HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL) The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845 [-1846 & 1850], 3 vol., ...

HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL) The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845, a few neat manuscript infills (1870s) on a couple of leaves, publisher's gilt-blocked white boards, the upper cover hand-coloured [Ball, p.149], [1844]; The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1846, publisher's white morocco, the upper cover blocked in gilt, red and blue, the same design in blind on lower cover, [1845]; The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1850, spotting and foxing to opening leaves, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, recased with neat repairs to spine ends, 1850, introductions printed in black and red, other leaves chromolithographed on stiff card, printed by Owen Jones [cf. McLean VBD, p.88, 92 & 99], Longman & Co.--Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart Selected from the Ms. in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris... by H.N. Humphries, 2 vol., 72 chromolithographed plates, bookplate of William Charles Smith, contemporary red morocco by J. Wright (stamped inside upper covers), sides with elaborately tooled borders, green and brown gilt morocco spine labels (small scuff mark to one), William Smith, 1845; Ten Centuries of Art. Its Progress in Europe, 12 plates (of which 10 chromolithographed), tissue guards, publisher's cloth gilt, Grant and Griffith, 1852, g.e., folio (6) Footnotes: Humphreys 'is deservedly remembered for his extensive and significant contribution to the commercially produced book. His interest in architectural colour carried over into colour printing and the design of book covers, for which he exploited many techniques and materials' (ODNB). 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