Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
LONDON, KENSINGTON - Leigh HUNT (1784-1859). The Old Court Suburb: or Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, & Anecdotical [sic] ... edited by Austin Dobson & newly embellish'd. London: Freemantle & Co., 1902. 2 volumes, 4to (221 x 175mm). Half titles, 2 frontispieces and 42 plates and illustrations by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson and Edmund J. Sullivan (frontispieces and titles lightly spotted). Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. ONE OF 150 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES SIGNED BY THE THREE ARTISTS, this copy unnumbered. With 2 other books of related interest, namely Henry George Davis's The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge (London, 1859, plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION) and W. J. Loftie's Kensington Picturesque & Historical (London, Field & Tuer, 1888, plates and illustrations, some coloured, original blue cloth gilt, inner hinges weak, FIRST EDITION). (4)