Miscellaneous. Binding: Hall (Mrs. S.C., editor), The Drawin...

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£70

Miscellaneous. Binding: Hall (Mrs. S.C., editor), The Drawing-Room Table-Book. London: George Virtue, n.d. [1849], printed in foliate lithographed borders, steel-engraved vignettes with tissue-guards, stained, finely bound in contemporary Renaissance Revival citron morocco, boldly blocked and tooled in gilt with knots and strapwork, six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, some rubbed portions, spine somewhat sunned, all edges gilt and gauffered, 4to; Buchanan (Robert, editor) & Dalziel (The Brothers, engravers), Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867, half-title, plates and poetry, split with movement, finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt over boards, some rubbed wear, all edges gilt, Merchant Taylors' Company's presentation plate, 4to; Grangerised Copy: Russell's Eccentric Personages, Monsieur le Docteur Devine to Daniel Defoe only, London: John Maxwell and Company, 1865, extra-illustrated with late 18th c and later mixed media prints, though principally 19th c, bound by Root & Son in contemporary blue three-quarter calf gilt over marbled boards, signed, repaired, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 8vo; [&] Ruskin (John, editor), Bibliotheca Pastorum, volume IV only: A Knight's Faith, Orpington: George Allen, 1885, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, upper-cover just holding, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (4) 

Provenance: 1st: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), bibliophile, President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to The British Museum; his book label to pastedown, with his loosely-inserted and other pencil bibliographic notes. 3rd: William Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex; his armorial gilt-tooled morocco bookplate to pastedown.