Herbert Salisbury Squance (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Miss Mackerell Skye: a fairy tale for young and old. Herbert S. Squance. With illustrations by A. D. McCormick. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1894. 8vo. First edition. The first and only edition of presumably Herbert Salisbury Squance's only work, a fairy tale with excellent illustrations by McCormick. Squance was a chartered accountant according to censuses and thus writing must have been a pastime taken up freely. This copy inscribed by the author in 1918 to Mary Drummond, an author herself. Squander died in 1922, aged 55. A near fine volume, the red pictorial cloth bright and colourful, the spine a trifle faded. The binding tight and square, the contents usually fine with some toning and occasional marks, but all four plates present and clean. Inscription from the author to front endpaper. An excellent, well-preserved example. Scarce, but especially so in this condition and with the inscription. Signed by Author(s).

Fine Binding. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce collection of Thomas Coke Squance's poetry. Edited by Herbert Salisbury Squance, his son. Printed for private circulation. In a beautiful Zaehnsdorf binding, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. Illustrated, with a frontispiece of Squance. Limited edition, one of 150 copies printed, each numbered as issued. This is number two of one-hundred and fifty and is signed by the author. This is the editor's copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. The London Gazette of 1935 lists Squance as a Lieutenant-Commander to Commander in the Royal Navy. Thomas Coke Squance was a British pathologist, antiquarian and naturalist. His medical career was spent in Sunderland as a Consulting Physician to Sunderland Royal Infirmary. A scarce poetry collection by an interesting figure. In a full morocco binding with gilt stamping to the spine. Light shelfwear to the head and tail of spine and rubbing to the joints. Small loss to the head of spine. Fading to the spine. A few marks to boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Herbert S Squance. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spots to pages. Very Good Indeed. book.