Lot 139
£882
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
A Frutefull Pleasaunt, and Wittie Worke, of the Best State of a Publique Weale, and the Newe Yle, called Utopia ... by ... Syr Thomas More, 1929. One of 500 copies, this copy signed by the printer Robert Gibbings, 4to, original blue-green cloth, wood-engraved ornaments by Eric Gill, spine sunned [Chanticleer 65; Evan Gill 336];
The Phaedo of Plato. Translated into English by William [sic] Jowett, 1930. One of 500 copies, 4to, original blue-green cloth, wood-engraved ornaments by Eric Gill printed in red, retaining the rare original title-page with translator's name uncorrected to Benjamin Jowett, related publisher's notice ('In order to rectify this mistake a new title page is being printed worthwith ...') laid in, spine sunned [Chanticleer 69; Evan Gill 343];
The Lives of Gallant Ladies, by Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur and Abbot of Brantome ... With Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, privately printed for subscribers only, 1924. One of 625 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter cloth, signed by Gibbings on the title-page of volume 1, spotting to endpapers, limitation slip discarded [Chanticleer 18];
Pasiphae. A Poem by A. C. Swinburne, 1950. One of 500 copies, this copy signed by the illustrator, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, engraved plates by John Buckland-Wright;
The Ninety-First Psalm. With Wood-Engravings by Dorothea Braby, 1944. One of 350 copies, 4to, original cream cloth, bookplate of Maurice Buxton Forman (1872-1957), literary editor and forger;
A Journey from this World to the Next, by Henry Fielding, 1930. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original buff cloth, 6 engraved plates by Denis Tegetmeier [Chanticleer 73];
Grimms' Other Tales. A New Selection by Wilhelm Hansen, 1956. One of 500 copies, original purple cloth;
The Will to Function. A Philosophical Study by Charles Meek, printed at the Golden cockerel Press for the author, and published by him at the Mansion House, Bisley, Glos, 1929. One of 300 copies, 8vo, original red cloth, inscribed by the author on the initial blank;
The Tenbury Letters, 1942. One of 300 copies, 8vo, original red cloth;
Microcosmographie or a Piece of the World Discovered in Essayes and Characters by John Earle, 1928. One of 400 copies, 4to, original red cloth;
The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens and seven posthumous illustrations by Hugh Thomson, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1933. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original yellow cloth, 6 colour plates;
Pertelote. A Sequel to Chanticleer, 1943. 8vo, original cloth
Provenance: Property of an English collector.