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274. sPeedy, tom. natural history of sport in scotland with rod and gun. William Blackwood and Sons. 1920.
£148
royal 8vo. original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine with gilt vignette on upper cover; pp. xxviii + 440, portrait frontispiece and numerous other illustrations by J.g. Millais; a little bumped at extremities, very good.
First edition.
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275. sPenser, edmund. the Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelue Bookes Fashioning Xii. Morall Vertues. Ashendene Press. 1923.
£3,500
Folio, original brown leather backed vellum boards, lettered in gilt on spine. text printed in red blue and black, with initials in red and blue. a little occasional spotting, otherwise a very good copy.
limited edition of 180 numbered copies printed on paper. an additional 10 were printed on vellum. the ashendene spenser was printed in two columns of subiaco type on the largest Batchelor paper made at the time, with a new “knight in armour” watermark. the book took almost two years of the Press’ time, from January 1922 to november 1923. sydney cockerell commented that the book was better off without illustrations, emphasising its typographical excellence. (ashendene Bibliography XXXii; Franklin pp. 103, 143-144).
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276. st. JoHn HoPe, W.H. Windsor castle. an architectural history. Country Life, 1913.
£450
small folio. two volumes and one portfolio of 8 large, folding, coloured plans; Publisher’s buckram backed cloth, gilt; xx + 371pp.; x +373- 639pp.; 122 plates throughout, many in colour, including 2 frontispieces.
First edition. remains one of the most valuable and complete architectural histories of the castle complex.
277. st. JoHn, Charles. Wild sports & natural history of the highlands. London & Edinburgh. T.N. Foulis. 1919.
£150
royal 8vo. original sand-coloured cloth, black lettering to front and spine; pp. xxx + 472 + [4, ads.], 50 illustrations, 30 in colour from pictures by g. Denholm armour and edwin alexander; previous owner’s signature to front pastedown, bumping to extremities, some browning to edges, otherwise very good.
First edition thus. this is a comprehensive account of the wildlife of the highlands, seen from the perspective of the Morayshire estate-owner charles st. John (1809 - 1856), and including detailed chapters on fishing, hunting and shooting as well as on the habits of the animals themselves.
278. stein, Gertrude. Wars i have seen. B.T. Batsford. 1945. £148
8vo. original blue cloth; with 4 photographs by cecil Beaton; slight fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy in dust-jacket designed by cecil Beaton, this just a trifle chipped at top of spine.
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