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14. ATTENBOROUGH, David. The Trials of Life. BBC Books. 1990.
£20
4to. Original cloth and dustwrapper; pp. 320, lavishly illustrated with colour photographs; spine a little faded, very good..
First edition. Attenborough looks at the behaviour of animals in the fight for survival.
15.ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie (illustrator). An original pen-and-ink illustration with monochrome wash for “The Amateur Cook”: “Delecta has kindly consented to give her cake lecture in the garden”. [1905].
£898
An original, signed, pen-and-ink illustration with monochrome wash by Mabel Lucie Attwell, image size 220 x 170mm; in fine condition within a cream hand-cut mount with gilt border and the gallery label from Chris Beetles Limited to the reverse; shown in their exhibition entitled “The British Art of Illustration 1800-1994”; the illustration is reproduced at page 152 of The Amateur Cook.
-sold with:
ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie (illustrator). Katharine BURRILL and Annie M. BOOTH (co-authors). The Amateur Cook. New York; Frederick A. Stokes Company. [1905].
Square 8vo. Original olive green cloth prettily and pictorially blocked in colours and gilt to spine and upper board, plain edges, pictorial green endpapers; pp. [viii] + 296; with frontispiece, pictorial title and 3 other monochrome plates, together with tail-pieces in line; a very nice copy; externally very bright and clean; internally equally good, with some spotting to prelims and occasional browning.
First U.S. edition, issued alongside the English edition. FROM JOHN FOWLES’S LIBRARY
16. AUBREY, John. FOWLES, John, and Rodney LEGG, editors. Monumenta Britannica or A Miscellany of British Antiquities. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1981
£298
4to., original cloth with slipcase. Spine a little sunned otherwise a very good copy.
First US edition, one of 250 numbered copies, signed by John Fowles, this being No. 2. From Fowles’ library, with his blind stamp on the flyleaf and two letters to him from the publishers forwarding American reviews – ‘Also, two reviews on The French Lieutenant’s Woman screenplay.’
The first appearance of Aubrey’s great work, compiled in the final decades of the seventeenth century. Its publication was a massive undertaking for which Legg was not really sufficiently qualified, either as editor or publisher, and despite his undoubted enthusiasm it is doubtful whether the project would have been completed without Fowles’ intervention
The Monumenta Britannica was Aubrey’s principal collection of archaeological material, written over some thirty years between about 1663 and 1693. It falls into four parts: (1) “Templa Druidum”, a discussion of supposed “druidic” temples, notably Avebury and Stonehenge; (2) “Chorographia Antiquaria”, a survey of other early urban and military sites, including Roman towns, hillforts (“camps”), and castles; (3) a review of other archaeological remains, including sepulchral monuments, roads, coins and urns; and (4) a series of more analytical pieces, including four exercises attempting to chart the chronological stylistic evolution of handwriting, medieval architecture, costume, and shield-shapes. Of these last, the essay on architecture, “Chronologia Architectonica”, written in 1671, was the most detailed, and (although in its unpublished state it remained little known) is now regarded as a highly perceptive milestone in the development of architectural history.
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17. AUSTEN, Jane (author). Hugh THOMSON (illustrator). Pride and Prejudice. London; George Allen. 1894.
£1,350
8vo. Original dark green cloth elaborately and stunningly pictorially blocked in gilt with a peacock design to spine and upper board, all edges gilt; pp. xxvii, [1]-476; prettily illustrated throughout with line-engravings by Hugh Thomson; externally uncommonly clean and sharp with just a touch of dulling to spine gilt; internally also exceptionally fresh with slight foxing to endpapers, faint uniform toning throughout and neat and tight hinges; increasingly scarce in collectable condition.
First edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson. This edition is generally considered to be the finest illustrated interpretation of Jane Austen’s classic.
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