A number of plans of London’s docks were included in the Bellmans sale, among them the folding, hand coloured and linen mounted Plan of the India & Millwall Docks featured here, which made £780. Issued by the Port of London Authority and dated 1916, the full plan measures 2ft 3in x 2ft 6in (69 x 76cm) and includes such detail as the length, width and depth of the docks and their entrances.
Alice, Tennyson and Port of London plans all played their part in the success of a September 5 sale held by Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium), but the prize lot was something of much greater antiquity.
Bid to £13,500 was a volume, bound in contemporary limp vellum, containing both a 1593, Edinburgh first of John Napier’s A Plaine Discouery of the whole Reuelation of Saint Iohn… and a 1588 edition of then James VI of Scotland’s Fruitfull Meditatioun contening a Plane and Facill Expositoun of [verses] …of the Reuelatioun, in forme of ane sermon.