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212.milton, John. Paradise lost. John Sharpe, 1821. £998
8vo (2 volumes). Full blue calf gilt, boards with centrally blocked cathedral enclosed in zigzag blind fillets and floral roll-tooled borders, spines gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering pieces in 2 and lettered directly in gilt at foot, others with gilt floral designs, gilt roll- tooled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, blue silk markers; engraved portrait frontispieces and additional engraved titles for the nine Books; slight rubbing to boards and a little offsetting from engravings but a very attractive set; provenance: leslie Dickson, 1863 (pen gift inscription on front free endpaper).
cathedral binding was a retrospective style inspired by church gothic which was popular from 1810-1840 in england and France. the style was commonly used for prayer books and bibles and the use of blind blocking makes the impression interesting to both sight and touch, which would not be the case were the blocking done in gilt. the cathedral used bears a similarity to York Minster’s west end.
213. minton, John (illustrator). odo Cross (author). the snail that climbed the eiffel tower and other stories. London; John Lehmann. 1947.
£598
royal 8vo. original light blue cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine panelled in black and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, preserved in original dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-86; with 8 coloured plates printed in russet and blue alongside vignettes in black and white; a fine and exceptional copy with only a few tiny speckles to fore-edge of book block; the price-clipped dustwrapper also in near pristine condition with a little foxing to upper flap, mild rubbing to spine extremities and a few tiny nicks to head; very scarce in this condition.
First edition.
214. KinG, Jessie m. (illustrator). William morris (author). the Defence of guenevere. London, John Lane. The Bodley Head. 1904.
£298
8vo. original dark red cloth elaborately gilt to spine and both boards, top edge gilt, edges uncut; pp. [ix], 10-310; pictorial title-page, decorated half- title, other decorations to prelims and chapter-headings and tail-pieces throughout alongside 24 fine black and white plates on coated paper; spine a little sun-lightened and somewhat dust-soiled with a touch of bruising to head (with one tiny 1mm nick) and one 7mm closed split to cloth tail, joints lightly rubbed, one slim and small ink mark to fore-edge of upper board; internally very good with some heavy offset marking to lower endpapers from a loosely inserted newspaper clipping; otherwise very good and clean throughout with mild toning to text pages (as usual) and one patch of offsetting from a newspaper clipping affecting a text page; all the plates in fine state bar one, with a very slight ripple to upper edge.
First edition of this interpretation of the tales of King arthur and the Knights of the round table, by the highly collected Glasgow School artist Jessie M. King. one of her most popular and profusely illustrated works, which borrows from the Japanese in style, with romantic ladies draped in fan-shaped flowing drapery.
216.mUrdoCH, iris. the Bell. Chatto & Windus. 1958. £398
8vo. original green cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. Wrapper with a little toning to spine, a little rubbing, and with a few very small chips and tears, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition signed by Murdoch on the title-page.
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215. [moVaBle]. “Figure it out”; the coronation of edward Vii. New York; Isaac H. Blanchard Co. [1902].
£228
commemorative souvenir marking the coronation of edward Vii; original purple card pocket envelope elaborately decorated in gilt with the royal crest, featuring a die-cut window behind which an engraved portrait of the King in civilian dress miraculously, and really rather ingeniously, transforms to show him in coronation robes when a tab is pulled, with the accompanying moving exhortation “Figure it out”; preserved in excellent working condition, with a little light dusting and rubbing.
sole edition. a very clever invention, patented in great Britain. (We still haven’t figured it out!).
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