Richard (1735) Gough Sold at Auction Prices

Gough, Richard:

Gough, Richard: British Topography (2 vols.). Payne, 1780, 1st. Edn. With 9 folding Maps & Plates. 4to. Later half leather over marbled boards, little rubbed. (2)

[Gough (Richard)] A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1777; bound with 10 others by or attributed to Gough, together 11 works in 1 vol.

[Gough (Richard)] A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, folding engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette and illustration, frontispiece with some surface soiling, [Maslen & Lancaster Bowyer Ledgers, 5135], W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1777, bound with An Essay on the Rise and Progress of Geography in Great-Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with Specimens of our Oldest Maps, 10 folding engraved plates, lacking L4, J. Nichols, 1780, bound with Conjectures on an Antient Tomb in Salisbury Cathedral, folding engraved plate, woodcut tail-piece, 1773, bound with Observations on Fonts in England, 11 engraved plates (1 folding), plates with ink inscription to upper margin, final leaf soiled and defective at head, not affecting text, [c.1790], with 7 others by or attributed to Gough, together 11 works in 1 vol., bookplates of John G. Tolhurst and Prinkash Monastery, several works with drop-head titles, some offsetting, occasional browning and light spotting, some light damp-staining to head, affecting a few plates, later plum half-morocco, spine gilt, quite worn, upper joint split at head, t.e.g., 4to.

Britain.- Gough (Richard) British Topography..., 2 vol., first edition, 1780.

NO RESERVE Britain.- [Gough (Richard)] British Topography..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved title vignettes, 7 folding engraved maps and large map (plate 8) in 3 parts, bookplate of George Gallwey Mills, contemporary russia, rubbed, spines worn, joints split, covers of vol.1 detached, 4to, T.Payne & Son, and J.Nichols, 1780.

[GOUGH, Richard (1735-1809)]. An Account of a Rich Illuminated Missal executed for John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France under Henry VI. And afterwards in the Possession of The Late Duchess of Portland. London: J. Nichols for T. Payne, 1794. 4υo (259 x 204 mm). Four engraved plates reproducing miniatures and text. (Some foxing.) 19th-century green half calf (rebacked). Provenance: manuscript corrections in text of some of the corrigenda; Sir William Lee and the Rev. Sir George Lee, Hartwell Library (armorial bookplates); W. Wilson (1828 inscription noting the date of binding); S.D.R. (1896 inscription on front free endpaper); acquired from Hurst & Hurst, 1982. FIRST EDITION of the most comprehensive description of the Bedford Hours to date, and only the third English monograph on an illuminated manuscript. James Edwards (1757-1811) acquired the Bedford Missal at the Duchess of Portland's sale in 1786 for £213.3. "[It] was purchased at his sale by the Marquis of Blandford, afterwards Duke of Marlborough, for six hundred and eighty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings. It is now in the British Museum" (Fletcher, English Book Collectors, p. 299). Brunet II, no.1678; Lowndes II, p. 920.

GOUGH, Richard (1735-1809). An Account of a Rich Illuminated Missal executed for John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France under Henry VI. And afterwards in the Possession of The Late Duchess of Portland. London: J.Nichols for T.Payne, 1794.

4o (265 x 205mm). Including engraved facsimile text plate, THREE ILLUMINATED MINIATURES ON VELLUM each with corresponding etched version, all by John Edwards after the Bedford missal (occasional light spotting). Early 19th-century claret velvet, cream watered-silk doublures and endleaves, gilt edges, purple watered-silk chemise and slipcase, gilt leather lettering piece on slipcase (extremities of slipcase and chemise a little discoloured and frayed). Provenance: Library of William Foyle, sale these rooms 11 July 2000, lot 94. A FINE, ATTRACTIVE AND RARE COPY of the most comprehensive description of the Bedford Hours to date. The rich and detailed illuminations by John Edwards (d.1793) were copied directly from the Missal, which his brother James Edwards, the Pall Mall bookseller, acquired at the Duchess of Portland's sale in 1786. Lowndes II, p. 920; Brunet II, no.1678.