8th century BC. A Welby Type socketted axehead with broad collar to the mouth, circumferential band, short blade with crescentic edge, lateral loop; each of the broad faces with a series of short parallel vertical strokes beneath the band; vertical internal ribs; convex cutting edge. Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab.IX, vol.7 Munich, 1981 pl.88 no.1360 336 grams, 15cm (6"). The Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s; collection number AX62; ex DNW sale 10 April 2013 lot 735; found Ramsgate, Kent, before 1980. Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s. Fine condition.
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8th century BC. A Welby Type socketted axehead with broad collar to the mouth, circumferential band, short blade with crescentic edge, lateral loop; each of the broad faces with a series of short parallel vertical strokes beneath the band; vertical internal ribs; convex cutting edge. Cf. Evans, J. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881 item 130; Moore, C.N. & Rowlands, M. Bronze Age Metalwork in Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, 1972 item 51; Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab.IX, vol.7 Munich, 1981 item 1335-54 1637. 268 grams, 10cm (4"). The Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s; collection number AX49; previously in the Sir Richard Ground (1949-2014) Collection, Derbyshire, UK; acquired TimeLine Originals, 2007; previously with Valued History; formerly in the Whitehead Collection; found Yorkshire, UK; accompanied by the TimeLine Originals Certificate of Authenticity and UK Cultural export licence when exported to Bermuda in 2008; and Sir Richard's personal illustrated catalogue sheets which describe the piece fully, give details and circumstances of his acquisition, academic references and general notes. Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s. Fine condition.
Pugin (Welby). Contrasts: Or, A Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buildings of One Present Day..., 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1898, numerous black and white illustrations, some light spotting, later tan quarter calf to marbled boards, spine slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with Gibbs (John), English Gothic Architecture..., 1855, colour half title plus numerous black and white illustrations, some light offsetting and toning, contemporary gilt decorated brown cloth, spine and boards slightly faded, folio, and Talbert (B.J.), Examples of Ancient & Modern Furniture, Metal Works, Tapestries, Decorations, 1876, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor toning, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine and boards slightly marked, and rubbed, folio, plus other 19th century and modern architecture, furniture and art reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
CHAMBERS (Sir William) and Joseph GWILT. A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 1825, 2 vols, small 4to, offsetting of portrait on to title, slight foxing and toning, spines worn; PUGIN (A Welby) The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, London: John Weale 1841, small 4to, plates, slight foxing; others - in Italian and Spanish, general literature, Baedeker guides, etc (condition varies)
* Pugin. A Victorian brass Camera Lucida, with prism, telescopic stem and clamp contemporarily engraved in italic script 'A.W.N. Pugin', 30cm longProvenance: By family repute given to a member of the family who nursed Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). Camera Lucida, an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce an image on a sheet of paper, from which a drawing can be made.(1)£500-800
A large impressive Edwardian silver Monteith, by Daniel & John Welby, London 1905, decorated panels of figures representing the five continents and crest, with pair of lion mask handles and detachable shaped rim, 33cm diameter, 2985g, on large ebonised stand. Condition Report: One dent to side, some surface scratching to inner bowl commensurate with use, hallmarks clear.
ORIGINAL DESIGNS FOR STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Hardman (John & Co., Birmingham and London) Nine pen and ink and watercolour drawings, some dated, the earliest 1919, the latest 1948, most 1920s/30s. Various sizes, tallest sheet 520mm, smallest dimensions 120 x 70mm. Featuring the Holy Family, angels, Biblical scenes, and Saints, including Augustine with Gregory and Ambrose above, set into an arrangement of three rectangular windows (1926). Includes a memorial window for Brownedge church to John Southworth (1592-1654),Catholic priest and martyr, alongside Margaret Ward. Other Saints represented are Dorcas and Alban. One busy single lancet window for Toronto Church (1928) exhibiting a plethora of saints and other figures (each captioned to margin), and is inscribed to base lights: 'In Honoured Memory of Augustus Stephen Vogt, Mus. Doc. Founder of the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto And Its Conductor From 1894 to 1917… Died 1926'. Another is a design for Mark Cross Convent. Three mounted on brown card stock, the others on stiff cartridge paper, some with the Hardman studio lozenge label and reference numbers to recto or verso. Mss. captions, annotations and corrections to margins of the larger drawings (in one case doodles of some faces). Some marginal soiling and staining, the colour unfaded and enhancing the skilled draughtsmanship. An attractive set of working designs from the celebrated family firm of manufacturers of ecclesiastical furnishings; the founder John Hardman (1811-1867) was most famously associated with the pioneer Gothic architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (9).
Lewis (Matthew Gregory). Tales of Wonder, 2 volumes bound in one, 1st edition, published for the author, 1801, continuous pagination, errata printed at end of contents leaves, ownership signature of William Earle Welby to title with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary half calf gilt, heavily rubbed, large 8vo, together with Johnson (James), Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation..., 1841, armorial bookplate of Lord Farnham offset to front endpaper, contemporary half calf, gilt-decorated spine, a little rubbed, plus Parry (Edward Abbott, editor), Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54, 4th edition, 1888, portrait frontispiece and 1 other portrait plate (both slightly offset), contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, both 8vo, plus 4 other miscellaneous leather-bound English antiquarian, mainly from Denton Manor (7)
Collection of letters from artists, architects etc., most autograph and signed, and many to fellow artists or on art-related subjects, some mounted on trimmed album leaves: Sir John Gilbert to [Elhanan] Bicknell, '1853' (and another complaining about the quality of a reproduction, '1872'), C.L. Eastlake (regarding tickets for an RA event, 1852), Henry Holiday (2, one relating to work on a mosaic), James Grant, Richard Redgrave (2), Francis Grant (2), Val Prinsep, Annie Cobden-Sanderson, Walter Crane (1905, small tape-stain), Marcus Stone, Calcott Horsley (2, one a note handing over the portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury), Edward J. Poynter (2), Edward Welby Pugin (ALS and LS referring to the Ushaw roof, 1856), Sir Charles Barry (1888), James Sant (2), James D. Linton (to Courbould on the affairs of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1888), Edward Burne-Jones (4 pp. ('E.B-J.', to 'Stan' inviting him to Rottingdean, with a separate full signature), Henry Phillips, William Edward Frost (2, one to E.W. Cooke), Mary Ann Flaxman (1828), Frederick Leighton, Frank Holl, M.W. Ridley, W.W. Ouless, Briton Riviere, John Pettie, H.H. Armistead, Edwin Long, John Evan Hodgson (on Royal Academy business), John Gibson, Henry Sharpe, Richard Ansdell, T.S. Cooper, Linley Sambourne, Alfred Elmore, George Richmond, Walter Thornbury, Harry Furniss, William Etty (to Pickersgill), John Everett Millais, Daniel Maclise, Philip Calderon, W[illiam] B[ell] Scott (inits. reiterating his assertion that Watts had not written a controversial review in the Athenaeum), William Wetmore Story (sending Stale-Mate and commenting on errors in the first publication, 1884), Richard Doyle (to Spedding, damp-stained), Edwin Landseer (2 - 'On the 19th the friends of Dickens (Boz) give him a Dinner at Greenwich ...'), and others. Also included is a group of letters to Solomon Alexander Hart, largely on Royal Academy business, from Daniel Maclise, James Sant, C.W. Cope, Richard Partridge, John Knight, Richard Redgrave, Henrietta Ward, Eyre Crowe, Sydney Smirke, George Richmond; also KEATE (George) Epistle to Angelica Kauffmann, 4to, printed London 1781, disbound.
Watercolours, by Adrian Bury - study of trees; and three other landscapes; watercolours by Cecil Welby - Norburt Church; two other church scenes; and a Highland landscape; an oil painting, by J.C. Madgin - "Beech Gold", signed and dated 1979, inscribed verso; a watercolour, by Belinda Deringhton - view of a cottage, signed and dated 1996; together with three other watercolours; and two drawings of houses. (17)
Published 1828 AD. J. Britton, London, first edition, Pugin and Le Keux's Specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, engraved title, 80 engraved plates (some coloured), 2pp list of plates, title, viii and xx prefaces, 40pp text]; bound in original cloth (part loss to spine); some plates unnumbered and marked 'proof' and general plate numbering not in accordance with the List of Subjects; several plates double page. 1.57 kg, 29 x 24cm (11 1/2 x 9 1/2"). Property of a Kent collector; by inheritance. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852 Ad). was an architect in the Gothic Revival style and his career culminated with the design of the Palace of Westminster, London, including Big Ben, after the fire of 1834; he also designed buildings in Ireland and Australia; this work, with drawings by Pugin and engraved by Le Keux, was influential on his later designs. [No Reserve]
A VICTORIAN SILVER TWO HANDLED BASIN with scrolling handles and four shell decorated feet, 20cm wide, London 1839 by Richard Pearce & George Burrows; and a late Victorian silver vase with a wrythen lower body, matching foot and further leaf decoration, 22cm high, London 1895 by Daniel & John Welby, 19.7 troy oz (2)
A mixed lot of silver items, various dates and maker, comprising: a brandy pan and burner, by D and J Welby, London 1910, two bowls, a cased spoon, a cased fork and spoon, a cased pair of salt cellars, a sugar spoon with a trusty servant finial, a sifting spoon, five napkin rings, a mustard pot, two knives and a spoon, approx. weighable 27oz. (qty)
PUGIN (A Welby)The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, thirty-six plates, 8vo, London: Charles Dolman, 1843, original cloth (rebacked), scattered foxing; together with Pugin's Ornaments of the XVth and XVIth Centuries, 4to, Ackermann: 1837, twenty-six engraved plates, a.e.g., half morocco, foxing and spotting throughout (2)
A Minton's Pottery vase probably designed by A W N Pugin, footed, pear-shaped form, printed and painted, with foliate panels and inscription to neck, in shades of blue highlighted in gilt, unmarked 23cm. high Literature Floriated Ornament Designed by A Welby Pugin, a similar vase illustrated on the cover. Creating a Gothic Paradise Pugin at the Antipodes page 18 catalogue number D.27 this quattrolobed design used on a Paten, 1847.
Sharp (Samuel). Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country, in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an admonishen to gentlemen who pass the Alps in their tour through Italy, 2nd edition, 1767, iv + 315 pages, contemporary signature of W. Welby to head of title, bookplate of Sir William Earle Welby Bart to front pastedown, contemporary mottled full calf, rubbed and slight wear to joints and edges, 8vo, together with Genard (Francois), The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, a key to the satyrical characters interspersed in this work, 3rd edition, printed for Lockyer Davis, 1753, without advert leaf at front, xxiv + 304, + 8 page table of contents at end, lacks advert leaf at front (A1), contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear, with joints cracked, 12mo, plus [Bellegarde, Abb‚ de]. Reflexions Upon Ridicule; or, What it is that makes a man ridiculous and the means to avoid it, printed for Tho. Newborough, D. Midwinter and Benj. Tooke, 1707, [xvi] + 390 + 18 pages of index, light waterstain to upper margins throughout, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind-panelled full calf, later reback, 8vo Ex libris Denton Manor library, Lincolnshire. (3)
[Wright, Abraham, editor]. Parnassus Biceps. Or, Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry, composed by the best wits that were in both the Universities before their dissolution. With an epistle in the behalfe of those now doubly secluded and sequestred members, by one who himselfe is none, 1st edition, printed for George Eversden, St. Pauls Church-yard, 1656, [xvi] + 163 pages, one or two marks and short closed tears, early ink name to head of title of Benjamin Welby, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rubbed and some wear, later reback with lower outer corners repaired, 12mo Ex libris Denton Manor library, Lincolnshire. ESTC R204146. A scarce anthology of verse by royalist members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, including John Donne, Henry King, John Earle, William Lewis, John Wotton, John Cleveland (To the Memory of Ben Johnson), amongst others. (1)
Pugin (Augustus Welby). Historical and Descriptive Essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy edited by John Britton, the subjects measured and drawn by Augustus Pugin and engraved by John and Henry Le Keux, additional engraved title and 72 engraved plates by J. & H. Le Keux after Augustus Pugin, including 2 hand-coloured plates of stained glass, some light scattered spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed to joints and edges, 4to, together with Wightwick (George). The Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History, 1st edition, James Fraser, 1840, engraved plates and illustrations to text, all edges gilt, original red full morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, with slight fraying to head of spine, and some discolouration to board edges, 4to, plus Pugin (Augustus). Paris and Its Environs, displayed in a series of picturesque views, Robert Jennings, 1829, numerous engraved views, printed two to a leaf, contemporary plain cloth, a little rubbed and faded to spine and board edges, 4to, and other architecture interest, including W. Eden Nesfield, Specimens of Medieval Architecture, 1862, Benjamin Ferrey, Recollections of A.N. Welby Pugin, and His Father, Augustus Pugin, 1861, John Major Brindley, Church Work in Birmingham, 1880, George Gilbert Scott, Personal and Professional Recollections, 1879, T. Raffles Davison, The Arts Connected with Building, Lectures on Craftsmanship and Design by R. W. Schultz, C.F.A. Voysey, Batsford, 1909, Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2 volumes, 2001, etc., 4to/8vo (20)
The Archbishop's father [WELBY JUSTIN]: (1956- ) Archbishop of Canterbury 2013- . MONTAGUE BROWNE ANTHONY (1923-2013) British Diplomat, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill 1955-65. Montague Browne, whilst working for Churchill, conducted an affair with Jane Portal, one of Churchill's personal secretaries, from 1949-55. Recent DNA tests have revealed that Montague Browne was the biological father of her son, Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury. T.L.S., Anthony Montague Browne, one page, 8vo, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo (although on the printed stationery of Hyde Park Gate, London), 8th October 1960, to Dennis Wheatley. Montague Browne thanks his correspondent for their letter, which he has shown to Winston Churchill, and continues 'He is complimented by your suggestion and would be happy that you should dedicate your book to him in the terms you suggest'. Accompanied by the original envelope. A letter of interesting association. VG Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) English Author of thriller and occult novels. The first part of Wheatley's autobiography was entitled Saturdays with Bricks (1961) and was dedicated to fellow bricklaying enthusiast Winston Churchill.

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