Lot 590

MISCELLANY - [LOCH, C. G. (1854-1904)]. The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown and Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw & Did at Biarritz & The Pyrenees, London, [c.1880], 4to, illustrations, boards. With 9 other works in 10 vols. (11)

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £40
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

MISCELLANY - [LOCH, Catharine Grace (1854-1904)].  The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown and Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw & Did at Biarritz & The Pyrenees by Mrs Brown. London: Bickers & Son & Ipswich: Cowell's Anastatic Press, [c.1880]. 4to (310 x 245mm). Title and leaves numbered 1 - 49, illustrations printed by the "anastatic" process (lacks all before title [i.e. ?blanks], some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker larger spots). Original blue cloth-backed printed paper boards (edges rubbed, a little faded and stained, stain to lower cover). Written in imitation of Richard Doyle's The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (London, 1855), this is a reprint of the 1877 original, with the addition of London and Bickers & Son to the imprint. With 9 other miscellaneous works in 10 volumes, namely Richard Wotton's Reliquiæ Wottonianæ ... The Fourth Edition (London, 1685, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plate, very defective, lacks all after p.202, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover), Joseph Addison's The Free-Holder or Political Essays (London, 1761, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, originally published in periodical form between 1715 and 1716), [Henry Mackenzie's] The Man of Feeling. A New Edition (London, 1781, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached), [Oliver Goldsmith's] The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East (London, 1790, 2 vols., 19th-century half calf, a reprint of a collection which was first published in 1762), The Guardian. Volume the Second (London, 1797, vol. II only, 8vo, engraved illustration, contemporary calf, rubbed), [Laurent Bordelon's] Hints on Conversation, &c. &c. Translated from the French, By a Lady (London, 1819, 8vo, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, with some loss to head of spine, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of a work that was first published in France in 1694), Thomas Moore's The Loves of the Angels. A Poem ... Third Edition (London, 1823, 8vo, contemporary calf with elaborate gilt borders, rebacked), Thomas Gray's An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (London, 1869, 4to, 16 lithographed plates by various artists printed in colours, some staining, original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black, gilt edges) and John Pye & John Lewis Roget's Notes and Memoranda Respecting the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner (London, 1879, 8vo, etched frontispiece, original cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, spine lacking, rubbed, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold as a quantity, not subject to return. (11)

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