Category: England

Album of 37 Oil Paintings and Watercolors of Primarily England [D.L. & A.C. Miller. June-July 1920]

Price: $800.00

Publisher: : 1920

Seller ID: 002605

Condition: Very Good

By various hands. The album bears the date of 1920 but the artwork presumably would probably have been collected over time, either before or after that date, or a bit of both. The name of Miller is on the front cover, but that is probably the name of the owner and compiler of the album and does not explain much beyond that. The quality is various, as is the style, with the unifying element that they are all relating to lovely scenery of the countryside, the small town, the seaside in the South of England, Yorkshire, perhaps elsewhere in England, and at least one or two from the Continent (F...
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Child's Sketchbook Depicting Mostly the Isle of Wight, Some Welsh Scenery, and Human Studies

Price: $850.00

Seller ID: 005820

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown on boards.

Condition: Very Good

Wonderful juvenile pencil sketches and watercolors with a strong Folk Art appeal to them overall. N.d., circa 1840. (Paper watermark of 1815, but possible portrait of young Victoria, and fashions on human subjects suggest the later date.) Oblong 4to. 25 by 31.5 cm. With 43 pages containing artwork, most of which, but not all, can be regarded as finished. Most of the artwork is rendered directly onto the pages of the album, with six of the pieces instead mounted onto the page. Nine of the pages are of watercolors, and two others, have some color pencil added to the basic pencil drawing. ...
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Companion to the Almanac, or Yearbook of General Information (16 volumes)

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Charles Knight

Seller ID: 001171

Binding: Quarter Calf

Condition: Near Fine

12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Continuous run of Knight's Companion to the Almanac from 1828 to 1858, with one index volume as well covering up to 1843. Chock-a-block with interesting information on virtually all aspects of economic, business and social affairs in Britain during reign of William IV up until the mid-Victorian era. While rich in statistical and demographic information, these volumes are much, much more, with articles that describe and analyze with rigor the issues and developments of the day. Many plates and illustrations of significant architectural and engineering projects...
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Deck of 35 hand-colored cards depicting English monarchs from William the Conqueror to William IV

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London (?),

Seller ID: 005078

Binding: Box

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1830s prior to 1837 when William IV passed away. N.p. Each card is 62 by 56 mm. The cards each contain six lines of text. Above the portrait the dynasty to which the monarch belonged is given. Below the portrait is the monarch's nme, and then his birth and death years, when his/her reign began and how many years he/she reigned, except for the card pertaining to William IV, who was still alive, and his card states, "Long Life and Happiness to Him, and prosperity to his people". The cards were surely meant as an educational tool for children. The cards come in a marbled...
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English Scenery. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons : 1891

Seller ID: 001457

Condition: Near Fine

8vo, 8 by 6 inches, 20 by 15 cm. Two chromolithographic postcard-sized images per plate, with fine views of the most memorable buildings, landmarks, natural wonders and views of England. Moderate foxing of preliminaries, otherwise generally clean, with all tissue guards intact. Re-cased with very attractive archtypal Victorian styled decorated morocco spine. Marbled boards.
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Happy Times Photo Album

Price: $60.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 003401

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1890s, with earlier photos included. (One photo dated 1882). 8vo. 21 by 15 cm. 24 card leaves, each with four slots, two per page, to house photos. Only 20 photos included (two are identical and loose), with most slots empty. Art Nouveau style design on cover. Photos are of quaint English farmhouse, farm yard (chickens), country lane, a park fountain, a coastal bluff, a butterfly hunter, a baby in a pram, a clipper ship, penguins at a zoo and an elephant ride, and a young woman in a black dress. Light wear.
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Smoking and Smokers; Also, Snuff and Snuff-Takers. With Numerous Wood Cuts

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, Joseph Baker : 1851

Seller ID: 001373

Binding: Blindstamped decorated cloth

Condition: Very Good

Essentially two books, closely related in topic and tone, in one. 90 and 90 pp. 8to, 8 by 4.5 inches, 20 by 12 cm. With numerous often droll woodcut illustrations of smokers in their various attitudes and conceits. The work(s) treat seemingly all aspects of their subject, including history, statistical data regarding, and then countless other looser associative matters of which the very act of smoking invites, for smoking, and now the mostly bygone practice of taking snuff, so much more to their acolytes than the simple consumption of the stuff. Thus there are chapters on reveries concern...
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The Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society. Lately Attributed in the Press to Charles Lamb. With an Introductory Note by Clement Shorter With Eight coloured plates and sixteen in monochrome

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, England by W. Lewis : 1924

Seller ID: 004370

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pastedown

Condition: Very Good Minus

1920s reprint of 1809 title on English heirarchy and aristocratic privileges and ritual published originally by Tabart & Co. 8vo. 17.5 by 11 cm. 136 pp. Wear on spine, with tears to paper pastedown and small chip of spine label. Some moderate loss to paper pastedown on board, and moderate soiling.
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The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong! Dedicated to the Holy Alliance.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, William Hone : 1821

Seller ID: 006724

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18 by 10.5 cm. 60 pp. Light to moderate soiling on first and last page. Diagonal flattened crease on last page. No binding. A few pages overcut, or cut slightly sloppily.
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Whimsical Victorian Album of Photos Incorporated into Watercolors

Price: $15,000.00

Publisher: England, : 1880

Seller ID: 007263

Binding: Cloth.

Condition: Very Good

Exceptional Victorian album of mostly humorous watercolors incorporating photos of the heads of people. Besides the utter charm of the eccentric artwork, the album is an extraordinary survey of the life and culture, mostly of the well-to-do English of the day, showing its subjects in a wide multitude of activities -- sports, other pastimes, traveling, in domestic and outside settings, etc. etc. Thus we are shown Victorians playing tennis, playing cricket, graduating from school, at a train station, at an art gallery, at church, at a social gathering, in courtship, crossing the Channel, at a ...
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[Photo Album] Souvenir 5th November 1920 The Willows Windsor

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Windsor, UK, : 1920

Seller ID: 003323

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A group of oversized photos that capture a somber yet celebratory occasion at a grand estate two years after the end of the First World War. Oblong, 27.5 by 38 cm. Twelve large original photographs of a grand country estate called "The Willows", taken when its owner was being honored for having turned it over to the British war effort. As depicted on Downton Abbey, many a palatial home served as a temporary hospital, a hospice, or some other use relating to the war effort. In this instance, the property owner was a man of Indian origin, Sir Dhunjobhoy Bomanji, who had made a fortu...
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[Prints] A pair of prints by T. Kay: Pension Hunter, 1793, and Demonstration or Cause & Effect,1817

Price: $300.00

Publisher: T. Kay : 1792 and 1817

Seller ID: 003160

Condition: Fine

The two prints are matted and framed similarly and thus work well as a pair of T. Kay satirical prints. They each measure 17.5 by 11 cm, and framed, 27 by 22 cm. Both are contained in the British Museum collection, which described the Pension Hunter as thus: A man wearing clerical bands with spurred top-boots stands directed to the right on an open Bible. His right hand is thrust in his waistcoat, his left holds close to his eyes an open book, 'Essay on the management of Bees'. Bees fly thickly above his head. The Bible is inscribed 'Revelation XIII And the World Wondered after the Beast.' ...
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The City Wonderful Being a Guide to London Social & Historic. The Hotel Cecil's Guide to London. Historical & Social Notes.

By: "Londiniensis"

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Hotel Cecil : 1924

Seller ID: 001085

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 80 + xxxiv pp. Stiff wrappers. Wonderful piece of London ephemera, capturing the swirl of London during the Roaring Twenties and also evocative illustrations, some in full color, of period dress and smart-looking people, together with many period photos of now a lost London. Equally enjoyable and informative are the 34 pages of advertisements in the back. Minor crease to front stiff wrapper. Half-title loose. Otherwise very good or better of rare momento.
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Shires & Provinces, [together with] More Shires & Provinces (Two volumes)

By: "Sabretache" [C. Barrow]. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London and New York, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited and Charles Scribner's Sons : 1926 and 1928

Seller ID: 002159

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Folio sized, measuring 14 by 10 inches, 35 by 26 cm. Each volume with sixteen color plates. "Sabretache" was a pseudonym adopted by the publicity-allergic C. Barrow, who served many years in the cavalry stationed in India and returning to England, was an ardent foxhunter. The two Shire volumes, which cover the history and lore of the most famous English hunts, constitute his best known works. Grimshaw 1288 and 1289. Both volumes are clean and tight internally, with the original clean cloth showing wear, with scuffs and the green rubbed out in spots.
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History of the Free-School of Harrow

By: Ackermann, Rudolph

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, R. Ackermann : 1816

Seller ID: 003135

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Folio-sized. 34 by 28 cm. 40 pp. FIve hand-colored plates. Clean within, other than offsetting. Spotting on cloth boards.
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The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the School of St. Paul?s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ?s Hospital

By: Ackermann, Rudolph

Price: $5,750.00

Publisher: London, R. Ackermann : 1816

Seller ID: 007164

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good Plus

Large Paper Edition, one of 50 such copies produced. Large 4to, Folio-dimensioned. 41.5 by 34 cm. 48 hand-colored aquatint plates, 44 of which are views, four, costume. Pagination is separate for each of the schools: vi (including list of subscribers), [2], 56, 72, 27, [1], 32, 34, 22, 40, 34, 43 pp. The greatest number of plates are devoted to Eton and Winchester, which get ten each, with the other schools genreally receiving five each. The plates capture the architectural glory of these institutions, as well as the romance that had already gathered around them, with nary an acknowledg...
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The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the School of St. Paul’s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ’s Hospital

By: Ackermann, Rudolph

Price: $3,750.00

Publisher: London, R. Ackermann : 1816

Seller ID: 003773

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Folio-sized. 34.5 by 28 cm. 48 hand-colored plates, 44 of which are views, four, costume. Pagination is separate for each of the schools: vi (including list of subscribers), 56, 72, 40, 32, 43, 34, 34, 27, 22, [1] pp. The greatest number of plates are devoted to Eton and Winchester, which get ten each, with the other schools genreally receiving five each. The plates capture the architectural glory of these institutions, as well as the romance that had already gathered around them, with nary an acknowledgment of the underside of their strict and spartan regime. Scattered foxing, heavy at...
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A Touch at the Fine Arts Illustrated by Twelve Plates, With Descriptions, by Henry Alken

By: Alken, Henry

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: London, Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit and Humour : 1824

Seller ID: 002354

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

A humorous take on the argot of art criticism. 8vo. With 12 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontis, which is described as Plate V. The apercus of Alken, as he applies phrases others must have used to describe, praise and pan his own efforts, are singular in not being susceptible to easy description. However, he succeeds ably in capturing the pretentious tone of the critic in his elaboration of phrases such as "an imposing effect", "a sudden effect", "a warm effect". For most, the magic and fun is in the illustrations, in which he attempts to give literal a...
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Scraps from The Sketch Book of Henry Alken, Engraved by Himself, Containing Forty-Two Plates

By: Alken, Henry

Price: $2,650.00

Publisher: London, Thomas M'Lean : 1821

Seller ID: 006108

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 27 by 22 cm. Scarce sporting plate book with 42 engraved and etched plates with rich, deep contemporary hand-coloring. Plates of equestrian, foxhunting, horse-racing, shooting, coaching and canine interest. Also featured are depictions of cockfighting, military uniform (cavalry) and then, curiously, some Middle Eastern costume and scenes (sickle combat, etc.). Plates are dated 1820. Schwerdt 1: 21. No reference in Tooley or Abbey. Original title label pasted onto front blank. Condition: light rubbing along joints, corners. Small corner bump. Still handsome full red morocco bindi...
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Symptoms of Being Amused Vol. 1 [all that was published]

By: Alken, Henry

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit and Humour : 1822

Seller ID: 001490

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

Oblong, 14 by 9.5", 34 by 24.5 cm. With 42 comical Alken hand-colored plates, including the title page, all watermarked 1822 Thomas McLean. Tooley 57. Each plate contains several designs and accompanying captions. The format produces a liveliness on the page and contributes to the inimitable sense of movement so integral to Alken's art. With also an one page preface. Being Alken, many of the illustrations are of equine and/or sporting interest. The lampooning is highly visual. Sympathetically rebacked with half red morocco over marbled boards. The binding does have some shelfwear ...
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Category: England