122 BENNETT (Charles). The Book of Blockheads. 122a With 28 humorous coloured plates by Charles Bennett. Comic Shadows. £1 10s Fifteen humorous coloured plates. Post 8vo, original pictorial boards. Circa 1860. 10s 6d 123 London People: Sketched from Life. A Series of humorous full-page plates and illustrations in the text, with descriptions. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, cloth. London, 1859. 10s 6d 124a The Surprising, Unheard of and Never-to-be-Surpassed Adven tures of Young Munchausen. Illustrated with 12 coloured plates. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original cloth, g. e. £1 10s 125 126 Proverbs with Pictures. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original cloth. London, 1859. 10s 6d Shadow and Substance, by Charles H. Bennett and R. B. Brough. With 30 full-page humorous coloured plates. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine Copy bound by Riviere in full crushed green levant morocco extra, gold lines on sides, gilt back, g. e. London, 1860. £4 15s 127 Shadow and Substance. Another Copy. £2 2s Bennett (Charles)-continued. 128 129 Shadow and Substance. Another Copy. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth, g. e. London, 1860. £1 5s The Stories that Little Breeches Told, and the Pictures which Charles Bennett drew for them. 20 humorous coloured plates, containing numerous sketches. Small 4to, bound in full morocco gilt, with the original cloth covers bound in. London, 1863. 130 BENSON (Arthur Christopher). Alfred Tennyson. £2 10s With eight illustrations. Post 8vo, original cloth. New York, 1907. £1 10s A VERY INTERESTING COPY, HAVING THE WHOLE OF THE FLY-LEAF OCCUPIED WITH A LONG SIGNED NOTE BY THE AUTHOR, IN WHICH HE WRITES: "I WILL SAY NO MORE OF TENNYSON THAN THAT THE MORE I HAVE SEEN OF HIM, THE MORE CAUSE I I COULD NOT BE MISTAKEN IN THE UNIVERSALITY OF HIS HAVE TO THINK HIM GREAT. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1896. £2 15s *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH INSCRIPTION: WITH THE AUTHOR'S COM PLIMENTS. 132 133 134 Le Cahier Jaune Poems. FIRST EDITION. Privately Printed. 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. Monnow: An Ode. £2 2s 4to, original wrappers. Privately Printed. Eton, 1896. £2 10's *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH INSCRIPTION ON FROM THE AUTHOR." 66 COVER: LIONEL JOHNSON The Myrtle Bough: A Vale. Royal 8vo, original wrappers. Privately Printed. £3 10s PRESENTATION COPY TO WATTS DUNTON-INSERTED IS AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, 4 PP., 8vo, DATED DEC. 1, 1903, IN WHICH HE WRITES : MY HEARTFELT SATISFACTION THAT MR. SWINBURNE IS MAKING SO GOOD A RECOVERY FROM SO FIRST EDITION. F'cap. 8vo, original boards, uncut as issued. Only 550 copies printed. £2 10s FIRST EDITION. 4to, original wrappers, uncut. Eton, 1895. £2 2s One of 100 Copies Privately Printed. 137 BENSON (E. F.). A Reaping. FIRST EDITION. Crown 8vo, original cloth, uncut. 10s 6d 138 BENSON (Robert Hugh). A Mystery Play, In Honour of the Nativity of Our Lord. Numerous illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original half binding 12s 6d 139 Poems. Portrait. F'cap. 8vo, original cloth, uncut, t. e. g. London, N.D. 5s 140 BERANCER. Cleanings from Béranger: By Robert Offley Ashburton, Lord Houghton. Printed in red and black on hand-made paper, in French and English. Svo, parchment, gilt top, as issued. Privately Printed, 1889. *** Only 200 copies privately printed. 14s SIR WALTER BESANT. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 141 "A Fountain Sealed." THE SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS NOVEL On 358 pp., 4to. 1897. Preserved in a buckram portfolio. £15 15s Besant (Sir Walter)-continued. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 142 "Camilla's Last String." 143 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (TWICE) OF THIS SHORT STORY, WRITTEN FOR REMINGTON'S MAGAZINE. 20 pp., 4to. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. £3 3s "The Chaplain of the Fleet." THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THIS FAMOUS NOVEL. Bound in 2 vols., 4to, cloth, lettered on back. £32 The original manuscript of one of the most famous and interesting of all Besant's novels. In the writing of it he collaborated with James Rice, but this manuscript is entirely in his hand with the exception of some 27 pages. The MS. contains a large number of author's corrections and additions in the text; and from it the novel was evidently printed. This charming story is full of the romance and pathos of the Fleet marriages in the early part of the 18th Century; also of the gay life of Epsom Wells. It is handled by Besant in a most powerful, descriptive manner, showing him at his very best. SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS NOVEL. Extending to 331 pp., 4to. 1886. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. £12 10s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 145" The Enchanted Island, or the Victorian Transformation." AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS ARTICLE SIGNED IN SEVERAL PLACES. 102 pp., 4to. 1897. Preserved in a buckram portfolio lettered on side. £7 10s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 146" The Equal Woman." AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THE SHORT STORY. On 24 pp., 4to. Preserved in a buckram portfolio lettered on side. 148 149 150 151 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS NOVEL. Comprising 86 pp., 4to and folio. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. £5 5s The original manuscript of this interesting story by Besant, containing a large number of corrections and additions in the text. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. "In Three Weeks." AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THE SHORT STORY. On 16 pp., 4to. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. £3 3s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. "Let Nothing You Dismay." AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS STORY SIGNED IN SEVERAL PLACES. Comprising 202 pp., 4to. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. £10 10s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. "Over the Sea with a Sailor.” AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THIS SHORT STORY WRITTEN BY BESANT IN COLLABORATION WITH JAMES RICE. Comprising some 175 pp., folio and 4to. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. Circa 1879. Written for the Xmas number of "All the Year Round." 1879. £10 10s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. "Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Prophets." THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. Comprising 43 pp., 4to. 1897. Preserved in a buckram portfolio, lettered on side. £6 6s |