Lot 144
Bindings
Fine bindings and library sets
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Spectator. The Spectator. New Edition, carefully corrected … to which are prefixed, the Lives of the Authors. London: for J. Bumpus, 1819. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt;
Greville, Charles C. F. The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. King William IV. and Queen Victoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half vellum by Bickers & Son, gilt arms of the Earls of Airlie to front covers, inscribed ‘Patrick Ogilvy from his loving grandmother Blanche Airlie, March 2nd 1914’ on volume 1 initial blank, book-labels of Blanche Airlie, Countess of Airlie to front pastedowns;
Freer, Martha Walker. [Complete set of her biographies of French monarchs:] The Life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, 1854, 2 volumes; The Life of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, 1855, 2 volumes; Elizabeth de Valois, 1857, 2 volumes; Henry III, King of France and Poland, 1858, 3 volumes; History of the Reign of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, 1860-3, 3 parts each in 2 volumes; The Married Life of Anne of Austria, 1864, 2 volumes; The Regency of Anne of Austria, 1866. First editions, 7 works in 19 volumes, 8vo (various dimensions), uniformly bound c.1900 for Hatchards in straight-grain green morocco, gilt spines, top edges gilt;
Connoisseur. The Connoisseur. An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. London: Otto Limited, 1901-15. 42 volumes (of 48: lacking volumes 15, 16, 23, 41, 45, 47), large 4to, contemporary blue crushed half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, top edges gilt, halftone photographic illustrations throughout the text, plates (many in colour, tipped to mounts);
and 3 other library sets (124)
Provenance
Property from the Earls of Airlie.