The Adventures of Rupert, [1949]; More Rupert Adventures, [1951]; The Beano Book, [1956]; Lawson Wood's Merry Monkeys, no date; The Art of the Illustrator, [c.1920], six parts only, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults, in one carton

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Lot 10

Scarce Victorian Pop-Up Book. A Visit to the Country, with Surprise Model Pictures, No.4 in Dean's "Surprise Model" Series, London: Dean & Son, no date, gift inscription dated 31 March 1896. Featuring delicate mechanical pop-up illustrations operated by cotton threads, chromolithographic designs. The mechanical pictures operate well considering the fragility of the design, slight wear and creasing in places; heavy toning to title page; handling marks throughout with slight wear in places; rubbin

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Lot 11

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her?, in two volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-65, illustrated with 40 plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and 20 woodcuts by the Dalziel Brothers, half-calf, bearing bookplates and owner inscriptions of Augusta Gertrude Knox Gore (2)

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Lot 12

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm, in two volumes, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1862, illustrated with 39 engraved plates by J. E. Millais, half-calf, bearing bookseller's ticket on front pastedown for D. W. Carroll, Dublin (2)

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Lot 13

Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, illustrated with steel-engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), half-calf, text-block good, externally sound, separated from contents inside cover, plates foxed. Together with Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844, and David Copperfield, London: Chapman & Hall, c. 1855, full calf, engraved plates. Sold as found with all faults (3)

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Le Keux, J. Memorials of Cambridge, in two volumes, London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841, illustrated with engraved plates and woodcuts, worn calf. Together with Memorials of Oxford, in three volumes, 1837, uniform calf, gilt borders, worn at edges (5)

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Lot 15

Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, with loosely-inserted newspaper clippings, 1935, plates, small quarto, tan buckram. Together with Austin Dobson: The Story of Rosina, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, London: Kegan Paul, 1895, and seven others (9)

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Lot 16

Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management, in two volumes, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1889, illustrated with chromolithographic plates and woodcuts, Vol. II lacking title page, old repair neatly done, sold as found with all faults (2)

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, illustrated with 40 full-page plates by Thackeray, earliest imprint with suppressed plate of the Marquis of Steyne and rustic heading to p. 1, worn half-calf, bearing label on front pastedown for Charles L. Lawrence, Oriental Club, Hanover Square, 'Bought this book at Sotheby's sale, July 18th 1924 for £12.10.0', and one other (2)

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Lot 18

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, edited by E. Thorold Rogers, in two volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, full calf, Cheltenham College embossed to covers, prize label awarded to W. R. Lawrence, 1874, front board of Vol. II is loose (2)

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Lot 19

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, first issue ('First published 1964' on copyright page), London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in silver & gold, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced 16s. net. Contents generally good, clean, bright, occasional pale spotting and marks, two swatted flies; cloth good with light bumping and faint wear to corners, shelf-lean; light toning and pale spotting to outer edges of text-block; jacket clean

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Lot 20

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse, second impression, London: Hogarth Press, 1927. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jacket, internally clean and bright, neat ownership bookplate, general discolouration and light bumping/wear to cloth. Together with 15 other books, including The Waves, second impression, 1931; A Room of One's Own, fifth impression, 1930; Orlando, first edition, 1928; The Years, first edition, 1937; Granite & Rainbow, first edition, 1958; Walter Sicke

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Lot 21

Woolf, Virginia. Collection of assorted books by or about Woolf, to include The Letters of Virginia Woolf, in six volumes, London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-80; The Diary of Virginia Woolf, in five volumes, London: The Hogarth Press, 1977-84; Virginia Woolf, A Biography, by Quentin Bell, London: The Hogarth Press, 1972, featuring loosely-inserted schedule for the Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference at Fitzwilliam College, 20-22 September 1982, which has been signed by the author as well as several

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Lot 22

Collection of books to include The Bondmaid, by Pearl S. Buck, Limited de Luxe Edition signed by the author and numbered 25 of 750, London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1949, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt; Mountains & Molehills, by Frances Cornford, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat, Cambridge: University Press, 1934, blue cloth with worn jacket; The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry, in two volumes, London: Constable & Co., 1928, publisher's cloth; Chamber M

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Lot 23

Collection of illustrated books to include The Patch Work Quilt, by Graham R. Tomson, London: Ernest Nister, pictorial paper covers with silk ties, remnants of dust-jacket; Marigold Garden, by Kate Greenaway, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., n.d., quarter cloth with worn jacket; Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the Far East, by Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, London: Wells Gardner, n.d., gilt pictorial cloth with worn jacket, and others, condition var

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Lot 24

Lawrence, D. H. The Man Who Died, limited edition (one of 2000), London: Martin Secker, 1931; Apocalypse, London: Martin Secker, 1932; Mornings in Mexico, second impression, London: Martin Secker, 1927; Phoenix, London: Heinemann, 1936; Reminiscences of, by John Middleton Murry, London: Jonathan Cape, 1933; Not I, But the Wind, by Frieda Lawrence, London: Heinemann, 1935, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (6)

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Collection of six books, comprising: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Willy Pogany, London: Harrap, no date; The Crescent Moon, by Rabindranath Tagore, London: Macmillan, 1929; The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, by E. H. Whinfield, second edition, London: Kegan Paul, 1893; A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell, New York: Little & Ives, 1932; Models of Propriety, by W. Russell Flint, London: Michael Joseph, 1951; The Art and History of Frames, by Henry Heydenryk

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Collection of books to include The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, designs and text by Harry & Mary Quilter, London: Harry Quilter, 1898, quarto, gilt red cloth; Fables from Aesop, translated by James Sabben-Clare, woodcuts by Richard Atkinson-Willes, Winchester College Printing Society, 1976, signed by both and numbered 187 of 400, blue cloth, and other illustrated works, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (8)

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Folio Society. Collection to include Jane Austen, set of seven volumes, illustrated with woodcuts by Joan Hassall, second edition thus, 1978; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, illustrated by Diana Sudyka, 2008; The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White, 2009; The Canterbury Tales, in two volumes, illustrated by Edna Whyte, 1966; The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, in four volumes, illustrated by Eric Fraser, 1980; A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell, in four volumes

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Lot 28

The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzo, first edition, Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis, 1919, complete with ten plates as called for (including frontispiece), publisher's pictorial cloth, internally clean and bright, neat contemporary owner inscription, some general discolouration and slight wear around spine/headcaps and inner gutters; Blossoms from a Japanese Garden, by Mary Fenollosa, London: Heinemann, 1913, complete with 20 tipped-in colour plates as called for, publisher's pictorial cloth; Bu

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Natural History. Mixed collection of books, comprising: Audubon's Birds of America, Baby Elephant Folio edition, New York & London: Abbeville Press, 1990, white buckram, dust-jacket, slipcase; Anatomy and Physiology of the Honeybee, by R. E. Snodgrass, first edition, fourth impression, New York & London: McGraw-Hill, 1925, publisher's cloth; The Book of Poisons, by Gustav Schenk, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956, green cloth with worn d.j.; The Sacred Bee, by Hilda M. Ransome, London: George

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Lot 30

Music. Greene, Maurice. Forty Anthems in Score, Composed for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Voices, two volumes bound as one (two title pages), London: J. Walsh, Musick-printer and Instrument-maker to His Majesty, 1743, 138pp. and 155pp., featuring list of subscribers, the work includes Greene's most highly regarded masterpiece, 'Lord, let me know mine end' [p.91 of Vol. I], internally good with occasional folded corners, light annotation, pale spotting in places, crudely restored and heavily worn r

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Lot 31

Archer, Thomas. Charles Dickens: A Gossip About His Life, Works and Characters, London: Cassell, no date. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 18 photogravure plates by Frederick Barnard, plus other illustrations within the text. Contents generally good and bright with some pale dampstaining and light creasing in places; binding solid with wear around spine/headcaps/corners

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Winkles, Henry & Benjamin. Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, the Drawings Made from Sketches Taken Expressly for this Work, by Robert Garland, Architect, with Descriptions by Thomas Moule, three volumes bound as one (three title pages), London: Effingham Wilson, 1836-38-42, illustrated with 181 steel-engraved plates (including titles), protective tissue-guards, quarto, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, neat recent boo

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Wright, G. N. Ireland Illustrated, London: H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1831, illustrated with 80 steel-engravings, protective tissue-guards, quarto, half-calf lettered in gilt, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Edmund Boughton, neat recent bookplate, internally good and bright, occasional pale mark and spots, binding tight and square with some rubbing and wear

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Beattie, William. Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work by Messrs. T. Allom, W. H. Bartlett, and H. McCulloch, in two volumes, London: George Virtue, 1838, folding map, 123 steel-engraved plates and two vignette titles, quarto, half-calf with marbled boards, morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates for A. G. Archibald, plus neat recent bookplates, general discolouration and some pale spotting to contents, bindings tight and s

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Roscoe, Thomas. Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales, illustrated with 51 steel-engraved plates, London: C. Tilt, 1836, tall octavo, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, internally good with some general discolouration and pale spotting, neat recent bookplate on front pastedown. Together with Welsh Scenery from Drawings, by Captain Batty, London: R. Jennings, 1825, illustrated with 33 steel engravings, full blind-stamped morocco, silk endpapers, neat recent bookplate, conte

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Ross, Frederick. The Ruined Abbeys of Britain, in two volumes, London: William Mackenzie, n.d., illustrated with colour plates and wood-engraving within the text, folio, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, ownership plates for Rev. W. M. Tate-Stoat, Pebworth Vicarage, Nr. Stratford-on-Avon, blind-stamped for the same on title pages, plus neat recent bookplates, some pale staining and marks to contents, marking and light wear to bindings (2)

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Collection of miscellaneous books, predominantly mid-20th century novels, poetry, literary criticism, biography, to include Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, first standard edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935; Nonesuch Dickensia, Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937; The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, by George Bernard Shaw, London: Constable, 1932; How to Sing, by Lilli Lehmann, New York: Macmillan, 1914; The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West, first edition, publish

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Joyce, James. Ulysses, first UK trade edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1937. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright with a light crease running through opening pages; some pale spotting to endleaves and half-title/title; binding tight and square, some very light scuffs and marks to cloth with discolouration/toning, light bumping to lower corners

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Lot 39

Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester, first trade edition, first issue (with date on title page and single-page endpaper repeated four times), London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903. Publisher's dark green boards, 16mo, frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations. A very well-preserved example; contents very good, clean, bright; some light wear at gutters; binding very good with only slight discolouration at edges/spine, a few surface marks, very slight wear at extreme edges of spine; slight shel

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Tourtel, Mary. Rupert Little Bear's Adventures, Number Three, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Limited, [1925]. Quarto, publisher's grey paper boards with illustrated cover and spine, loosely inserted prospectus introducing Rupert and His Friends, dated 1925. Contents generally good and bright with pale spotting in places, most pronounced on edges of text-block and opening few leaves (including title); binding tight and square with slight wear to corners and extremities

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Tourtel, Mary. The Rupert Story Book, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Limited, [1938]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial boards, bearing neat gift inscription, Xmas 1939. Contents very good with light toning from age and very pale spots in places; the colouring-in plates have been lightly coloured; binding vibrant with slight wear to extremities and spine, slight loss to bottom of spine

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The Dandy Monster Comic, No. 1, the first ever Dandy Annual, London, Manchester and Dundee: D. C. Thomson & Co., Limited, [1939]. Publisher's glazed pictorial boards. Contents generally very good with toning from age and pale spots in places; boards vibrant with wear to corners and edges, general rubbing, a couple of small cracks to upper board, some splitting to joints with gauze showing in places; no owner inscription The first ever Dandy Annual

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Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. Octavo, publisher's salmon pink cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, neat owner and gift inscription on front free endpaper, Xmas 1928. Contents good, clean, bright, a few very light marks in places; general offsetting to endapers; some discolouration to cloth, corners bumped, slight wear to extremities

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Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers, neat contemporary gift inscription, Christmas 1926. Contents good, clean, bright; very slight wear to the extreme top edge of a couple of pages; binding tight and square, well-preserved, one small mark on upper board, faint cockling near centre of joint on lower board

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Lofting, Hugh. The Story of Dr Dolittle, first edition, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. Octavo, publisher's decorated orange cloth with central illustrated panel, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece with protective tissue-guard. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and square, cloth well-preserved and vibrant, slight discolouration and marks to spine in places, light wear to extremities

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Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced 18s net. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright, some very light toning and pale marks to edges of text-block; cloth well-preserved, corners bumped, jacket with some general discolouration and slight wear/loss to extremities, verso of jacket with some pale dampstaining

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Lot 47

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. Small quarto, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers neat gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper, Xmas 1910, complete with 24 colour plates (including frontispiece) with captioned tissue-guards, as called for. Contents with some pale spotting, some of the plates worn and detached but present; cloth with corners bumped, some discolouration/marks, som

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Lot 48

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. Octavo, publisher's deluxe roan binding lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated endpapers. Contents generally bright with occasional marks, some very light creasing, a few closed tears and loss to the corner of p.147/148 (just missing the text); binding with some shelf-lean, boards quite well-preserved with light rubbing/scuffs, spine with discolouration and wear/loss

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Bishton Hall, Staffordshire

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Collection of books to include The Adventures of Rupert, [1949]; More Rupert Adventures, [1951]; The Beano Book, [1956]; Lawson Wood's Merry Monkeys, no date; The Art of the Illustrator, [c.1920], six parts only, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults, in one carton

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her?, in two volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-65, illustrated with 40 plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and 20 woodcuts by the Dalziel Brothers, half-calf, bearing bookplates and owner inscriptions of Augusta Gertrude Knox Gore (2)

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm, in two volumes, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1862, illustrated with 39 engraved plates by J. E. Millais, half-calf, bearing bookseller's ticket on front pastedown for D. W. Carroll, Dublin (2)

Le Keux, J. Memorials of Cambridge, in two volumes, London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841, illustrated with engraved plates and woodcuts, worn calf. Together with Memorials of Oxford, in three volumes, 1837, uniform calf, gilt borders, worn at edges (5)

Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, with loosely-inserted newspaper clippings, 1935, plates, small quarto, tan buckram. Together with Austin Dobson: The Story of Rosina, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, London: Kegan Paul, 1895, and seven others (9)

Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management, in two volumes, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1889, illustrated with chromolithographic plates and woodcuts, Vol. II lacking title page, old repair neatly done, sold as found with all faults (2)

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, edited by E. Thorold Rogers, in two volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, full calf, Cheltenham College embossed to covers, prize label awarded to W. R. Lawrence, 1874, front board of Vol. II is loose (2)