Lot 32
Scottish monastic binding
Memoirs of Missionary Priests and Other Catholics of Both Sexes
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78
Description
that have suffered Death in England on Religious Accounts from the Year 1577 to 1684. By Bishop Challoner. Melbourne: McGready, Thomson, & Niven, 1878. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, 20th-century red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, illuminated presentation leaf on vellum bound in at front ('This book was bound by a monk of St Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire … The illuminated frontispiece was executed at Tyburn Convent London … 1957'), 20 tinted lithographic plates, half-title and final 2 leaves of index tipped to vellum guards;
Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Signed limited edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the artist, 4to, original vellum gilt, 22 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, top edges gilt, other untrimmed, lacking tie;
Haggard, Rider H. A Farmer's Year. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original boards, 2 maps, 36 photographic plates (3)