very good in good jacket, loss at head of spine panel, splits along folds repaired with Japanese tissue on verso. ¶ Clive Aslet, Villages of Britain , 2011; Sharon Butler & Peggy Bundy, “Fact and Fiction: George Egerton and Nellie Shaw”, Feminist Review , no. 30, 1988. £675 [159382] 244 SHAKESPEARE, William; THOMSON, Hugh (illus.) The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: William Heinemann, 1910 First Thomson edition, in an attractive Bayntun binding. Hugh Thomson (1860–1920) was one of the most notable book illustrators of the late 19th- and early 20th centuries. Octavo (252 × 188 mm). Near-contemporary red half morocco by Bayntun (Rivière), spine lettered in gilt, raised bands and compartments tooled in gilt, sides and corners trimmed with single blind fillet, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Mounted colour frontispiece and 39 similar plates with captioned tissue guards printed in red, numerous woodcuts in the text. Foxing to contents, illustrations unaffected and bright. A very good, prettily bound copy. £650 [157320] 245 SHAKESPEAR, Leslie Waterfield. History of The Assam Rifles. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929 First edition of this “comprehensive history with good detail of operations in the Chin Hills, Naga Hills, Abor, Lushai” (Perkins). Shakespear himself led the punitive expedition to Yachumi village in 1900 and was commander of the force sent against the Kuki Rebellion in 1917–19. An excellent copy of this work which, as Perkins suggest, is “seen only rarely”, particularly so in the fragile jacket. Octavo. Original dark green combed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, regimental crest gilt to the front board. With the typographical dust jacket. Half-tone frontispiece and 53 other plates, one of them coloured, six coloured folding maps and plans. Bookplate of military collector/historian Ernest J. Martin on the front pastedown. A little bumped at corners and edges, slight cockling at fore edges of boards, pale toning to the text, mild foxing at fore edge, else very good in similar jacket a touch tanned at spine, chipped head and tail, a couple of internal archival tape repairs. ¶ Perkins, p. 515. £850 [157167]
242 SÉVIGNÉ, Madame de – DE PULIGA, Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Comtesse. Madame de Sévigné. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873 First edition, a most attractive extra-illustrated copy in a splendid Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding, featuring their “binding hammerer” gilt stamp on the rear turns-ins. 2 volumes, octavo (210 × 132 mm). Late 19th-century red levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines lettered and decorated with floral pattern in gilt, raised bands, boards elaborately bordered and with broad ornamental cornerpieces, elaborately gilt turn-ins, gilt textured and patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 59 plates including engraved portraits and facsimiles of handwriting. Very light shelf wear, contents lightly foxed, offsetting from plates, otherwise bright and attractive. £675 [156288] 243 SHAW, Nellie. Whiteway. London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1935 First edition, by one of Whiteway’s founding members Nellie Shaw, “an anarchist-feminist seamstress from Penge” (Butler & Bundy, p. 25). Whiteway was a Tolstoyan anarchist community established near the Gloucestershire village of Miserden in 1898 based on the principles of equality between sexes and individuals. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket, designed by Whiteway member Rhoda Desmond. Frontispiece of a letter from H. G. Wells, 5 photographic plates. Slight lean to spine, a little shaken and foxed, still
240 SEUSS, Dr. The Sneetches and Other Stories. New York: Random House, Inc. 1961 First edition, later printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper verso, “For Marcus! Dr. Seuss”. For the recipient, see the previous item. Quarto. Original laminated pictorial boards, spine lettered in and front cover in black and white, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by the author. Publisher’s price- sticker to front cover. A near-fine copy, hint of rubbing at extremities. ¶ Younger & Hirsch 73. £450 [158235] 241 SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random House, Inc., 1985 Facsimile edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper verso, “For Marcus! Dr. Seuss”. For the recipient, see item 239. The Cat in the Hat , Dr. Seuss’s most enduring work, was first published in 1957. Small quarto. Original laminated pictorial blue boards, spine lettered in white, front cover lettered in white and illustrated in red and black, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by the author. Contemporary price label to front board. A very good copy with cocked spine and extremities lightly rubbed. ¶ Younger & Hirsch 7a. £450 [158233]
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