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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. HARDBACK original quarter-cloth with paper covered boards gilt lettering on front and spine pictorial dust-jacket - spine and cover margins lightly faded not price-clipped frontispiece pages: xlvi 280 illus. ii plates iv 172mm x 240mm (6.75 x 9.5") former owner's details on front end-paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 103 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt On Dark Blue.#78 Of 500 Copies Of A Limited Edition, Of Which 450 Copies For Sale. Very Near Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Ends Of Spine. Small 1920'S Label Of An Australian Bookseller At Bottom Of Front Pastedown. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Rather age-toned. With introduction and notes by H.S. Vaughan, a few illustrations, octavo, pp lii, 219, edges foxed, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly age-toned dustwrapper which is very browned on its spine. [George Walker (died 1777) was an English privateer active against French shipping. In 1744, when war broke out with France as part of the War of the Austrian Succession, he was offered the command of the Mars, a private ship of war of 26 guns, to cruise in company with another, the Boscawen, somewhat larger and belonging to the same owner. They sailed from Dartmouth in November, and on one of the first days of January 1744 fell in with two homeward-bound French ships of the line, which captured the Mars after the Boscawen had hurriedly deserted her. Walker was sent as a prisoner on board the Fleuron. On 6 January the two ships and their prize were sighted by an English squadron of four ships of the line, which separated and drew off without bringing them to action. On returning to England Walker was put in command of the Boscawen, and sent out in company with the Mars, which had been recaptured and bought by her former owners. The two cruised with little success during the year, and, coming into the English Channel in December, the Boscawen, a weakly built ship, iron-fastened, almost fell to pieces; Walker managed run it ashore at St Ives on the north Cornish coast on 24 November 1745. He was almost immediately offered a larger command. This was a squadron of four ships - King George, Prince Frederick, Duke, and Princess Amelia - known collectively as the "Royal Family". In the summer of 1745, off Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, it had made a very rich prize; the ships were consequently well manned. The Royal Family continued cruising, with moderate success, to the end of the war with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Altogether, the prizes taken by the Royal Family under Walker's command were valued at about £400,000.].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original beige cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 11'' x 9''. Contains [v]-2, 49 pp + 50 plates mounted on grey card stock, each preceded by a page of descriptive text, folding map at rear. Book plate of the Oliver Collection, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Library to the front end papers, light spotting to the closed text block edges and in Very Good clean and bright condition. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the United Kingdom. Member of the P.B.F.A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Number 183 of 500 copies with signature of publisher. Presentation copy inscribed by Walker to the journalist J. M Bulloch: "To J.M. Bulloch witht e regards of the pubisher and editor R.A. Walker 7 January 1925." An autograph letter from Walker to Bulloch is pasted dow to the rear endpaper and Bulloch's review of the book is affixed to the front endpaper. It is appropriate that Bulloch reviewed this book as he had promoted Beadsley's work in the 1890s. The main text is a lecture by A.W. King, a friend and tutor of Beardsley. He orignially delivered the lecture at the Blackburn Technical Institute where he the position of secretary. The book also icludes 15 full page sketches and copies of about 16 letters from Beardsley, many of which included smaller sketches. All of the letters and sketches had been in the possession of A.W. King and had never before been published. Several of the letters are of noteable content, one which tells of his first visit in 1891 to see the influential artist Edward Burne-Jones, and another describes his development of a new drawing style. Near fine in original light blue cloth boards with black and gilt leather title label to spine. Slight browning to spine and minor wear to spine ends. Light offsetting to front endpapers from inserted review, else very clean. An interesting association copy. Measures 7.25 x 9.50 inches. 103 pages. ART123109. Signed.