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38.CAMPION, Thomas. Works. edited by percival vivian.Oxford: Clarendon Press.1967.
£48
8vo. original blue cloth, with price-clipped dust-jacket; spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very nice copy.
reprint of the scholarly oxford edition.
39.CAMUS, Albert. the fall. Kentfield CA: Allen Press. 1966. £398 folio, original paper covered boards with slightly chipped acetate wrapper. With six illustrations, decorative title and paragraph decorations by lewis Allen. A near fine copy.
limited edition of 140 copies.
40. CAVENDISH, George. the life and death of thomas Wolsey the great cardinal of england. Chipping Campden. 1930.
£148
crown 4to. original maroon buckram, blocked in gilt, gilt edges; decorative initial letters and head- and tail-pieces, title printed in red and black;a fine copy.
one of 325 numbered copies. handsomely printed by h.p.r finberg at the Alcuin press.
the Alcuin press was founded in 1928 by herbert patrick reginald finberg (1900-1974), a former employee at the shakespeare head press. the press was housed in a malt house behind elm tree house, high street, chipping campden, gloucestershire. using modern machinery, finberg produced fine books in small editions using hand-set types on hand-made paper.
41. CHADWICK, Owen. the victorian church. Adam and Charles Black. 1970-1971.
£98
8vo., 2 volumes in original cloth with dust wrappers. A fine set. third, thoroughly revised, edition of volume 1, first edition of volume 2.
the dedicAtion copy inscribed to his mother
42. CHANSLOR, Roy. the ballad of cat ballou. Boston. Little Brown and Company. 1956.
£998
8vo., original brown cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper worn with some chips and tears, some old tape repairs and soiling.
first edition, the dedication copy inscribed by chanslor to his mother “this is for my dear mother to whom the book is dedicated, from your loving son roy. march 11 1956”.
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43. CHARNAY, Désiré. les anciennes villes du nouveau monde. voyages d’explorations au mexique et dans l’Amérique centrale 1857-1882. Paris: Corbeil for Librairie Hachette, 1885.
£250
4to (358 x 279mm). contemporary half crushed green morocco gilt over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one and dated at the foot, top edge gilt, others cut, marbled endpapers, fabric marker; pp. Xii, 469, [1 (blank)], [2 (errata, verso blank)]; title printed in red and black with wood-engraved vignette, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece by e. ronjat, 45 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations, plans, and diagrams in the text, and head- and tailpieces; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, marker torn with loss, lacking the double-page ‘carte des migrations toltèques’, nonetheless a very good copy.
First French edition. An account of his important explorations in mexico and central America by charnay (1828-1915). born and educated in france, charnay travelled in england and germany, before moving to the united states in 1850 and taking up a teaching position in new orleans. influenced by John lloyd stephens and frederick catherwood’s Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (1841), charnay undertook his first expedition to mexico in 1858 with the support of the french government, travelling for more than two years photographing and recording the ancient artefacts. he then returned to mexico in 1880, leading a franco-American expedition, which was supported by the french ministry of education and the wealthy french-American tobacco merchant pierre lorillard. this expedition travelled widely through mexico and was perhaps most important for its excavation of tula, and the extensive use of photography to record the artefacts discovered. on his return, charnay published his findings in journals, before then extending them for publication in book-form in both french (as here) and english as The Ancient Cities of the New World (new york: 1887); the large majority of the illustrations are wood-engravings after the expedition’s photographs.
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