WILLIAMS (MONIER, translator) Sakoontala; or the Lost Ring; an Indian Drama, 4to (3)

WILLIAMS (MONIER, translator) Sakoontala; or the Lost Ring; an Indian Drama, colour-printed frontispiece, parts titles, illustrations and decorations engraved by George Measom after T. Sulman, Jun., publisher's pictorial morocco gilt (stamped inside upper cover), decorative endpapers, gauffered gilt edges [McLean VPB, p.92; VPBB, p.57, cloth version), Hertford, Stephen Austin, 1855--LOCKHART (JOHN GIBSON) Ancient Spanish Ballads, new edition, 4 chromolithographed title-pages by Owen Jones, tinted lithographs and illustrations, decorative borders printed in colours, bookplate of Augusta Jane Parkin, contemporary vellum gilt (possibly by Webb of Liverpool), with arabesque 'wheel' design of red, green, brown and black morocco onlays, tooled with stars, dots, stemmed flowers, etc., rebacked neatly preserving original spine (decorated in similar motifs), gilt dentelles, white silk endpapers, gilt gauffered edges, John Murray, 1842--MOORE (THOMAS) Moore's Irish Melodies. Illustrated by D. Maclise, new edition, illustrated with decorative borders throughout, Writers Library bookplate, publisher's green pictorial morocco gilt, g.e., joints neatly refurbished, Longman, Brown, 1851, 4to (3) Footnotes: 'The most lavish of the Oriental illuminated books was Sakoontala... [decorated with] extraordinary richness... the binding of Sakoontala was also remarkable, a rich design blocked in gold on leather; it is one of the few commercial editions to been issued with gauffered edges' (McLean). Another is Lockart and Owen Jones' Ancient Spanish Ballads which is described by McLean as 'a splendid achievement both of illustration and printing, and the clearness of the topography makes it a pleasant one to read'. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing