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Books - Merton [Thoms] - The Old Story Books of England
PUBLISHED [1845] A.D.
6 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (572 grams, 17 x 13 cm).
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. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx libris Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote and David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
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Books - Merton [Thoms] - The Old Story Books of England
Published [1845] A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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. -
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Books - Various - Mixed Titles [10]
Published 19th-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
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. -
Books - Giovanni Oliva - In Marmor Isiacum, Romae Nuper Effossum, Exercitationes
Published 1719 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Oliva, Giovanni, In Marmor Isiacum, Romae Nuper Effossum, Exercitationes ad Reverendiss. P. Magistrum F. Antoninum Cloche Totius Dominicanæ Familiæ Generalem, Rome, 1719; first edition, original vellum with spine label and 19th century shelf label '770'; xvi pp + 112 pp; Latin text with Greek and Hebrew quotations; fold-out engraving showing four faces of the Roman altar with scale in palmi Romani; title page with text set in both red and black. 208 grams, 18.8 x 13.2 cm
Good condition; minor stains.
Ex libris David M. Miller. Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Giovanni Oliva was an antiquarian and bibliographer who wrote extensively about Greek and Roman archaeology as understood in the early 18th century. In this book he describes a newly discovered monument found during the excavations near the Library of Minerva in Rome, which Oliva tried to show was originally a votive altar for the cult of Isis, popular in Rome in the 2nd century A.D.
