Five assorted folio volumes, including Owen Jones: 'The Psal...

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£70 - £100

Five assorted folio volumes, including Owen Jones: 'The Psalms of David Illuminated', [London: Day & Son, 1861], chromolithograph ornamental and printed titles, dedication on two pages, and 50 thick card chromolithograph leaves illuminated in gold and colours (complete), a/f, internal reinforcement to margins of 11 leaves, some just affecting plates, several leaves detached, folio, original relievo leather (very worn, lacks backstrip, upper board detached but present), front cover embossed with the words "The Victoria Psalter"; together with 'The Book of Beauty (Late Victorian Era) A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic, and Musical Contributions By Men and Women of the Day', edited Mrs F. Harcourt Williamson, London, Hutchinson, 1896, second edition deluxe, limited edition, No.13 of 100 copies, signed by the publisher, xii,194pp, 93 photogravures & illustrations, list of subscribers to rear, Artists reproduced include John Everett Millais, Lord Leighton, Edward Hughes, W B Richmond, James McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent etc, literary contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Hall Caine, Theodore Watts-Dunton, George Moore, Israel Zangwill, Wilfrid Blunt etc, large folio (41 x 33cm), original cloth gilt (slightly worn/rubbed), rebacked retaining majority of orig. backstrip; an oblong folio album of manuscript humorous well executed pen & ink drawings c.1974, presented to Douglas Shepherd (1922-1989), architect and designer for the Ind Coope Brewery and a member of the Art Workers’ Guild, presumably on his retirement, 9 leaves of manuscript pen & ink drawings/calligraphy, plus 2 pages of tipped in signatures at end, contemporary cloth backed boards (33 x 41cm). Shepherd was responsible for several pub interiors during the 1970s which reflected the style of renowned artist and designer William Morris, and collected silver by Omar Ramsden, Robert Ashbee and Archibald Knox between 1950s and 1970s; plus 2 others on fin de siecle German poster art and Japanese prints (5)