Lot 225
Bindings
Collection of works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Frank Smythson Ltd. [Miniature reference library, titled on spines:] Proverbs and Maxims, Mythology; Italian & English Dictionary; Atlas; French & English Dictionary; English Dictionary. 5 volumes, 16mo and 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt edges, in original case, some rubbing and discolouration to leather;
['Malachite-ware' bindings]. The White Doe of Rylstone ... by William Wordsworth. London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. [And:] The Seasons, and the Castle of Indolence. By James Thomson. London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1864. 2 works, 4to and 8vo, both in contemporary malachite-effect lacquered papier-mâché boards, fronts board decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, front board lettered green roan backstrips, Wordsworth with wood-engraved vignettes throughout, Thomson with 4 steel-engraved plates, both with contemporary gift or prize inscriptions to endpapers, occasional spotting, Thomson front joint cracked;
[Royal College, Mauritius prize bindings]. Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, London: Strahan and Co., 1869; Homer, The Iliad [and:] The Odyssey, by the Rev. W. Lucas Collins, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870 & 1871. 3 works, 8vo, contemporary blue calf, arms of the Royal College, Mauritius, gilt to front covers, prize-inscriptions to initial blanks, bindings slightly marked;
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Virginibus Puerisque; Memories and Portraits. London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. 3 works, 8vo, contemporary blue crushed half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, spines sunned and slightly rubbed;
Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas; The Five Nations; Barrack-Room Ballads. London: Methuen and Co. 1897, 1903, 1907. 3 works, 8vo, contemporary red or blue half calf, gift inscriptions, Barrack-Room Ballads spine sunned;
Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology .. A New Edition, revised and greatly enlarged. London: Bell & Daldy, 1873. 8vo, contemporary blue half gilt, etched frontispiece, contemporary ownership inscription and spotting to title-page, bookplate;
Gordon, W. J. Our Country's Butterflies and Moths and How to Know Them. London: Simpkin [and others], c.1900. 8vo, contemporary calf by Relfe Brothers, gilt spine, 33 chromolithographic plates, prize inscription;
and 7 others, finely bound, including Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Charlotte Brontë, Villette