Lot 65: - Henry William Batley (1846 - 1932) , A bureau bookcase

circa 1875 ebonised mahogany, painted overall with stylised floral devices, the galleried pediment above an arrangement of shelves and eight drawers between turned supports, the fall front above a pair of cupboard doors and further turned supports

measurements 191cm. high by 103cm. wide by 48cm. deep; alternate measurements 6ft 3 1/4 in., 3ft 4 1/2 in., 1ft 7in.

PROPERTY OF RICHARD DENNIS ESQ
A drawing of a similar bureau bookcase is in the collection of the Westminster City Archive, London. H. W. Batley was described by Lewis F. Day in the Art Journal of 1887 as a pupil of Bruce Talbert's, but Batley's work has a more pronounced Oriental influence. He gathered ten years' work on interior design into his Series of Studies for Domestic Furniture and Decoration, published in 1883. He designed furniture for the cabinetmakers James Shoolbred & Co. and Collinson & Lock.