Macmillan and Co. London. 1892. (Third edition) Octavo. 158pp. Tissue guarded engraved frontispiece, further illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original pictorial cloth, gilt to spine and upper boards. All edges gilt. Green endpapers. Some sporadic foxing, otherwise crisp and bright. Light rubbing to extremities, spotting to lower board.
Two volumes. Octavo. Macmillan and Co. London. 1901. xvii, 427pp; xi, 467pp. 71 engraved plates, (1 folding) 3 text engravings. Half blue grained morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and rules. Title pages in red and black. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Light spotting to frontispieces. Spines sunned. A handsome crisp set.
Octavo. Frederick Warne and Co. London. nd. (c.1900) xxiii, 520pp. 18 engraved plates. Later half red grained morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering. All edges gilt, corners rounded. Light toning and spotting to frontispiece portrait. Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) English cleric, a novelist and a humorous poet.
"Happy Christmas to you and have a good time" 11.5 x 16.5 cm (26 x 18 cm mounted). Original etching, signed by the artist. Further signature to inner mount. The etching illustrates two chefs preparing food. Fritz Gross (1895 -1969) Architect and artist, the instigator of open plan design, born in Brelitz, an Austrian Jew who fled to England with his family in 1938 at the invitation of the President of the Royal Institution of British Architects. The Fritz Gross collection is housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey. Evreux. La Librairie Illustrée. Paris. [1888] Quarto. xii, 690pp. (1) Imprim. 8 tissue guarded coloured plates, numerous engraved full page illustrations and text engravings. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards. Spine in six compartments, gilt lettering, motifs and rules. Marbled endpapers. Some toning to half-title and last few pages. Slight shelfwear to edges and corners. John Grand-Carteret (1850-1927) Art historian and collector.A heavy item, this will probably incur some extra postage charge.
Daily Express. London. [1945] Oblong octavo. (143)pp. Original paper covers, chipped, torn, worn, marked and faded. Sidney Conrad Strube (1892-1956) The highest paid and most popular inter-war cartoonist, he expressed the voice of the people through the 'Little Man'.
London Express Newspapers Ltd. 1930. Oblong octavo. (80)pp. Original paper covers, worn, marked and faded. Three pages (Imperial Room, A Hard Case, Gaspidistras) have been partially coloured by an amateur hand. Closed tear to 'The week end toll'/'The Russian Propaghandi'. Sidney Conrad Strube (1892-1956) The highest paid and most popular inter-war cartoonist, he expressed the voice of the people through the 'Little Man'.
John Warren. London. 1820. First edition. 12mo. viii, 137pp. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed to extremities. Endpapers and title page toned. Signature of Thos. Yarde to fep. "If it were necessary for me, and I rejoice that it is not, to account for the way in which the following Letters came into my possession. I think I could as satisfactorily acquit myself…I have merely availed myself of an opportunity…I shall only observe, that when the packet, which contained the letters in question, came into my hands, it was not padlocked…If a few secrets should escape, or a few uneasy thoughts spring out like the plagues from Pandora's box…no sting may for a moment, wound an honest bosom" A curiosity: a "passing smile at folly".
Seventeenth Edition. Embellished with a Characteristic Frontispiece. John Joseph Stockdale. London. 1807. Octavo. xxiv, 152pp. Rowlandson engraved frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Toning to title and frontis. Provenance: From the library at Clifford Priory (now demolished) Bookplate of B. Haigh Allen to fep. Signature of Bn. Haigh to title. Mentioned frequently in Kilvert's Diary, the Haigh-Allens of Clifford Priory were central to the social scene of the Welsh Marches. The strawberries of Clifford Priory the sweetest ever. His two daughters, Mary Lucy and Emily Kate are mentioned frequently by Kilvert in his Diary. Benjamin Haigh Allen was a personal friend of William Wilberforce and campaigner for abolition. Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820) poet, satirist. 'All the talents' is a political satire of the Whig administration, and the origin of that name. First published in three parts, the later 'editions' were augmented by further dialogues. This is the first edition of the complete work.
The Cresset Press. London. [1938] Oblong quarto. (3), 157, (2)pp. Original paper covered boards with cloth spine, sunned, rubbed and worn to edges and extremities. Vestiges of tape to front pastedown. Bookplate dated 1938 to ffep. Historic price (£20) from December 1999 to ffep. Edges tanned. Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (1891-1963) Political cartoonist and caricaturist.
Vol. I. William Hogarth. From the original pictures in the Shakespeare Gallery. Pub. June 1, 1791 by J & J Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall; Vol. II. Nature. Published June 1, 1791, By J & J Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London; Vol. III and last. Variety. A supplement to Hogarth Illustrated; compiled from his own manuscripts, in the possession of John Ireland. Published March 1798, for John Ireland, No. 3, Poets Corner, Palace Yard, Westminster; Mr Nicol, Pall Mall; and Messrs Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, and Cheapside. First editions of all 3 vols. Royal 8vo. cxxii, 311pp. Engraved frontis. (short marginal closed tear, no loss), engraved title, 51 further plates, tailpiece vignette; (2), 311-607, (3 adverts.)pp.; Engraved frontis., engraved title, 35 further plates, tailpiece vignette; xxiii, (1), 377, (2)pp.; Engraved frontis., engraved title, title, vignette introduction, Kendal Arms vignette, tailpieces: [III], [VII], [XIX], [XLIV], 39 further plates. Collated complete. Later half calf, marbled boards, spines in seven compartments with gilt rules and motifs. Minor shelf wear. All edges red. A couple of plates closely cropped. Some foxing to plates. Marginal tear to I, xlix, no loss. From the library of Denis Gray, with his bookplates to ffep's. A handsome set. ESTC T2314; T2313 His custom to collect and conserve led Ireland to publish the first scholarly studies of William Hogarth whom he had long admired. Ireland purchased prints, plates, and manuscripts of Hogarth, publishing Hogarth Illustrated (2 vols., 1791) and, subsequently, a biography - the standard for many years - based on Hogarth's manuscripts and autobiographical notes, entitled A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated (1798). In his proposal for the supplement (dated 7 July 1796), Ireland made clear there was no connection between himself and Samuel Ireland, author of Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth. ODNB.
John Murray. London. 1943. First edition. Small octavo. 64pp. Original yellow cloth (spine darkened) in slightly foxed and chipped original dust wrapper. Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) Cartoonist and author.
First edition. Small quarto. 258pp. 100 illustrations. Original cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In original dust wrapper, slightly sunned, with short closed tear to top edge.
This Edition De Luxe is published by the kind permission of the Proprietors of the "Evening Times". nd. [1903] Quarto. 26 plates, mounted on card, each tissue guarded with descriptive legend. Whilst the card mounts show foxing, the mounted plates are unaffected. Original green cloth, red lettering and gold-tooled heraldic motifs, soiled and rubbed with wear to extremities. Hinges cracked. Signed by the artist. John McLure Hamilton (1853-1936) Anglo-American artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist; he was the official portrait painter to Gladstone.
Faber & Faber. London. nd. [1946] First edition. Small quarto. (1), (bl.), (58)pp. Original cream cloth, blue lettering to spine, and decorative pictorial upper board. Sunned to covers and faded to spine. Occasional light spotting. Frederick Rowland Emett (1906-1990) English cartoonist "Emett of Punch", designer, inventor.
