Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —_—_—_—_— — BOWES & BOWES, 1, Meanie STREET, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. 23 PART II. Pe NOP BE) 18 “MOSTLY FROM MODERN PRESSES WITH A SELECTION. OF FIRST EDITIONS. 204 Alcuin Press. The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey the Great Cardinal of England, by George Cavendish. Printed from his original MS. now in the British Museum. Head and tatl-pieces and initial letters by Paul Wood- voffe, 4to., buckram, g. e. Chipping Campden, Glos., 1930 £4 As. Only 325 numbered copies printed. 205 Arabian Nights. Translated by Edward Forster. 2nd edition, with engrav- ings from pictures by Robert Smirke, 5 vols., 8vo., calf. 1800 £4/10/- A sound set. 206 Arnold, Matthew. New Poems. First EpDITION, fcap. 8vo., cloth. 1867 , 12/6 207 Ashendene Press. SPENSER, Edmund. Minor Poems. Containing The Shepheardes Calender; Complaints; Daphnaida; Colin Clout’s Come Home Again; Amoretti; Hymnes; Epithalamion ; Prothalamion ; Sonnets and sundrie other Verses. Folio, antique vellum on oak boards, morocco back. *1925 foo pel - Only 200 copies printed in black, blue and red on handmade paper. 208 Assisi. Impressions of Half a Century. By Sir Wm. B. Richmond. With 38 plates in colour from original paintings by the Author, 4to., boards, canvas back, with silk ties. 1919 12/6 209 Beardsley, Aubrey. Last Letters. With an introduction and note by John Gray. Cr. 8vo., decorated cloth. 1904 10/6 210 Beardsley, Aubrey. By Robert Ross. With 16 illustrations from originals by Beardsley; and a revised iconography by Aymer Vallance. Cr. 8vo., cloth. 1909 12/6 From the library of Pickford Waller with his bookplate, two letters from Aymer Vallance and the original wrapper are inserted. 211 Beardsley. The Bookplates of Aubrey Beardsley. By Georges Derry. With 4 plates, 8vo., pressed levant mor., with border of 3 lines along sides, 2-line fillet round edges of sides, and fillet of 4 lines on inside borders, decorations at corners, panelled back with raised bands, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. 1919 £10/10/- A unique copy from the library of Pickford Waller, which has 16 original Beardsley bookplates inserted, 10 of them printed on vellum. They include the rare bookplate of Olive Custance, afterwards Lady Alfred Douglas, the fine bookplate of John Henry Ashworth in 3 states including the very scarce first state of which only 25 were printed, the bookplate of H. F. W. Manners-Sutton, afterwards Lord Canterbury, the others of :— J. Lumsden Propert, J. A. Hammerton, F. H. Evans, Rainforth A. Walker, A. Crowley, G. Kelly, Mr. Pollitt, and F. W. Van Zandt. . 212 Beardsley. Burpertt, Osbert. The Beardsley Period. An essay in per- spective. Cr. 8vo., cloth. 1925 8/6 From the library of Pickford Waller, with his bookplate, the original wrapper 4s bound in.
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