JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST
COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JESSIE M. KING AND FAMILY
£1,008
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
including: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, c.1880. 12mo, ownership inscription ‘Jessie M. King, The Manse, New Kilpatrick’ to initial blank, half-title annotated ‘John Liddel’s Bible' in the same hand, further inscription ‘from my mother’ to the front free endpaper, lacking rear cover and apparently several leaves of text at rear;
Greenaway, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book, c.1920. 16mo, original cloth, inscribed ‘To Merle from Angus’ within hand-drawn decorative border on front free endpaper, with manuscript entries throughout, including for ‘Mrs E. A. Taylor’, i.e. Jessie M. King, next to her birthday of 20 March; Le Nouveau Testament. Strasbourg 1878, ownership inscription ‘Peggy King, The Manse, New Kilpatrick, April 1898’ to initial blank; The Letters of Charles Lamb. London: J.M. Dent & Co., with gif inscription 'To Mrs Taylor “A trifling memory of a true kindness” G.J.J. July 1917; Sappho. One Hundred Lyrics. London: Alexander Moring Limited, 1906. Small 8vo. contemporary green roan, gift inscription ‘To E.A.T. Xmas ’06'; and 22 others similar, from the library of Merle Taylor, several with family inscriptions, mainly leather-bound.
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Provenance
Provenance: Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald Taylor
By descent to their daughter Merle Taylor
Estate of Merle Taylor