Four Day Auction of Northern Art, Asian Art, Decorative Arts and Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music with Furniture & Interiors(#202) 11/05/2021 10:00 AM GMT+1 CLOSED Auction Information Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Oils Bronze and Other Sculptures Books Furniture: Traditional Ceramics Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Plated Items Textiles Clocks: Wall Clocks Furniture: Reproduction Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Watercolours Collectors' Items Ephemera Garden and Architectural Doulton Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Coins Sporting Clocks: Mantel clocks Furniture: Mirrors Scientific Instruments Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Prints Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Carpets & Rugs Beswick Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Ethnic & Tribal Art Militaria Clocks: Carriage Clocks Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Glass Pictures: Traditional Oils Jewellery Taxidermy Lighting Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Antiquities & Ancient Artefacts Metalware Barometers Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Ceramic Figures Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Silver Toys & Games: Toys Clocks: Longcase Clocks Decorative Arts Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-43 of 43. View Lot 3166 KINGSLEY (C), THE WATER BABIES, first American edition, with full page colour plates by Anne Anderson as per list, pictorial end papers, blue cloth with mounted illustration, Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York [1924]; LONGFELLOW (S), THE GOLDEN LEGEND, with tipped in colour plates by Sidney Maynard, brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, Hodder & Stoughton (2) Estimate£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Condition ReportWater Babies Pages with general age wear browning internally, bottom corner of some of the early pages with small damp mark nothing serious. Internally ok. Blue cloth with some rubbing and wear to the top and bottom of the spine lesser so for the edges of the spine and corners. Pictorial paste down with some light surface wear but generally fair. Gilt lettering to spine slightly rubbed. Longfellow Internally with general light age wear browning to pages but otherwise clean and bright. Cloth binding with light rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine and corners but generally ok. View details Estimate£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 3167 TILLE (PROF), LITTLE TOM, illustrated by O. Stafl, full page colour plates and text illustrations, pictorial end papers, pictorial front board with cloth spine, B Koci, Prague, Czechslovakia, 1922; No 2 from The German Picture Book Series, SCHOLZ KUNSTLER = BILDERBUCHER, with colour plates and text illustrations, pictorial end papers and front board, cloth spine, c1904; SCHLOTTER (B), illus, DORNROSCHEN (SLEEPING BEAUTY), colour illustrations and pictorial front board, Mainz (3) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3168 KING (JESSIE M), illus, A CAROL: GOOD KING WENCESLAS, 2nd issue, with fourteen tipped in plates including title, two music plates and illustrations, grey art paper pages and soft cover, front cover with mounted illustration, Leopold B. Hill, [1920] (1) Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED Condition ReportFront cover with a splash mark to the top, and a much feinter splash mark to the bottom. Mounted title to the centre lightly grubby. A few other light marks here and there. Spine with three small nicks. Internally with odd speck mark here and there, corners lightly bent but generally ok. With loose booksellers price and book notes tucked in for Jonkers Rare Books at 525 View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED Lot 3169 KINGSLEY (C), THE HEROES, illustrated by Jessie M King, green cloth George Routledge; FITZGERALD (E), THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, illustrated by Willy Pogany, with tipped in colour plates as per list and other mounted gilt plates as part of the text illustrations, George Harrap, 1930; a smaller copy of the Rubaiyat illustrated by Pogany, George Harrap, 1934; THE MARGARET TARRANT STORY BOOK, with full page plates as per list, Collins, 1947; FRANCE (A), BEE THE PRINCESS OF THE DWARFS, retold by Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 3170 KATO (N), JAPANESE FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS, illustrated by Harry Theaker, with full page colour plates as per list and other illustrations, pictorial paper mounted boards with cloth spine, Raphael Tuck & Sons; PENZER (N), NALA & DAMAYANTI, limited edition, 7239/1000, illustrated by P. Zenker, colour plates, cloth boards with parchment spine, London, Philpot, 1926; FITZGERALD (E), RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, illustrated by Sarkis Katchadourian, full page colour plates and other illustrations, Gross Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Lot 3171 FITZGERALD (E), THE GOLDEN COCKEREL RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, limited edition, No 1/30, introduction by Charles Ganz and line engravings by John Buckland-Wright, with eight mounted plates, five engraved plates and eight facsimile Monk-Latin text pages bound at the end, full leather, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938 (1) Estimate£300 - £500Winning Bid£960StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally with some odd foxing or speck marks here and there, end papers with shadow browning at the edge from the fold-over of the leather. Generally, internally ok. Binding with some faint spot marks but these are not immediately noticeable and generally appears good. There is no slip case. View details Estimate£300 - £500Winning Bid£960StatusCLOSED Lot 3172 MILLER (P), WOMAN IN DETAIL, limited edition, 465/550, illustrated by Mark Severin, ¼ blue cloth with paper covered boards, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947; ANDREYES (L), ABYSS, limited edition, 166/500, ¼ cloth with maroon boards, ex-libris plate for Mary Smith paste down to the back of the front board. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929; WALPOLE (H), THE APPLE TREES, signed by Hugh Walpole to the half title, with engravings by Lynton Lamb, ex-libris plate for Thorsten Sjolin paste down to the fro Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED Lot 3173 BIANCO (M), THE SKIN HORSE, first edition, illustrated by Pamela Bianco, with d.j, pictorial boards, New York, George H Doran, 1927; THE MOST PLEASANT AND DELECTABLE TALE OF THE MARRIAGE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, illustrated by Dorothy Mullock, with tipped in plates, front end papers additionally decorated with an all over pattern in ink and inscribed from Leonardo 1926, non-original illustrations pasted down at front and back, Chatto & Windus, 1914; KETTELWELL (J), THE STORY OF ALADDIN AND THE WON Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 3174 A collection of illustrated books comprising; NORTON (M), THE BORROWERS AFIELD, d.j, London, Dent, 1955; POEMS OF SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON, Phoenix Publishing; LITTLE TALES TO READ AND TELL, Gresham Publishing; ENGLISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION 1800 1900; King Penguin, 1947; PERCY (W), LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE, Alfred Knopf, 1945; ELLISON (N), OUT OF DOORS WIOTH NOMAD, University of London Press, 1947; UTTLEY (A), PLOWMENS CLOCKS, first edition, illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe, d.j., Faber & Faber, 1952; DAR Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Lot 3175 CHARLOTTE, EMILY & ANNE BRONTE, THE NOVELS, ten vols, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, believed to be the first book commission for the illustrator, comprising Jane Eyre, Shirley, The Professor, Villette, Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights, white cloth with gilt titles, Dutton & Co, New York, 1905 (10) Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Condition ReportLoose booksellers price and book notes placed into one volume for Jonkers Rare Books with a price of 750. All with browning to the end papers and all with some foxing here and there. Villette V1 front gutter and webbing open and spine panel loose from page gatherings. Vilette V2 paper at front and back gutters split. Wuthering Heights paper open at front gutter split back gutter with repair tab. Jayne Eyre Paper at front gutter split. The Professor Paper at front gutter split. Wildfell Hall V2 front gutter paper and webbing mostly open with spine panel loose from page gatherings. All covers with some rubbing to the top and bottom of the spines etc but overall an ok set. Loose booksellers price and book notes placed into one volume for Jonkers Rare Books with a price of 750. All with browning to the end papers and all with some foxing here and there. Villette V1 front gutter and webbing open and spine panel loose from page gatherings. Vilette V2 paper at front and back gutters split. Wuthering Heights paper open at front gutter split back gutter with repair tab. Jayne Eyre Paper at front gutter split. The Professor Paper at front gutter split. Wildfell Hall V2 front gutter paper and webbing mostly open with spine panel loose from page gatherings. All covers with some rubbing to the top and bottom of the spines etc but overall an ok set. Loose booksellers price and book notes placed into one volume for Jonkers Rare Books with a price of 750. All with browning to the end papers and all with some foxing here and there. Villette V1 front gutter and webbing open and spine panel loose from page gatherings. Vilette V2 paper at front and back gutters split. Wuthering Heights paper open at front gutter split back gutter with repair tab. Jayne Eyre Paper at front gutter split. The Professor Paper at front gutter split. Wildfell Hall V2 front gutter paper and webbing mostly open with spine panel loose from page gatherings. All covers with some rubbing to the top and bottom of the spines etc but overall an ok set. View details Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Lot 3176 MACLAUCHLAN (T), THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, HIGHLAND CLANS AND HIGHLAND REGIMENTS, eight vols, with tartan plates and black and white engravings, embossed red cloth, Fullarton (8) Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 3177 A collection of six illustrated books comprising; LE CAIN (E), illus, THE LITTLE DOG OF FO, d.j., Faber & Faber, 1976; SVENDSEN (DR E), THE STORY OF DUSTY THE LITTLE ETHIOPIAN DONKEY, 1966; LE CAIN (E), illus, A SCHOOL BEWITCHED, Blackie, 1985; LE CAIN (E), illus, THE CABBAGE PRINCESS, Faber & Faber, 1969; LE CAIN (E), illus, CHRISTMAS 1993 OR SANTAS LAST RIDE, d.j., Faber & Faber, 1987; BROWNING (R), THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLEM, Dean & Son, 1969; with five books illustrated by Christian Birmingha Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3178 MARTIN (F), NEWHAVEN DIEPPE, Recollection and some history of the town of Dieppe, limited edition, 169/320, signed by Frank Martin, Previous Parrot Press, 1966; HOLME (C), THE GEISHA, The Studio, PAUL (H), illus, THE HAPPY PRINCE, a talking book with vinyl LP at the end, adapted from Oscar Wildes fairy tale, Horace Marshall & Sons; ITA (S), FRANKENSTEIN, a pop-up book, Sterling Publishing, 2010 (4) Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 3179 POGANY (E), trans, THE GOLDEN COCKEREL, with colour and black and white illustrations, d.j, gilt red cloth, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938 Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPages perhaps with light age wear browning but generally internally clean and bright. Cloth binding with slight speckling along the spine and light wear to the bottom of the spine. Dust jacket with slight loss to the star of the price, perhaps a slight surface scratch to front cover, some light rubbing to edges and corners, otherwise good. View details Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 3180 HARDY (T), THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, limited edition, of 1500, 500 for the UK and 1000 for the USA, signed by the illustrator Clare Leighton, with tipped in plates complete as per list and text illustrations, 1/4 leather with patterned boards, Macmillan and Co, 1929 (1) Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally with general light page browning, perhaps an odd spot mark here and there but generally clean and bright. Plates ok. End papers with some browning and foxing. Edges of boards rubbed and spine appears a little grubby but not seriously. Overall a good copy. Paste down private bookplate to the back of the front board Brackemburn. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 3181 SPIELMANN (MRS M.H), LITTLEDOM CASTLE AND OTHER TALES, colour frontis and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Kate Greenaway, Jessie M King and others, gilt pictorial purple cloth, page edges gilt, George Routledge, 1903 (1) Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally pages with even age wear browning odd foxing marks here or there but overall, internally good. Cloth binding clean and bright, light rubbing to top and bottom of the spine and tips of corners. A good copy. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 3182 PERRAULT (MR), TALES OF PASSED TIMES WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN, limited edition, 151/200 signed by the author, with colour frontis, text illustrations and black and white vignettes by John Austen, hardcover with pictorial front board, Selwyn & Blout, 1922 (1). Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPages perhaps with a light age wear browning but generally internally clean and bright. Cover with lightly and evenly slightly darkened a few spot marks mostly to back cover. Overall a nice copy. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Lot 3183 MARIE QUEEN OF ROMANIA, THE STORY OF NAUGHTY KILDEEN, with black and white and colour illustrations, gilt and colour decorated pictorial front board with cloth spine, Oxford University Press, 1922 (1) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPages with some age wear browning, odd foxing marks here and there and slight finger marks here and there. Page edges with general light wear, two pages with small chip, two corners with a small crease. Gutter at p6/7 slightly open at bottom and brown from exposed binders glue. Colour illustration at p31 with loss to the surface down the vertical gutter where it was originally glued and has opened a little. Binding rubbed at all edges, heaviest to the corners and bottom of the spine. A few age wear marks but generally bright in appearance. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 3184 DULAC (E), illus, THE KINGDOM OF THE PEARL, by Leonard Rosenthal, limited edition, 86/100 signed by Edmund Dulac, with ten tipped in colour plates, patterned end papers, pages with gilt top and uncut edges, 1/4 vellum, with d.j., New York, Brentanos, c1925 (1) Estimate£300 - £400Winning Bid£460StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally generally clean and bright, odd speck mark here and there. P43-46 heavily browned possible that a piece of paper was once placed between 44/45 and offset its shape. Light offsetting of text. Patterned end papers lightly browned and black end papers lightly offset with pattern of the patterned end papers. Boards generally browned and with some marks more so to the back cover, and edges of boards with some wear. Spine much cleaner some bumping to top and bottom edge. Jacket lightly browned, some foxing marks, shadow line to the bottom of the front section. View details Estimate£300 - £400Winning Bid£460StatusCLOSED Lot 3185 SACKVILLE-WEST (E), THE RESCUE, limited edition, 74/850, illustrated by Henry Moore, with six colour plates as per list, un-clipped d.j., blue cloth (sun faded), Secker and Warburg, 1945; GRIERSON (F), HAUNTING EDINBURGH, limited edition 10/110 signed by the author, with an original etching by Katherine Cameron, 1/4 cloth with patterned boards, London, Bodley Head, 1929 (2) Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3186 RACKHAM (A), illus, POOR CECCO, THE WONDERFUL STORY OF A WONDERFUL WOODEN DOG , by Margery Williams Bianco, with seven tipped in colour plates, orange cloth with red lettering, Chatto & Windus, 1925 (1) Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe book is in a protective thin plastic cover which is taped to itself (not to the book) at the back of the boards. This tape has left outline marks on the free end paper. Front end paper with old one line ink inscription. Page edges with minor browning, a couple of odd fox marks but generally internally good. Binding with light rubbing to the corners and top and bottom of the spine but generally ok. View details Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 3187 FITZGERALD (E), RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, limited edition 450/1000, with original etching signed by Niroot Puttapipat, tipped in colour plates, patterned front board, London, Folio Society, 2009, in hard cover case with title to the spine (1) Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£520StatusCLOSED Condition ReportGood condition View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£520StatusCLOSED Lot 3188 DETMOLD (E.J), illus, HOURS OF GLADNESS, by M. Maeterlinck, with twenty tipped in colour plates, original cloth with gilt detailing, London, George Allen & Co, 1912 (1). Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInk inscription to the front loose end paper, browned at edges and with some foxing. Un-cut page edges with age wear browning. Internally generally clean, perhaps a few minor speck marks or foxing spots. Plates ok. Cover lightly grubby more so to the spine. Minor bumping to the corners, heavier to the top and bottom of the spine with a few small tears. View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 3189 MILTON (J), COMUS A MASUE, illustrated by Jessie M King, with illustrations as per list, gilt pictorial red and green cloth, London, George Routledge, 1906 (1) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome light foxing to all of the plates. Pages with light age wear browning and some odd spot marks but generally ok. Cloth binding clean and bright, just minor rubbing. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Lot 3190 QUILTER (H), PREFERENCES IN ART, LIFE AND LITERATURE, limited edition, 230/280 signed by Harry Quilter, this being on a paste down on the back of the front board, with numerous plates, the plates at page 326 and 362 are transposed with errata tucked in at 326, a plate at page 360 which is not at this point in the plate listing Fruit-Sellers on The Giudecca, gilt parchment binding, book plate on front free end paper for Sir George White, Baronet, London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1892 (1) A book Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Condition ReportEnd papers foxed. Lesser foxing here and there internally to text and a couple of the plates, perhaps a little more pronounced to the extremity of the un-cut edges. Binding a little grubby, more so to the edges of the spine and the back board. Back board with some line marks and a discoloured patch below the gilt decoration. A faint vertical shadow line down the middle of the gilt decoration on the back. Minor bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Despite this bright in appearance and overall ok. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 3191 LILLUSTRATION, NOEL 1933, French art publication, with tipped in plates and other illustrations, decorative lacquer effect front cover decorated with fish (1) Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Condition ReportBack cover detached from spine and held in place by plastic wrapper. Front cover detached from spine for half the vertical length. Edges of covers worn. Internally with some light edge browning, one of the plates slightly loose but generally clean and bright. View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 3192 GRAHAM ROBERTSON (W), OLD ENGLISH SONGS AND DANCES, colour illustrations to the text and music, pictorial front board with cloth spine, Longmans, Green & Co, 1902 (1) Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Condition ReportLoose end paper at front and back browned. Feint offsetting on the half title of each section. Some foxing here and there, finger marks and light browning etc, but generally internally fair. Binding worn along the edges of the boards and evenly grubby with age wear marks throughout. Two light damp marks to the back cover. View details Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Lot 3193 DULAC (EDMUND), introducer, CHRISTMAS, PICTURES BY CHILDREN, with fourteen colour plates each with a guard printed with text by children attending Prof Cizeks classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule, patterned boards with mounted title and cloth spine, London J.M. Dent 1922, Vienna Birguerlag, Richter & Zollner (1) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally generally clean and bright. Odd minor foxing mark and plates lightly offset onto the tissue paper. Booksellers light pencil note to top of title page. Binding, boards and end papers may not be original. Spine ok, cover with some light foxing. Paper mounted title with some light wear. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3194 TENNYSON (A), IDYLLS OF THE KING, illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, with tipped in colour plates complete as per list, blue cloth with gilt detailing, with sheet tucked into front advertising Eleanor Brickdale Exhibition for the drawings of Idylls of The King at Leicester Galleries London in 1911, in original cardboard box, Hodder & Stoughton, c1911 (1) Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome foxing internally, this is generally to the pages towards the front and the back; back free end paper browned. The exhibition sheet to the front may have originally been fixed in. Three of the tissue guards with creases. Despite foxing generally internally ok. Cloth binding with minor rubbing to corners and top and bottom of the spine otherwise clean and bright. Original glassine wrapper worn throughout. Base section of box with age wear browning to bottom edge and generally grubby to the underside, minor wear to corners. Lid split at all corners, right hand edge in two sections and split along the edge for half of the length. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3195 REYNOLDS (F), illus, THE PICKWICK PAPERS, by Charles Dickens, with tipped in colour plates as per list, pictorial red cloth, Westminster Press; REYNOLDS (F), illus, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, with tipped in plates as per list, pictorial red cloth, Hodder & Stoughton; REYNOLDS (F), illus, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, with tipped in plates complete as per list, pictorial red cloth, Hodder & Stoughton (3) Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Condition ReportPickwick Short ink inscription to top of the pictorial end paper dated 1926. Internally generally clean and bright. Red cloth spine with a little fading. Minor rubbing bumping. Generally good. David Copperfield Foxing to the page edges when closed. Frontis plate with two creases to bottom tight. Other plates with some creases. Back of book lacking the blank page. A few odd foxing spots to pages but generally internally ok. Binding bumped to the corners and top and bottom of the spine, some minor age wear marks to the back cover. Curiosity shop Paste down old childs name label to front blank. Odd foxing spots here and there. One of the tissue guards with a crease. Pages lightly browned. Front cover with a few dirt marks, back cover with slight damp mark to bottom left edge. Light rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners. View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 3196 CHAUCER (G), TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, a love poem in five books, with wood engravings by Eric Gill, pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, Random House, 1932 (1) Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally clean and bright. Cloth binding with small, darkened patch to bottom of spine and perhaps a little across the top edge. Overall a good copy. View details Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 3197 NEILSON GRAY (N), illus, ODE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by William Wordsworth, with twelve mounted colour plates, gilt pictorial green cloth, Dent & Sons (1) Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportEnd papers with general browning. Two or three minor spot blemishes internally but generally clean and bright. Cloth binding clean and bright, just slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 3198 SCHUTZE (S), WILLIAM BLAKE, THE DRAWINGS FOR DANTES DIVINE COMEDY; DAVID HOCKNEY A BIG PICTURE, d.j., Thames & Hudson, 2012/13; RODIN, Royal Academy of Arts, 2007; BOND (A), FRANCIS BACON, FIVE DECADES, Thames & Hudson; and a selection of other art and design books including Leonardo Da Vinci, Picasso, Liberty, Turner, Renoir etc (25) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 3199 NIELSEN (K), illus, EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, OLD TALES FROM THE NORTH, with twenty-five tipped in plates with tissue guards, rebound in full black leather with gilt detailing, later marbled end papers, double page of original end papers bound in at front, original front cover bound in at the back, Hodder & Stoughton [1914] (1). Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSED Condition ReportLeather binding with a few light scuffs, a small impression to the back cover and very light rubbing to corners but generally good. Internally pages with age wear browning throughout and corners slightly rounded. Tissue guard for frontis is slightly loose it has come away from the binding at the top and the bottom. Title page weak where it joins the binding at the gutter it has creased here along the vertical length and is torn up this crease from the bottom for about a third of the length of the page and from the top down for about a quarter of the length. Ink name and pencil name written to the back of one of the original end papers. Some damp marks to the bottom edge of several pages, this does not seem to affect the tissue guards. Tissue guard at P92 with small chip. Plates clean and bright. View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSED Lot 3200 GRIMM (J & W), GRIMMS FAIRY TALES, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Calla Editions, 2010; STEEL (F), ENGLISH FAIRY TALES, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, d.j, Calla Editions, 2011; HUDSON (D), ARTHUR RACKHAM, his life and work, Heinemann, 1974 (3) Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 3201 MARY ANDERSON (F), THE BLACK PRINCESS AND OTHER FAIRY TALES FROM BRAZIL, translated from the Portuguese of Chrysantheme by Christie T Young, with handwritten and signed author's letter tipped in at the back of the front board, with full page colour plates as per list, pictorial beige cloth, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, (1). The letter reads: 9 Adam Street, Postman Square, W, Feb 19th 1917. Dear Ms Edenburgh; It is good news that you give me about your health and thank you very muc Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAuthors letter attached by tabs to the back of the front board. The internal section of the back board has four light marks where something was once tabbed in. Some odd foxing here and there internally. All pages with some age wear browning. Plate at p112 appears to have become stuck to the text page along the gutter small loss to text here and plate gutter open. Two of the other plates with similar however, not to such a degree. Cloth binding back cover lightly grubby front cover brighter. Bumping to top and bottom of spine and lightly to corners. Lettering on the spine rubbed. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 3202 RACKHAM (A), illus, THE TEMPEST, by William Shakespeare, with twenty tipped in colour plates, black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration and d.j., William Heineman, 1926 (1) Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Condition ReportInternally good. Plates clean and bright. Odd small foxing spots here or there nothing serious. A few minor foxing spots visible to edges of pages when closed. Cloth with a few minor speck marks and very minimal rubbing to the bottom of the spine but generally good. D.j, with light foxing to the front cover mostly to the bottom edge. Jacket spine edges, outer edge of fold overs and top of back cover with some dirt marks. Minor edge wear and slight tear to top left of front cover but generally jacket ok. View details Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Lot 3203 NEWBOLT (H), DRAKES DRUM AND OTHER SONGS OF THE SEA, with illustrations by A.D. McCormick, with twelve tipped in colour plates, pictorial end papers, gilt pictorial cover, Hodder and Stoughton; FRANK (T), translator, THE WORLDS BEST FAIRY STORIES, with twenty-three tipped in colour plates, red cloth with paper mounted illustration, London, Fisher Unwin, 1911 (2). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Condition ReportDrakes Drum cloth binding bright, slight rubbing to tips of corners and top and bottom of spine. Back cover with a few slight marks nothing serious. Free pictorial end paper to the front and the back browned throughout. Half title with ink inscriptions above and below printed text for Christmas 1914. Internally generally clean and bright. Fairy Stories cloth binding rubbed to all edges and with some wear/fraying to the top, edges and bottom of the spine. Spine lightly sunned, back board with sun fading shadow line. Pastedown illustrations to the front with light surface wear but generally ok. Internally with some foxing throughout, two of the plates with slight corner creases, but generally ok. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3204 TREDER (M), HIROSHIGE, ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO, string bound soft cover with cardboard cover, Taschen; THE MUSEUM OF EAST ASIAN ART INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, Vols I & II, both with d.j., 3rd April 1993; FORSYTH (A), JADES FROM CHINA, The Museum of Modern Art, with d.j., 11th June 1994; KENNA (M), FORMS FROM JAPAN, with white d.j., Prestel, 2015; FAHR-BECKER (G), RYOKAN, A JAPANESE TRADITION, d.j., Konemann, 2000; and three other books (9) Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 3205 WEBB (M), THE MAGIC LAMPLIGHTER, illustrated by Margaret Tarrant, with colour plates as per list, map end papers, pictorial paper mounted d.j, beige cloth, Medici Society, 1926; STEVENS (F), THROUGH MERRIE ENGLAND, illustrated by Francis Bedford, with illustrations as per list, clipped d.j., blue cloth, Frederick Warne & Co; FILEMAN (R), THE PRINCESS DANCES, illustrated by Cecil Leslie, with plates as per list, d.j., with pictorial board and cloth spine, Dent & Sons, 1933; WATSON (A), illus, THE Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£80StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£80StatusCLOSED Lot 3206 WILDE (OSCAR); Essays and Letters folio, reprinted from selected letters of Oscar Wilde, also further books to include 'How to Restore and Repair Practically Everything' by Lorraine Johnson, etc. Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 3207 Eight art books comprising 'Albrecht Dürer The Complete Engravings', 'The Impressionists by Themselves', 'Leonardo Da Vinci' by Kenneth Clarke Folio Society, 'The Renaissance', 'Christie's Review of the Season 1981' and '1984' and two Polish examples 'Poczet Krolow Polskich' and 'Zielan Warszawy' (8). Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Condition ReportDust jackets to the latter two volumes heavily worn, numerous tears. Further general surface wear. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 3208 A collection of art reference books including 'History of Art' by H. W. Janson, 'The Joy of Art', 'Harvey Dinnerstein Artist at Work' and further relating to the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, L. S. Lowry, Goya, Picasso, Matisse, etc. Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Items per page 122448 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
