61 |
Lancaster, Osbert. New Pocket Cartoons. Murray, London, 1941, Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 38 others, most by or illustrated by the same. (39) £40-60 | Nil |
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80 |
| 62 | Lawrence, T.E. Shaw-Ede. T.E. Lawrence's Letters to H.S. Ede 1927-1935, Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1942, One of 500 copies, quarter morocco, cloth boards. Inserted are 14 a.l.ss from Ede to Kerrison Preston (not relating to Lawrence), ca. 24pp., 1931-68 £50-80 | Nil |
|
130 |
| 63 | Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen, London, 1926, First edition, decorations by E.H. Shepard, original lambskin gilt, spine rubbed and faded; and two others by the same. (3) £50-100 | Nil |
|
190 |
| 64 | Poe, Edgar Allan. Selected Tales of Mystery. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1909, 4to, decorated cloth, colour plates by Byam Shaw; and others illus by Shaw, Rackham &c. (8) £40-60 | Nil |
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110 |
| 65 | Van de Velde, Ernest. Chantons Noel. Mame, Tours, 1938, Coloured illustrations by Marie Marc-Nohain, oblong 8vo, original cloth backed pictorial boards; and nine others, well bound, mostly sm. 8vo. (10) £40-60 | Nil |
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30 |
| 66 | Allen, L. & D. The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with original leaves. Greenbrae, [1985] Limited to 750 copies, folio. Original cloth; and two others, American presses. (3) £50-100 | Nil |
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140 |
| 67 | Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. A Study of the illuminated Books of William Blake. Trianon, London, 1964, Limited to 525 copies, signed, folio, half leather, slipcase; and four others, Blake. (5) £40-80 | Nil |
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80 |
| 68 | Milton, John. Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake. Nonesuch Press, London, 1926, 2 vol. in one, one of 90 copies on India paper, vellum boards; Morris, William. Two Poems.with eight decorations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Fanfrolico Press, London, 1930, One of 450 copies, cloth- backed boards; and six others, Nonesuch and other private presses. (8) £60-120 | Nil |
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380 |
| 69 | Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and other essays. Cassell, London, 1929, One of 100 copies on large paper, signed by the author, buckram, spine faded; Donne, John. The Holy Sonnets. Engravings by Eric Gill. Dent, London, 1938, One of 500 copies, signed by Gill; and eight others, by, about or illustrated by Gill. (10) £150-200 | Nil |
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240 |
| 70 | Gill, Eric, and Pepler, H.D.C. The Devil's Devices.with woodcuts by Eric Gill. Hampshire House Workshops, Hammersmith, 1915, Printed wrappers; Nisi Dominus. S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1919, Cloth-backed boards, engravings by Gill; In Petra, Being a sequel to 'Nisi Dominus'. S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1923, Hessian boards, paper label, engravings by Gill; Pepler, H.D.C. Libellus Lapidum. S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1924, Printed wrappers, woodcuts by David Jones. (4) £80-120 | Nil |
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300 |
| 71 | Gill, Eric. Clothing without Cloth, an Essay on the Nude. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931, No. 5 of 500 copies, narrow 8vo, buckram, engravings by the author; Clay, Enid. The Constant Mistress. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1934, One of 300 copies, engravings by Gill, signed by author and illustrator; and two others, Golden Cockerel Press. (4) £70-90 | Nil |
|
190 |
| 72 | Golden Cockerel Press. The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean de Brebeuf. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938, One of 300 copies, double-page title by Eric Gill, black and russet cloth; The Song of Songs. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1936, One of 200 copies, copper engravings by Lettice Sandford, folio, cloth; Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several Remote Nations of the World.by Lemuel Gulliver. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925, 2 vol., 4to, wood engravings by David Jones, many coloured, white half cloth, black paper sides. (4) £100-200 | Nil |
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480 |
| 73 | Golden Cockerel Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1929-31, One of 485 copies, 4 vol., sm. folio, quarter niger morocco, patterned paper boards, spines discoloured and rubbed. (4) £1000-1500 | Nil |
|
1900 |
| 74 | Musaeus. Hero & Leander, Translated from the Greek by F.L. Lucas. [Copper engravings by John Buckland-Wright. Golden Cockerel Press, London,] 1949, One of 100 specially bound copies with an additional engraving, signed by translator and illustrator, full vellum gilt, slipcase; Bone, Gavin. Beowulf in Modern Verse. Blackwell, Oxford, 1945, One of 75 copies on handmade paper, plates, quarter parchment, a.l.s. from Muirhead Bone and other ephemera inserted. (2) £250-450 | Nil |
|
340 |
| 75 | Bible. The Book of Genesis now printed in the Authorised Version and illustrated after drawings by F. Cayley Robinson. Medici Society, London, 1914, One of only 12 copies printed on vellum, 4to, limp vellum and silk ties, dust- wrapper; and four others, Alcuin, Florence and Curwen presses. (5) £100-150 | Nil |
|
1000 |
| 76 | Shakespeare Head Press. Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Macbeth. Introduction by H. Granville Barker, art editor Albert Rutherston, plates by Charles Ricketts. Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, 1923, One of 100 copies on handmade paper, signed by Granville Barker, Rutherston and Ricketts and bound in full oasis morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. £100-200 | Nil |
|
260 |
| 77 | Gregynog Press. Bridges, Robert. Eros and Psyche, a poem in XII measures: with wood-cuts from designs by Edward Burne-Jones. Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1935, One of 300 copies, 4to, white pigskin boards, gilt, buckram slipcase. £200-300 | Nil |
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300 |
| 78 | Kelmscott Press. Syr Perecyvelle of Gales. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1895, [One of 350 copies,] frontis by Burne-Jones, limp vellum. £200-300 | Nil |
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650 |
| 79 | Kelmscott Press. Voragine, trans. Caxton. The Golden Legend. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1892, 3 vol., 4to, woodcut title and 2 full-page illustrations by Burne-Jones, holland-backed boards, paper labels, bindings very worn, cuttings on end-papers. (3) £80-150 | Nil |
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750 |
| 80 | Kelmscott Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896, [One of 425 copies.] Folio, full white pigskin, borders, woodcut title, initials &c by Morris, 87 wood engravings by Edward Burne-Jones. One of the 48 copies (including two on vellum) bound by T.J. Cobden- Sanderson at the Doves Bindery after a design by William Morris. A superlative example which, according to family tradition, was presented by Georgiana Burne-Jones to the illustrator and family friend Graham Robertson, who in turn passed it to Kerrison Preston. £30000-40000 | Nil |
|
74000 |
| 81 | Ashendene Press. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe. Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1933, One of 290 copies, 4to, wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, hand painted initials by Graily Hewitt, quarter vellum. £400-600 | Nil |
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550 |
| 82 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Autograph letter signed, Cheyne Walk, n.d. 3pp., to Sydney Morse, commenting favourably on a book by the picture restorer Henry Merritt and commenting on the 'arrangements as to No. 15' with the hope that 'you and Seddon are still conducting operations. As yet all has been quite quiet.' Merritt's Art Criticism and Romance appeared posthumously in 1879. Morse took over the lease of 96 Cheyne Walk from Whistler in 1878; Rossetti lived at No. 16 £200-300 | Nil |
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300 |
| 83 | Brown, Ford Madox. Autograph letter signed, Manchester, December 1886, 3pp., to Frederic Shields, giving news of his work on some 'colossal' figures for the Jubilee Exhibition with 'DGR's old pupil' W.J. Knewstub and enquiring about 'a cast of a shorn sheep. I had one in my studio - shorn on purpose - but he was a Xmas one, & so fat that taking his wool off made very little difference to him - or to me.' Together with a brief a.l.s. from Holman Hunt, 1p., September 1879 (2) £60-100 | Nil |
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160 |
| 84 | Millais, John Everett. Autograph letter signed, London, December 1862. 3pp. 12mo to 'Dear Combe'. He is registering his copyrights according the the new law and understands from [Holman] Hunt that Combe would like to retain the copyright of the painting he owns; he wants œ150 - 'I believe I would get that sum from any publisher'. Together with an a.l.s. from Edward Burne-Jones to Frederic Shields, 1" pp., January 1873, regretting that he could submit nothing for Holding's exhibition but promising to send something later (torn at edge, text unaffacted). (2) £60-100 | Nil |
|
170 |
| 85 | Watts, G.F. Autograph letter signed, Guildford, October 1903, 1p., apparently about his painting 'A Parasite', original envelope, with related letters and notes; also a 3pp. a.l.s. from the artist Carlo (Charles Edward) Perugini, husband of Dickens' daughter Kate. October 1887; and one other, all in a morocco book-form box. (3) £60-100 | Nil |
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120 |
| 86 | Morris, William. [Selected Works.] Longmans, London, 1901-02, [One of 315 copies.] 8 vol., 4to, quarter cloth, paper boards, labels, occasionally faded or discoloured, contents fine. Works which Morris intended to produce at the Kelmscott Press but never completed, here printed by the Chiswick Press in Morris' Golden type. (8) £200-300 | Nil |
|
460 |
| 87 | Ashendene Press. Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1906, One of 100 copies, 4to, holland-backed paper boards, inscribed by the printer C.H.St.J. Hornby to his father, and with an a.l.s. from him to a subsequent purchaser inserted. £500-800 | Nil |
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1700 |
| 88 | Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1891, [One of 200 copies.] Sm. 4to, vellum, leather ties. The first Kelmscott Press book. £180-250 | Nil |
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1100 |
| 89 | Kelmscott Press. Ruskin, John. The Nature of Gothic. Preface by William Morris. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, [1892]. [One of 500 copies.] Sm. 4to, vellum, silk ties, ink spot on spine. £150-250 | Nil |
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550 |
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90 |
Kelmscott Press. Mackail, J.W. Biblia Innocentium: being the story of God's chosen people.written anew for children. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1892 [One of 200 copies.] Vellum, silk ties. With a presentation inscription from Mackail dated Christmas 1892 £150-250 |
Nil |
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750 |
