Sales catalogue 329: William Ridler

Date:
1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/45/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 329: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g > a ‘ . al ; ; ‘ : A ‘ ese? r i y a’ iad a —— HS, Rare Books & Gollections of Prints Part 329.] CATALOGUE ee OF A MOST VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS & MSS. Books in all Classes of Literature. English Black Letter Books. Rare Bibles. Aldines. EHlzevirs. Many Fine Old Bind- ings. Historical, Heraldic, and Topographical Works. French Books, illustrated by Eisen, Moreau, Marillier, Gravelot, etc. Collections of OLD PRINTS, Portraits, Woodcuts, Costumes. Books relating to AMERICA, its Discovery, Voyages, ete. NOW ON SALE FoR CASH ONLY sy WILLIAM RIDLER, 45, BOOKSELLERS’ ROW, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. Posr OFFICE ORDERS MADE RECEIVABLE AT 178, EAST STRAND, LONDON, W.C, +: » These Catalogues are issued monthly and will be sent to Bookbuyers on receipt of One Shilling to frank postage, for the year. Hogarth (Wm.) Royal folio Scrap Book, of stout old paper, con- taining ONE HUNDRED AND Forty LARGE AND VERY EARLY HoGArtua’s PRINTS, MANY. ORI- GINALS IN BRILLIANT CoNDITION BEFORE THE INSCRIPTIONS, others in DIFFERENT STATES, all this inimitable Artist’s best known Productions, INSERTED (not laid down) between the leaves, half morocco nt., linen flips, from Hon. JOHN CARNEGI#’S CoLLection, £15 10s 1733, etc. THE EXCESSIVE RARITY OF ORIGINAL HOGARTHS IS TOO WELL KNOWN TO NEED: ANY COMMENT, the prints in the volume were published between 1733—64, and such a collection has not occurred for sale for many years. THE ieone™ SmitH COLLECTION, 100 PLATES, SOLD FOR OVER £50, Phillips’ Collection £62 10s. Chaucer (Gi.) Workes.—CAUNTERBURY TALES, RoMAUNT OF THE Rossz, TROYLUS AND CrESEYDE, BOETIUS CONSALACIONE, Teoretene oF Loves, etc., thick sm. very neat, £5 18s. [UdAestmestr e, GAm. Carton, 1481] The late owner of this copy has had the centre of title reprinted as printed at WESTMESTRE by WYLLYAM Cax- TON, 1481. The old printer has finished the book and printed ‘‘ Post obittwm Caxton.” The volume will be sold as it is, as @ VERY EARLY CHAUCER PROBABLY PRINTED IN 1532. Or CAxXTON’s OWN EDITION AN IMPERFECT COPY RECENTLY SOLD FOR OVER £1000, Binding.—Horatius Opera, folio, printed with large type, engraved title, and ornamented vignettes, FINE COPY, original orange morocco extra, full gilt back, the sides covered with gold tooling, with CARDINAL ARMS IN CENTRE, gilé edges, £3 10s Paris, 1624 Grand specimen of the Royal Press of Paris, and a fine old binding. ~ : A Caricatures.— H. B.’s CELEBRATED POLITICAL SKETCHES, 4 vols, folio, 432 large satirical plates by the Inimitable H. B., new hulf morocco nt., £3 18s 1834 —42 A capital collection, Pan eB all the important Historical Events of the period. A VERY CHEAP COLLECTION. Dickinson (Wm.) History and Antiquities of SourHwELi and NEWARK, 2 vols, roy. 4t0, LARGE PAPER. portraits and many BEAUTIFUL PLATES, Views, etc., BRILLIANT PROOFS, also folding pedigrees of Families, VERY FINE COPY, russia gilt extra, marb, edges, crest of Str R. C. HoarR in gold, £3 15s _Newark, 1817—19 VERY SCARCE IN THIS FINE STATE. These two volumes sold in the Hoare sale for £8 8s. Wouverman'’s Works, royal folio, Collection of 80 large prints of the WorK3 OF PHILIP Sea ae nntaanel by French & Flemish Artists, with margins, £5 5s SELDOM SUCH A LOT OF THIS FAMOUS ARTIST'S PRODUCTIONS OCCUR FOR SALE. Similar collection was priced in a very recent London Catalogue at £20. Ancient Prints by CoLLARTE, CRISPIN DE Passg, DE Jopg, GALLE, VisscHer, M, DE Voss, etc., oblong folto: over 200 LARGE AND VERY BEAUTIFUL PRINTS, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, antique calf neat, £3 13s 6d 1560, ete, A delightful assemblage of the works of these Old Masters.