Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £380 |
LONDON, CHIEFLY THE WEST END - Arthur Irwin DASENT (1859-1939). Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some Account of Berkeley Square and the Haymarket. London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. Large 8vo (220 x 142mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and 11 plates. Attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). FIRST EDITION. With 12 other books of related interest, all leather-bound, including Edgar Sheppard's The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall (London, 1902, large 8vo, plates, red half morocco gilt, joints split), E. Beresford Chancellor's The Private Palaces of London (London, 1908, 4to, plates, attractively bound in brown half morocco gilt, upper joints splitting), the same author's The Romance of Soho (London, 1931, 8vo, plates, attractively bound in blue half morocco gilt), the same author's The Annals of Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (London, [n.d.], 8vo, plates, attractively bound in brown half morocco gilt, spine faded), P. H. Ditchfield's London's West End (London, 1925, 8vo, plates, red half calf gilt) and J. C. Squire's A London Reverie (London, 1928, 4to, plates by Joseph Pennell, FINELY BOUND by Henry Sotheran in tan half morocco gilt with floral motifs in the compartments of the spine). (13)