Autumn Listing: Catalogue 148! 🍂

 

 
Cover image:
[Untitled self-portrait of Ellis Martin.]
Ellis Martin 1907.
Watercolour, signed. 230 x 180mm (9 x 7") Mint
A head and shoulders self-portrait of Ellis Martin (1881-1977), famed for his illustrated covers for Ordnance Survey maps, 1921-40.
[Ref: 66855]   £650.00   
 
We are pleased to present our autumn listing:
Catalogue 148!
 
 
A few highlights:
 
[India] [15 plates from ''Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India''.]
[Captain Godfrey Munday]
London. Published by John Murray, April 1832.
15 steel engravings. Each sheet c. 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed and pasted on album sheets in threes, some spotting and glue stains.
A collection of plates from the account of a tour in India by Godfrey Charles Munday (1804-1860), including tiger hunting from elephants and hunting with leopards. An army officer who served in India and Australia, he became Permanent Under Secretary for War during the Crimean War then Lieutentant Governor of Jersey.
[Ref: 66607]   £550.00   view all images for this item
 
 
[Album of etchings by Paul Sandby.]
[London: Ryland & Bryer, n.d., c.1765.]
Folio, contemporary paper-covered boards; 96 etchings on 46 sheets on laid paper (Strasburg Bend & Lily watermark). Hinges strained, paper toned, one sheet spotted.
A collection of prints etched early in the career of Paul Sandby (1731-1809), probably made for private study or for use as teaching aids and either not previously published or issued privately. Only a few are dated and the spread is 1750-8, prior to Sandy's adoption of aquatint. The British Museum has a similar album of 95 etchings, stating that there ''is no consistency between the known copies of the set: they average around ninety prints per copy, differing in pagination and in the arrangement of the prints on each sheet''.
BM 1850,1014.538, with extensive description.
[Ref: 66611]   £850.00   view all images for this item
 
 
A Long Headed Assembly. 119.
Woodward del. Cruikshank sb.
Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c. 1937]
Hand-coloured etching 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
A party scene where enlarged headed Lilliputianesque people play cards. Originally published in 1806 by Tegg, according to Dorothy George this version is from, 'In another set (Mr. W. T. Spencer, 1937) it is in vol. ii, with the serial number 119.'
BM Satires 10663
[Ref: 66826]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT) 


Happy browsing!
 
Catalogue 149, which will heavily feature cricket, will be released at lunchtime on 29th October for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair. 
 

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