Lot 31
Field sports, literature, fine bindings
Collection of works, early 20th century
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78
Description
[Field sports]. British Hunts and Huntsmen. London: published by the Biographical Press, 1908-11. First edition, 4 volumes, folio (36.7 x 26.5cm), original half red morocco, raised bands with gilt lettering in two compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, profusely illustrated with 244 photogravure plates, half-tone illustrations and plates, maps, boards sunned with light staining, occasional minor spotting to text, some bolts in volume 3 unopened and with a few torn pages, but otherwise a very clean copy;
Ibid. The Royal Caledonian Hunt: Instituted 1777. Edinburgh: [Royal Caledonian Hunt], 1937. 4to, half green leather on red cloth, all edges gilt, 12 plates (1 colour), interleaved with tissue guards (printed captions on recto), text with ruled margins in red ink;
Williams, H. Noel. Madame Récamier and her Friends. London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First edition, one of 600 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth, plates, together with 4 similar works by the author;
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron … Faithfully Translated by J. M. Rigg. London: privately printed [for the Navarre Society], [1920?]. 'Edition de luxe’ of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original green moiré cloth with gilt fleur-de-lis on front boards, title pages in red and black, 15 photogravure plates after illustrations by Louis Chalon, with tissue guards, light staining to spines, endpapers discoloured;
Keats, John. The Poetical Works. London: George Bell and Sons, 1899. 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco for Bumpus, spine gilt in compartments including red morocco floral onlays, all edges gilt, spine sunned;
Herrick, Robert. The Poetical Works. George Bell & Sons, 1893. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary orange crushed half morocco by Riviere and Son, spines gilt in compartments including large gilt and onlaid green morocco dots;
Lamb, Charles. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1893. One of 150 copies on large paper with extra illustrations, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red crushed half morocco for William Brown of Edinburgh, Art Nouveau decoration gilt to spines, photogravure plates on India paper, mounted;
and 9 others similar (35)