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51. CARROLL, W. The Angler’s Vade Mecum, containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, their Seasons, and the Kind of Weather that Brings them Most on the Water … to which is added, a Description of the Different Baits Used in Angling, and where Found. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable. 1818.


£900


8vo. Sometime rebound in half brown morocco, marbled boards, spine with gilt rules and centre tools and black moocco label with gilt lettering, original endpaper with inscription preserved; pp. viii + 128; 12 hand- coloured engraved plates of flies; some foxing to plates, a very good copy of this scarce volume.Provenance: ownership inscription of William Yarrell to front pastedown, with each fly individually numbered by him to the plates and manuscript notes to blanks inserted opposite each plate. William Yarrell (1784 - 1856) is best known for his History of British Birds (1843) but also produced a very well-received History of British Fishes in 1835-6. A man of means after taking over his father’s bookselling business, “Yarrell used his leisure to become one of the best shots of his time and an enthusiastic angler” (DNB), and his notes show how seriously he took his sport.


First edition. The plates illustrate 194 examples of flies, arranged under the months May to September, and coloured by hand.


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‘THE EXTRAORDINARY RAPIDITYWITH WHICH THIS LATEST PRODUCT OF THE RESPLENDENT LANKA HAS GAINED


UNIVERSAL FAVOUR IS, OF COURSE, DUE TO IS SUPERIORITY OVER THE PEKOES AND SOUCHONGS OF OTHER COUNTRIES’


52. CAVE, Henry William. Golden Tips. A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry. London: Cassell & Company, Limited for Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1900.


£250


8vo (214 x 139mm). Original white buckram over bevelled boards, dense all-over gilt design of foliage, spine lettered in gilt in 2 panels, all edges gilt, olive-green endpapers; pp. xii, 474, [2 (publisher’s advertisement, imprint on verso)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece retaining tissue guard, map of ‘Ceylon Showing Proportion of Country under Tea Cultivation’, hand-coloured in green, 75 half-tone plates, 22 with illustrations recto- and-verso, and illustrations in the text, some full-page, the majority after photographs by the author, decorative initials; cloth a little rubbed and dulled on spine and outer parts of boards, corners lightly bumped, slight cracking on hinges and spotting on free endpapers, nonetheless a very good, internally-clean copy in the original binding.


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50.CARROLL, Lewis (author). John Vernon LORD (illustrator). Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. London; Artists’ Choice Editions. 2011.


£325


Tall 4to. Finely bound in olive green quarter leather-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, spine lettered gilt, pictorially patterned endpapers, contained within a fine sea-green cloth-covered board slipcase along with a handsomely presented folder containing “Lord’s List” and a separate folder containing 4 Giclée prints (3 in colours and 1 in dramatic black-and- white), each signed and numbered by Vernon Lord ; pp. [viii], 9-138 + [vi]; finely, exquisitely, and profusely illustrated with pictorial title-page and full-, and half-page, engravings printed in full colour or monochrome alongside initials, marginal vignettes, tailpieces and other visual treats throughout; a fine and new copy.


First edition illustrated thus. An artist’s edition printed on fine quality Mohawk cool-white paper in Plantin by Charles Hall and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. From a total limitation of 420 this is one of only 98 signed copies which were issued as “Specials”, bound in morocco- backed boards with a group of signed prints printed on card and a skilfully produced 24-page booklet, illustrated in colour, which is a select bibliography including details of 58 of Lord’s publications.


First edition. Henry W. Cave (1854-1913) travelled to Ceylon at the age of eighteen as the secretary of Reginald Copleston, the Archbishop of Colombo, and there his interest in photography and the island led him to publish a popular series of four titles about Ceylon under the collective title Picturesque Ceylon— Colombo and the Kelani Valley (1893), Kandy and Peradeniya (1894), Nuwara Eliya and Adam’s Peak (1895), and The Ruined Cities of Ceylon (1897), later collected into one volume — illustrated with his own photographs. Golden Tipswas published after the completion of this series, and Cave comments in his preface that, ‘a word of reference to my previous works on Ceylon is necessary to explain the connection of this book with them. The public has eagerly possessed itself of the first editions of four costly volumes, and from this it may be inferred that the subjects and methods of dealing with them are attractive [...] I have been led by these considerations to adhere to the same plan of illustrating all my descriptions with photographs, so placed that they can at once be seen together with the text to which they refer’ (pp. [v]-vi). However, the emphasis is a little different to that in the earlier, more historical works, as the introductory chapter explains: ‘The great tea industry of Ceylon, although an enterprise of recent growth, has become an important item of the world’s commerce. The extraordinary rapidity with which this latest product of the resplendent Lanka has gained universal favour is, of course, due to is superiority over the pekoes and souchongs of other countries. General interest in the island has been quickened to a remarkable extent by its phenomenal success, and those who drink the “cup that cheers” now wish to learn more of the country that produces such an excellent and dainty beverage’ (p.[1]). However, the author does not confine himself simply to tea production, but gives a broader overview of the island, its history, and its peoples and culture, and Golden Tips shared the success of its predecessors, achieving a fourth edition by 1905.


Bitting p. 80; Goonetileke 1715.


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