LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926). Chiswick, London, 1923, small folio, plates, original buckram-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram. (25)

LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926).  Chiswick. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923. Small folio (253 x 165mm). List of subscribers, half title, coloured frontispiece by Christopher Draper, title printed in orange and black with woodcut printer's device, half tone plates. Original buckram-backed paper boards, spine with gilt lettering-piece, uncut (scuff mark to upper cover, white stain on spine, rubbed at corners, bumped at lower edge). FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram, including John Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in London. With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns (London, [1872], 8vo, plates, original brown buckram, the upper cover stamped in gilt "Beef & Liberty"), Tom Taylor's Leicester Square; Its Associations and its Worthies (London, 1874, 8vo, folding facsimile map, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spine), Charles Eyre Pascoe's No. 10, Downing Street, Whitehall: Its History and Associations (London, 1908, 4to, plates, some coloured, original blue buckram gilt), Charles G. Harper's Thames Valley Villages (London, 1910, 2 volumes, large 8vo, plates, fine original green pictorial buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut), R. R. C. Gregory & F. W. Nunn's The Story of Lee [Lewisham] (London, 1923, 4to, frontispiece and illustrations, original dark blue buckram gilt), Kenneth Hare's London's Latin Quarter (London, 1926, 4to, coloured and plain plates by Dorothea St. John George, original "art deco" cloth) and Donald Maxwell's The New Lights of London Being a Series of Impressions of the Glamour and Magic of London at Night (London, 1926, large 8vo, fine coloured lithographed plates by the author, original blue cloth gilt). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (25)