Vanity Fair
Volume of caricatures, 1885-87
Folio, contemporary red cloth album containing 100 chromolithographic caricatures of politicians, aristocrats, judges, authors, soldiers, jockeys, etc., including Richard F. Burton, H. Rider Haggard, William Gladstone, Arthur Balfour, Maharajah Pratap Singh of Idar, and similar, identifying annotations to versos of several prints;Cameron, Donald Young (illustrator). The Story of the Tweed. By Sir Herbert Maxwell. London: James Nisbet and Company, Limited, 1905. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 375, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 23 engraved plates with tissue-guards;[Auction catalogue]. Stowe, near Buckingham. The Ducal Estate and Contents of the Mansion. Northampton: Jackson Stops, 1921. Folio, original cloth-backed boards, halftone photographic plates, binding very shaken, tear to head of spine, covers soiled;and 9 others including: Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden, 1899 (first edition, original cloth, faded and mottled); idem. Home and Garden, 1900 (first edition, original cloth, faded and mottled), J. C. Atkinson, British Birds' Eggs and Nests, no date (12mo, contemporary morocco, chromoxylographic oological plates), Elizabeth Piper, Picturesque Old York, Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1895 (large folio, original red-brown cloth lettered in black, 10 etched plates of 12, tipped in and signed by the artist in pencil, spotting to text); and similar including c.1900 trade catalogues and other natural history, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen (14)
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.