Books - [Anonymous] - The Modern Traveller - Arabia

Group comprising: The Oxford Library of Classic English Short Stories, 1900-1975, London, 1990, 2 volumes in slipcase; Freud, Sigmund, On Dreams, London, 1952, new translation; Russell, Bertrand, Authority and the Individual, Reith Lectures, 1949; Moore, T. Inglis, Selected Poems of Henry Kendall, 1975, reprint; Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, Epochs of Modern History, London, 1878; Macartney, Frederick T., The Collected Verse of A B Paterson, Sydney, 1961, 28th printing; Hudson, W. H., Green Mansions, Collins, 1957, later edition; Adams, David, The Letters of Rachel Henning, Sydney, 1942, illustrated (2 copies) and Mr Middleton's Garden Book, Daily Express, nd, illustrated (spine torn away); mostly hardback. 4.8 kg total, 15.5 x 11 - 27 x 22 cm

Generally good or better condition; last with loose binding and defective spine.

The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex. Thence by descent to family members.

Thomas Comber D.D., A Companion to the Altar; or, an Help to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper; by Discourses and Meditations upon the whole Communion Office to which is added an Essay upon the Offices of Baptism, Catechism and Confirmation. The Third Edition. leather binding with lightly tooled borders, feint partial title to spine; frontispiece with printing details 'Imprimatur / Jan.21 / 167¾' and 'C.Smith, R.P.D. / Episc. Lond. à / sacris domesticis'; pencilled owner's autograph 'Edith C. Westercott/ May 1918'; ixpp + 489 pp + 7 pp (21 pp absent). 505 grams, 18.8 x 12.5 cm

Light soiling; upper part of spine absent, scuffed corners and foredges.

Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Ambrose Merton, i.e. William John Thoms, The Old Story Books of England. Illustrated with twelve pictures by eminent artists. Collected and re-edited by Amb [rose] Mer[ton] comprising The famous history of Guy Earl of Warwick; The gallant history of Bevis of Southampton; History of Tom Hickathrift the Conqueror; The famous story of Friar Bacon; A true tale of Robin Hood; A merry tale of the king and the cobbler; The sweet and pleasant tale of patient Grissel; The romantic story of the princess Rosetta; The mad pranks of Robin Goodfellow; The rarest ballad that ever was seen of the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green; The doleful story of the babes in the wood; The lady Isabella's tragedy; A mournful ditty of the death of fair Rosamund; to which is added Queen Eleanor's confession; Gammer Gurton's Garland, calf binding with tooled pattern to covers and spine with gold-blocked title; marbled endpapers and bookplate of Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote; manuscript presentation texts to first page 'Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote / 11th Nov.ber 1844 / From M.W.' and 'Martin Shirley Heathcote / March 1921 / from Grace Heathcote'; twelve colour plates illustrating the stories. 572 grams, 17 x 13 cm

Good condition; binding slightly worn.

Ex libris Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote and David M. Miller. Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.