Sales catalogue: Andrew Block

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/0/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    6/20 (page 6)
    i ; 4 ‘ af 3 Le ANDREW BLOCK, Bookseller, 17a, Dean Street, Soho Sullre.. W.1, 73 Galigraphy.—[ Davy (C.)] Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing, with 3 folding plts., Lond., 1772, 8vo, orig. bds., in * with half-title. £2 74 Caligraphy.—A Manuscript, ‘‘Wnting in all Hands, by Mark Black well, 1750,” bnd. up with another Manuscript, ‘‘The Poetaster, or Blackwell’s Recrea-_ tions, by Mark Blackwell of Brockley, 1749,” folio, cf., fine unpublished vol of verse. £5 Two rare manuscripts. 75 Caligraphy.—The Origin and Progress of Writing, dlus. By Thomas Astle, Lond., 1784, fine copy, with half-tetle, 1st Edn., 4to, hf. mor. £6 Bound up with the Ist Edit. of Adam Smith’s Essays. : “The Compleatest Work on the Subject of Writing Extant in this or any other language.’—Lowndes, — 76 Caligraphy. mi). Very Important Manuscript Volume: ‘‘New and Com- . plete Alphabets, 1782,” in all the various Hands of Great Britain, with the Greek, ~ Hebrew and German Characters, by George Ascough, tstle-page, dedication and 18 leaves of alphabets all in very fine calligraphy, oblong folio, orig. bds. £8 77 Carpenter (Edward) England’s Ideal, and other Papers on Social Subs jects, lst Edn., 8vo, orig. blue cl., gt., London, 1887. 12/6 ¢ 78 [Carroll (Lewis)| Curiosissima Curatoria, by Rude Donatus, 1st Edn., Privately printed, Oxford, 1892, 8vo, orig. wrapps., RARE. £3 3/- 7g Carroll (Lewis) The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits, tllus., Ist Edn., Lond., 1876, cr. 8vo, fine copy. 2&4 4/- Very rare in fine state. 80 Garroll (Lewis) The Rare Leaf of Apology for the Bad Printing off the Illustrations in ‘‘ Through the Looking Glass,” a single leaf, 8vo, Xmas, 1893, Jing £2 2 I: According to the Carroll Bibliography this is very rare. j 81 Carroll (Lewis) Three Sunsets, and other Poems, 1st Edn., 2llus. Hy E. G. Thomson, Lond., 1898, 4to, orig. cl. 21/- 82 Carroll (Lewis) Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there, with 50 lusts. by John Tenniel, 1st Edn., Lond., 1872, orig. red cl. (loose in covers: and. joints slightly worn), otherwise good copy, VERY RARE. £8 8/- 83 Gats.—Tales from Catland for Little Kittens, by an Old Tabby, 4 allusts., Lond., 1851, sm. 4to, orig. cl., ScARCE. 15/- With a long MS. Poem (on Kittens), “To Ella’’ on the fiy-leaf. 84 Clocks.—Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakertl of the City of London, lus. By §. E. Atkins and W. H. Overall, Privately printed, 1881,, 4to, orig. cl. (title-page mud-stained, hence the low price). 6/- 85 Cook (Eliza) A Long Personal 4 pp. 4to Autograph Letter signed. In. one part she states, “ If you want to be rich don’t take to Poetry.” £3 o A most intimate and interesting holograph letter signed ‘‘Tisey Cook.’ x 86 Corsets—Health and Beauty, or Corsets and Clothing, constructed ini accordance with the Physiological Laws of the Human Body, by Madame Roxey | Caplin, illus., Lond., N.D. [c. 1854], 4to, orig. cl., scaRcE. £2 2/- 87 Graig (Gordon) Dido and Aeneas: an Opera, by Henry Purcell, hey programme designed and engd. by Edward Gordon Craag, Ist Edn., Clerkenwell, They Priory Press [1901], 8vo, orig. wrapps., EXCEEDINGLY RARE. 21/- fl The illustrations are in Craig’s most characteristic vein. ca 88 Grane (Stephen) Active Service, 1st English Edn., Lond., 1899, orig. buckram, cr. 8vo, uncut. 15/- ei Not mentioned by Starrett. 2: 89 Gricket, by W. G. Grace, zlus., Bristol, 1891, signed by W. G. Grace,, demy 8vo, orig. cl., good. 10/6 go Criminology.—Warning for Servants, and a Caution to Protestant or the Case of Margret Clark, lately Executed for Firing her Master’s House in South-» wark, Lond., Parkhurst, 1680, 4to, sewn, farr. 16/- : gi Dancing.—Beauties of the Opera and Ballet, clus. with 10 Pig ane t numerous wood engrs., Lond., N,D,, rey. 8yo, orig. mor. gt., g.e, &1