Books & Works on Paper
Lots: 251
Featuring several notable collections, including: costume and theatre set designs by Oliver Messel; a trove of early Folio Society publications and limited editions; an archive of detective publications featuring the famous Sexton Blake. An individual gem is the 1828 edition of "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" by Jane Webb (later Jane Loudon). Considered an early feminist novel, her story takes place in a futuristic world of advanced technology and has the distinction of being the first in the English language to feature a reanimated mummy. The sale also features the classic historical nursing text: Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not’. A first edition published in 1860, the work intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Last but not least, a manuscript map of Bermondsey drawn by James Atkinson in 1696. Atkinson had his shop at Cherry Garden Stairs in Rotherhithe.
Lot 98 - Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, inscribed by John King as a gift from Edmund Burke, 1775
Sold for £375
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![Lot 103 - [Frederic Manning] The Middle Parts of Fortune, number 244 of 520 copies, 1929](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219996-0-small.jpg?v=63843413620047)
Lot 103 - [Frederic Manning] The Middle Parts of Fortune, number 244 of 520 copies, 1929
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 107 - Marx and Engles. Manifesto of the Communist Party. 6th Imp. 1927
Sold for £625
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Lot 111 - Ricardo. On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, third ed. 1821
Sold for £375
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Lot 118 - Charlie Makesy: The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse, 1st. insc. 2019
Sold for £1,625
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Lot 122 - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Sold for £525
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Lot 123 - J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition
Sold for £688
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Lot 126 - M. R. James, A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories, first impression, 1925
Sold for £350
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![Lot 128 - Mervyn Peake [Gormenghast Trilogy], First impressions](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/220772-1-small.jpg?v=63843670276093)
Lot 128 - Mervyn Peake [Gormenghast Trilogy], First impressions
Sold for £525
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Lot 132 - Peters. Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, first editions.
Sold for £475
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Lot 133 - Ruppersberg. A Novel That Writes Itself: A Proposal to Friends and Supporters, 1978
Sold for £212
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Lot 134 - Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five, first printing, 1969
Sold for £300
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Lot 135 - Aesop, The Fables..., Number 86 of 160 Copies, Officina Bodoni, 1973
Sold for £2,000
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Lot 136 - Edmund Spenser, The Works…, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-32
Sold for £400
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Lot 137 - Ferrari, Catalogue Raisonné, Golden Edition 1946-86, and others
Sold for £275
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Lot 138 - Jack Butler Yeats, Life in the West of Ireland, one of 150 copies, 1912
Sold for £350
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Lot 139 - John Dryden, The Dramatic Works, Number 6 of 50 special sets, Nonesuch Press, 1931-32
Sold for £400
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Lot 144 - Anthony Trollope, The Complete Collection, Folio Society, signed by the illustrators
Sold for £275
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Lot 145 - Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (illustrator) The Best of Roald Dahl, signed by Blake
Sold for £250
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Lot 156 - The Folio Society: A collection of 5 classic titles, hors de commerce copies
Sold for £1,125
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Lot 158 - The Folio Society: Charles Dickens, The Works, 16 vols.
Sold for £525
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Lot 159 - The Folio Society: Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Limited Edition
Sold for £1,375
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Lot 161 - The Folio Society: H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories
Sold for £688
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Lot 165 - The Folio Society: Kitagawa Utamaro (Illustrator), Studies from Nature
Sold for £750
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Lot 167 - The Folio Society: Ovid, Metamorphoses, one of 20 hors de commerce copies
Sold for £200
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![Lot 174 - [Beaulaincourt (Antoine de)]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/218095-6-small.jpg?v=63843615218440)
![Lot 177 - [Lea (Philip)] The Coats-of-Arms of the King](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219934-1-small.jpg?v=63843416062147)
Lot 182 - Propert (W.A.) The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920
Sold for £325
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Lot 189 - Milne When We Were Very Young & Winnie the Pooh, 1st ed's.
Sold for £2,750
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![Lot 190 - [Pigal (J.S.) [Edme Jean] Recueil des scenes familieres et de Societe de Paris]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/214010-0-small.jpg?v=63837979933487)
Lot 190 - [Pigal (J.S.) [Edme Jean] Recueil des scenes familieres et de Societe de Paris]
Sold for £156
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Lot 192 - Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates, first edition
Sold for £525
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