Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £400 |
LONDON, ST. JAMES'S - Edgar SHEPPARD (1845-1921). Memorials of St. James's Palace. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 2 volumes, large 8vo (216 x 150mm). Half titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.70 engraved and lithographed plates, a few coloured, a few folding. FINELY BOUND by Bayntun (Rivière) in full navy blue crushed morocco gilt, the spines gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (scuff mark to rear cover of the first volume). Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (red morocco armorial bookplate, from Christie's sale on 13 July, 2000, part of lot 852). With 2 other books of related interest, namely Arthur Irwin Dasent's The History of St. James's Square and the Foundation of the West End of London (London, 1895, large 8vo, plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.70 engraved and lithographed plates, FINELY BOUND in full burgundy crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, joints rubbed and splitting) and E. Beresford Chancellor's Memorials of St. James's Street together with the Annals of Almack's (London, 1922, large 8vo, plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.47 engraved and lithographed plates, FINELY BOUND in full dark blue crushed morocco gilt by C. J. Sawyer, the last book with the same provenance as the first). (4)