EXQUISITE VICTORIAN ALBUM. c.[1840-45].
4to. 29 x 24cm. Silken e.ps., contemporary maroon leather boards heavily embossed in blind with gilt ruling to edges of boards and ‘Album’ in gilt to spine, minor wear, a.e.g., enclosed in water silk covered box labelled ‘Scrap Book M A Max No. 1.’
Comprising :
Hand written poem surrounded by hand painted floral wreath headed by a harp bearing woman and two bearers.
Mounted lace edged Valentine with bird bearing missive, hand painted with real feathers and birds tail and leaves.
Printed two colour page.
Pen and ink drawing of interior.
Briar rose and two butterflies painted on rice paper.
Blank blind embossed paper.
Mounted pencil drawings of Holyrood Palace and Dryburgh Abbey.
Caligraphy poem ‘Sonnet to Lake Leman’ dated August 17 1844 (Lord Byron).
Pencil drawing of Newstead Abbey and the first verse in pen of ‘On Leaving Newstead Abbey’ by Lord Byron [To Verso] Painted vignette of a River, Chapel, Castle, and Figures in pencil floral border.
Lace edged hand painted figure of a girl in a plumed hat, ringlets and with a locket.
Hand painted Bird of Paradise on pencil branch, mounted on embossed fawn paper.
Hand painted Chinese Sage on rice paper with gilt border.
Large Georgian house in pastoral landscape overlooking bay with ships and distant hills.
Hand coloured painting of Conrad and Medora with verse from Byron’s Corsair.
Verses entitled ‘Human Life’ dated July 8th 1945.
Pen and ink sketch of Beverly Minster [To Verso] Hand painted poesy of Anemones.
Pencil and hand painted vignette of a harvest scene entitled ‘Summer To Mary first the brimming cup is given.’
Asian Warrior hand painted on rice paper with gilt taped border.
Pencil rural background with hand painted spaniel and pheasant.
Four hand painted floral studies individually on rice paper with gilt borders.
Superb double page hand coloured depiction of ‘The Napoleon
Ladder’ with 30 hand coloured vignettes on 4 inverted cannons illustrating military scenes above two painted plinths with emblematic eagles. [One leaf to verso of previous image].
Pencil drawings of Mill, with trees and lake and distant mountains.
Hand painted vase urn and jug on blind embossed paper.
Illuminated leaf with intricate floriated initial letters of verse ‘Say what is music tis a wand whose touch awakes the slumber deep ... ‘
Two hand painted wreaths of flowers and leaves on timber veneer.
Five pencil vignettes of Churches and large houses in country settings [To Verso] hand painted mounted fox head.
8 line manuscript poem ‘Nights of Music’ by Thomas Moore.
Pencil drawing of a young maiden in period costume with a bird looking through a window. [To Verso] a pen & ink drawing of ruined church on veneer.
Hand painted maiden in straw hat within lace edged frame. [To Verso] Manuscript poem ‘The Outpost Bugle’.
Pencil drawing of Cove Barbour Cork’. [To Verso] Hand painted of River, Harbour, Town and rural background with distant castle.
Hand painted Oriental lady on rice paper with gilt frame.
Pencil background with hand painted spaniel chasing a partridge.
Pen and ink sketch of ‘Crow Chief’ in war dress on horse. [To Verso] Hand painted portrait of a dog.
Pencil sketches of Desmond Buildings and White Abbey Adare.
Pen and ink sketch of the ‘Interior of the Grand Mosque of Sultan Kehmet, Constantinople.’
Hand painted oriental woman lace making on rice paper in gilt frame (with vertical tear).
Hand painted bearded Turkish? man with pipe on rice paper with gilt tape border.
Pencil background with hand painted bird of prey and two waterfowl in flight. [To Verso] Hand painted poppy and bud with leaves, mounted.
Manuscript ‘Ode to the Sea’, 12 lines dated October 26 1844.
Pencil drawing ‘Dunbrody Abbey.’ [To Verso] Hand painted vignette of beach with boat and horse.
Four hand painted images of men from different parts of the world on rice paper with gilt frames.
Hand painted bouquet of flowers including lily, tulips, roses, etc.
Pencil drawing of ruined classical temple in wooded landscape with a figure.
Pencil woodland background with hand painted stag jumping log.
Hand painted floral with butterfly on rice paper with gilt border (with vertical tear).
Pencil background of classic buildings and active volcano with eloping? hand painted couple in classical dress. [To Verso] Pencil drawn branch with hand painted Kingfisher perched.
Pencil drawing of a wedding party leaving a church.
Hand painted image of a peasant woman with a baby on her back on rice paper with gilt taped border (with vertical tear).
Pencil rural background with six hand painted pheasants.
Pencil background of Italinate Villa with three hand painted figures.
Painted floral four colour ‘Finis’ leaf.
£2,500.00 [ref: 292735]
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR MAP EXPO‘70. Guide to Expo’70 Site & Surrounding Areas. Roads, Access Routes, Train and Air Information Japan and the World. Progress and Harmony for Mankind. 1970.
Text in English and Japanese. [viii]pp. Folding plan measuring 102 x 73cm. Colour printed both sides. Enclosed in original wrapps., light stain to rear pastedown.
March 15 - 13 September 1970 Osaka Japan.
£100.00 [ref: 286699]
ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, ENGRAVINGS & DRAWINGS (1860-1875).
Folio. 49 x 31cm. Ex.-libris H.F.J. Coape-Arnold of Wolvey Hall, some blank leaves, dec. e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, handsomely bound in full gilt tooled morocco, minor marking and wear.
https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2015/10/185-arnold-later-coape-arnold-of-ashby.html
James Coape (c.1815-89) ... took possession of the Ashby Lodge, Mirables and Wolvey estates ... Mirables was sold in about 1873, although Coape replaced it with a house at Ryde (Isle of Wight) which became his main home. Ashby Lodge was sold in the 1880s to Paul Hibbert of Bilton Hall (Warks), a half-brother of the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, who further altered the house and built a Catholic chapel nearby. James Coape’s son H.F.J. Coape-Arnold (1846-1923) settled on his father's death in 1889 at Wolvey Hall, where he rebuilt the old house, which already by the 1820s was regarded as a farmhouse and unfit for gentry occupation. His father's house in Ryde was sold and he was left with just Wolvey Hall and the Goldhanger lands. The eldest son, Cranfield Coe Henry Coape-Arnold (1873-1963) inherited the Wolvey and Goldhanger estates, but died unmarried and left Wolvey to his niece, Georgiana Mary Coape-Arnold (1906-87) and her husband George Edwin Burbidge. Their descendants are the present beneficiaries of the family trust which now owns the estate, and their grandson, Oliver Charles Freeman, is the present occupier of Wolvey Hall.
With 4 photographs and a drawing of Mirables of Isle of Wight; 7 drawings of Ashby Lodge, Northamptonshire; 2 drawings of Wolvey Hall, Hinckley, one drawing of Wolvey Church, and a photograph of Wolvey Church 1867; photograph of Fulham Church; 10 photographs of various views of Hastings; 4 photographs of Battle Abbey; 2 photographs of Bruxelles in 1870; August-October 1872 48 photographs and 39 drawings and watercolours of Cologne, Baden Baden Basle Interlaken, Geneva, Paris, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Lucerne (honeymoon of the Coape-Arnolds?); August 1873 Haddon Hall Peveril Cave and Lichfield Cathedral Deryshire; 11 coloured sketches of Derbyshire including Matlock and The Peak of Castleton, Haddon Hall, Chatsworth, Dovedale; 5 photographs from the Isle of Wight; photograph of Winchester Cathedral, Malvern; Water colour of Malvern Hill and of the Keep at Carisbrooke Castle; sketch of Malvern Priory; water colours of Heavitree House and Church; watercolour view from Ilfracombe Hotel and one of Ilfracombe Harbour; seven watercolours of Bridge of Lyndale, Valley of Rocks, Lynemouth Shore, etc.; 9 architectural photographs; pencil sketch of the Old Wolvey Vicarage signed by Mary G.E. Coape-Arnold (wife of Henry Fraser James); Contemporary engraved portraits of Henry Bishop of London, Rob Nantueil, Giacomo Baron di Wassenaer, Petrus Pomet Aromatarius, Theodorus de Nesmon, J.B. Bossuet, Thomas Comber Dean of Durham, Madeleine de France, David Gloxin (after Peter de Jode (II) and published in around 1650), Johannes Polyander van Kerckhoven, Adolphus Visscher Geboren after Jonas Suyderhoeff (1613-1686) c.1655; Siméon Marotte de Muis 1649; Robertus Iunius Rott. Beroepen 1654; 15 smaller engraved portraits; photographs of Church of our Lady Cambridge and St Johns Priory Bath; sepia litho. plate of Holt Hall; engraving of James Barnett 1818; portrait of the Duke of Gloucester; image of Lewton Hall; 8 anonymous colour sketches; 4 photographs of Halingbury, 4 photographs related to Wolvey Hall including one of speakers and guests at a garden party.
£1,000.00 [ref: 291982]
THE HORNBY GAUGE 0 SYSTEM. New Cavendish Books 1984.
1st Ed. Landscape 4to. 336pp. Over 500 ills. including 423 colour. Original cloth, spine sl. rubbed, sl. rubbed d/w.
Hornby Companion Series.
£45.00 [ref: 287504]
THE HORNBY GAUGE 0 SYSTEM. New Cavendish Books 1994.
Reprint. Landscape 4to. 440pp. Over 700 ills. including 650 colour. Sl. rubbed d/w.
Hornby Companion Series.
£35.00 [ref: 287505]