Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £400 |
LONDON, GENERAL - E. Beresford CHANCELLOR (1868-1937). "Original Views of London as it is, by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842". A Re-Issue of the Complete Set of these Scarce and Valuable Delineations of London. London: The Architectural Press, 1926. Half title, title printed in red and black, half tone plates after Thomas Shotter Boys [Bound with the same author's:] "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc. Drawn from Nature on Stone by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839". A Reissue ... London: The Architectural Press, 1928. Half title, title printed in red and black, 26 coloured plates after Thomas Shotter Boys. Together 2 works bound in one volume, 4to (302 x 235mm). FINELY BOUND by Henry Sotheran in red half crushed morocco gilt, the spine gilt in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (corners lightly rubbed). With 16 other works of related interest in 20 volumes, all leather-bound, including Jacob Larwood's The Story of the London Parks (London, [c.1874], 8vo, hand-coloured plates, attractively bound by Hatchards in green half morocco gilt), Henry B. Wheatley's London Past and Present (London, 1891, 3 volumes, large 8vo, attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in half brown morocco gilt) and Richard Davey's The Pageant of London (London, 1906, 2 volumes, large 8vo, coloured plates, attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in blue half morocco gilt, spines faded). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (21)