Antiquarian literature
Collection of works, mostly 19th century and leather-bound
Estimate: £200 - £300
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Via Sua, London: Longman [etc.], 1864 (first edition, contemporary black half roan, front joint splitting at foot); William Motherwell, Poems Narrative and Lyrical, Glasgow: David Robertson, 1832 (first edition, contemporary half calf, spine decorated in gilt); [Walter Savage Landor], The Pentameron and Pentalogia, London: Saunders and Otley, 1837 (contemporary half calf, errata slip, binding rubbed); William Borthwick, An Inquiry into the Origin and Limitations of the Feudal Dignities of Scotland [bound with:] Remarks on British Antiquities, Edinburgh: William Gordon, 1775-6 (2 works in 1 volume, first editions, c.1900 cloth, bookplates of the Library of the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries of Glasgow); Rosamund Marriott Watson, After Sunset, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904 (first edition, original cloth); W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden or the British Agent, London: William Heinemann, 1928 (first edition, original cloth, marked and worn); Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems, London: Oxford University Press, 1930 (second edition, original cloth, spine faded, headcap worn); John Howard Hinton, Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary in Jamaica, 1847 (first edition, original cloth, half-title, engraved vignette to title-page, without portrait); and approx. 45 others including literature and theology, several in prize bindings (52)