A Pair of Spectacles A Comedy in Three Acts adapted from the French by Sydney Grundy (in manuscript0
[LABICHE EM & DELACOUR A] GRUNDY Sydney 1848-1914
c1890 a 4 page printed theater program (ms ink dated Saturday July 1890) for the Garrick Theater, advertising their performance of A Pair of Spectacles, starring John Hare (1844-1914) as Mr Goldfinch, along with 43 leaves of ink manuscript dialog…
Sons of the Desert - Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
An Album of Original Water Colour Drawings, of Arab horses and riders, by Henry Alken, c1829 Oblong, in blue long grained morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt tooling & titles, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt…
Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
18 Stunning water colours by Henry Alken In a superb green long grain morocco (by Riviere and Son), elaborate gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, raised bands, edges brushed. Internally, gilt…
A Fortnights Trip in North Wales 1874 Original Manuscript Travel Journal
CHAPPELOW John A.
In contemporary marbled soft paper covers, ms title to upper cover, cotton ties to spine. Internally, title, dedication, preface, map (indicating route), index, followed by 82 pages (18 Chapters) of neat, legible copperplate script, detailing a…
31 Original Watercolours
GILPIN William? 1724-1804
A very rare collection of 31 original watercolours, and ink note, by or possibly after William Gilpin In half calf, over worn marbled boards, new tips, some blind tooling, edges rubbed. Respined old invisibly laid down, decorative gilt tooling,…
Plans of the Ports of England & Wales (manuscript)
GMB?
Eighty Three Attractive Hand Drawn Maps of the English & Welsh Ports, coloured in outline VG, 1866-1881, large oblong, half calf over contemporary maroon cloth, contemporary gilt title & tooling to black morocco label, some blind tooling.…
Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales [MS maps]
HOLDEN R.G.
With Forty Two Manuscript Maps. Small octavo, manuscript title page and forty two county maps in light red, blue and yellow, town and place names written in an extremely neat hand, not dated but circa 1800, contemporary half calf over mottled…
Manuscript Fragment and Prints
JONES Richard Roberts (Dic Aberdaron)
Rare Dic Aberdaron manuscripts notes. Two engraved portraits, one a steel engraving dated 1819 (an early version of the frontispiece portrait to The Memoir), and the other a full-length depiction of Jones by AB Burt (miniature painter, Chester),…
Silver Wedding Vignette Sketches
RIMER John
84 original pen and ink drawings Oblong folio, full padded red morocco, brass bound with clasps, 84 original pen and ink drawings, finished in black/grey/ sepia and white water colour as heightening, each drawing oblong 4to mounted on the…
Songs of Shakespeare [Tempest, Act V Scene 1] (Calligraphic works)
Shakespeare William. [PARRY]
Manuscript, in limp white vellum, with vellum ties (1 damaged). Internally, title page followed by 6 leaves of attractive calligraphic text (87 lines), each leaf with a coloured initial letter, and a guard, followed by 4 blank leaves, not dated but…
[Habits of Religious Orders] A Collection of 282 original watercolour drawings of nuns and priests, with accompanying manuscript descriptions in English.
Unknown
282 hand coloured-plates - Manuscript descriptions No author known and not published. c1780 Five large quarto volumes. Volumes I-III contain 155 plates depicting priests; Volumes IV-V contain 127 plates depicting nuns. Each plate mounted on…
Views of North Wales - 1854 Drawings
Unknown
A series of eleven pencil drawings, some highlighted with watercolour, principally of Dolgellau; Llanbadarn Fawr and Barmouth, minimal amount of foxing, the views, each 36 * 25 cm, mounted on larger sheets with manuscript titles below. …
Album of Original Pencil Drawings
VARLEY John 1778-1842
c1823-1832, Oblong quarto. Eighteen mounted drawings in a contemporary half red roan album, 1 leaf (with 5 heads) with some burn marks to edges, with the original stationer's label of H. Ziegler and Co. Some additional pages are blank and others…