Search Results: Titles starting with W from Sky Duthie Rare Books

[Original artwork], [c.1920]. Original pencil and watercolour depicting a young woman standing before a town within a stylised landscape. Signed "John Austen" to the foot. The image measuring 17 x 22cm. Framed and glazed (32.5 x 39.5cm in total). The watercolour is in very good condition, remaining clean and bright, with just a slight ripple to the paper. There are a few small scratches to the edges of the frame, otherwise this is also in very good order. A delicate watercolour by the celebrated British artist and illustrator John Austen (1886-1948) in his distinctive Art Deco style. The present watercolour was likely produced as an illustration for a book, although we have not yet managed to identify which publication. A lovely example of Austen's work.

London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1879.. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 further black and white full-page wood-engraved plates. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink to the front free endpaper. 356pp. A good copy, the binding secure although with some cracking in places and a couple of small marks to the lower board. The contents a little shaken with the final gathering slightly loose and with foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock are otherwise in good order. An uncommon novel set in Algeria during the period of Emir Abdelkader's leadership of the struggle against French colonialism, by the author and traveller Charles Henry Eden (1839-1900), best known for his writings regarding his life and experiences in Queensland, Australia.LibraryHub records four institutional copies in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Nat. Lib. Scotland).… Read More

[Original manuscript]., 1756.. Single folded sheet (32 x 19.5cm). Printed text with blank sections completed in ink manuscript for the sailor Monmouth Allington "formerly of Beckles in Suffolk but now belonging to His Majesty's Ship Rainbow" on 26th June 1756. Elaborate printed coat of arms and naval crest to the head. Signed by Allington with an 'X' to the foot, alongside the signatures of the witnesses, Sir Joseph Knight and Peter Thomas Crooke. Remnants of official red wax seal to the foot. The document with four horizontal fold lines, one with a 6cm split to the left-hand side, a small chip to the right-hand side, just touching the text, and a little creasing is otherwise in good order. A will completed by the sailor Monmouth Allington prior to his service aboard the British ship HMS Rainbow in which he leaves all of his "Worldly Estate" to his sister Mary Allington, now Mary Don, once his body has been "commit[ted] to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God".HMS Rainbow was a 44-gun fifth rate… Read More