Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Alistair Bradley Martin

[FINE BINDINGS]
Four finely bound works from the Library of Cortland F. Bishop. Comprising: ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. The Poems... London: Ellis & Elvey, 1904. Two volumes. Full crushed dark green morocco by Riviere, boards decoratively gilt with Grolieresque strapwork, top edge gilt. 8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches (21 x 16.75 cm); Vol. I: xxvii, [1], 227 pp., Vol II: xiii, [3], 246 pp., frontispiece and plates after the author's paintings and designs. Light wear along spines and edges, spines faded brown, bookplate of Cortland F. Bishop to front pastedowns; MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT BARON DE. The Temple of Gnidus; Followed by Cephisa and Cupid, and Arsaces and Ismena. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1899. Limited edition, with two sets of plates, introduction by Octave Uzanne. Crushed blue morocco by Michel Ritter, lavishly gilt tooled and ornamented, top edge gilt, embroidered silk endpapers, silk ribbon. 123 pp., plates. Light wear, spine a bit sunned, bookplate of Cortland F. Bishop; CAYLUS, COMTE DE. Facéties. Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. Limited edition, with a bio-bibliographical introduction by Octave Uzanne. Full crushed red morocco by H. Philippe, gilt ruled and ornamented, top edge gilt, decorative patterned cloth endpapers and flyleaves, original wrappers bound-in. 246 pp., frontispiece, folding plate. Light rubbing to extremities, wear along front joint, front hinge starting, contents with offsetting from frontispiece and faint toning, with the leather booklabels of V. A. Blacque, Henry W. Poor, and Cortland F. Bishop; and [EX ROBERT HOE AND CORTLAND F. BISHOP]. FIELDING, HENRY. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Paris: Fr. Amb. Didot, 1780. 3 volumes only of 4 (incomplete). Full morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With both the Robert Hoe and Cortland Bishop booklabels; Together with ROGERS, SAMUEL. Italy, A Poem [and:] Poems. London: T. Cadell, 1830 and 1834. Two volumes. Uniformly bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for N.J. Bartlett & Co., spines and boards with gilt decorations, spines titled in gilt, top edges gilt, rebacked. With numerous in text illustrations. Wear to leather mostly at spines and edges, sunning to spines, contents lightly toned in the margins. The lot 9 volumes.