Lot: 41
M.D. Wyatt The Art of Illuminating, Day & Son, 1860, the text & plates loose & incomplete; 72 plates remain, mostly fine, 5 with foxing.
Lot: 42
Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies' hats, taken from Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes, or similar, image size 22.5 x 14.5cm or larger, a few creased but mostly fine. (178)
Lot: 43
Vogue Patterns, November 1953, Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped; section tabs at fore-edge well-thumbed; first page soiled o/w clean internally with many 100s of coloured illustrations; 14 pages damaged with large pieces cut away. Prices are in UK Sterling and Canadian Dollars. Approx 1000pp.
Lot: 44
G.E. Studdy The Bonzo Book, being the Third Studdy Dogs Portfolio, large format, 33.5 x 25.5cm, pictorial wraps badly frayed & detached, the contents loose but complete & clean, with title page and 15 plates; includes three on golf humour.
Lot: 45
Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten, Berlin, 1894, Volume VIII, folio, publisher's gilt cloth, worn at extremities o/w VG; many full-page plates, mainly in b/w, and other illustrations in text. Three plates torn.
Lot: 46
Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Nov. 1924, August 1925, and Sept. 1925, all fine with the hand coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates, bound together with a French 1920s edition of Vogue magazine; in a fine modern full leather binding, gilt title to spine. Original wraps preserved.
Lot: 47
Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Christmas 1922, March and November 1926 and September 1927; all with the original wraps, each with a pictorial onlay, string bound; all with the hand-coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates; the issue for March 1926 has had a page partly cut-away o/w VG/Fine (4)
Lot: 48
Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Christmas 1922, July 1923, and April & July 1926; all in the original wraps with pictorial onlay, the issues for Christmas 1922 and April 1926 handstamped SPECIMEN on front cover; all with the hand-coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates, the issue for July 1923 with some plates removed. Fair to fine. Housed in a slipcase. (4)
Lot: 49
Croquis Artistiques: Taille Extra, Summer, 1940, large format, original printed wraps, with 24 full-page hand-coloured fashion plates;covers a little worn, the front cover chipped at one corner. Fine internally. Introductory trilingual text.
Lot: 50
Arnold Bachwitz Croquis Parisiens, Modeles Classiques, Summer 1927, original printed wraps, contents loose comprising 11 hand-coloured plates, 30.5 x 19.5cm, on blue paper, fine.
Lot: 51
Sport-Dresses No.2, Summer 1925, large format (33 x 19.5cm), original printed wraps, string bound, complete with 30 fine hand-coloured plates. 2pp introductory text. Very scarce.
Lot: 52
Modelles Originaux, Hiver 1916/17, printed wraps, abrasion to front cover, some plates removed but still containing 52 hand-coloured fashion plates; tall quarto, somewhat reduced by the binder affecting a few of the images. Free from foxing.
Lot: 53
My Home and Modern Home, a fine bound volume of the colour supplements, 1932-45, most with artwork by Watson Charlton, quarto, cloth bound, gilt, for “R.F.J.” and entitled My Collection 1932-45 with gilt lettering to front and spine. Colour illustration throughout, 600pp.
Lot: 54
Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work, The Studio, 1914, profusely illustrated with b/w and colour plates by Rackham, Dulac, Jessie M. King etc, in orig. printed wraps, spine frayed, some occasional tone marks, colour plates unaffected; plus The Studio Vol.51, 1911, bound volume; and Modern Pen Drawings: European and American, The Studio, 1901, bound volume. (3)
Lot: 55
Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament, Bernard Quaritch, 1868; folio, rebound in modern cloth with gilt leather title; title page & preface damaged & repaired (with some loss); 70 fine coloured plates (of 112).
Lot: 56
William Gamble (Ed.) Penrose's Annual. The Process Year Book, Lund Humphries, 1910-16, 1920-1939, & 1946, a collection of 26 different volumes, in the original publisher's bindings, plus two additional 1930 volumes; seven volumes from 1913 to 1924 with some loose plates, some illustrations having been apparently removed. Very clean internally. (28)
Lot: 57
James Andrews (botanical artist, 1801-76): A selection of hand-coloured lithographed botanical plates, each initialled ‘J.A.' in the design, the lithographs by J.R. Jobbins, six in sunken card mounts, plus two others unmounted; image sizes 19.2 x 12.6cm; together with a smaller hand-coloured design by Andrews. Fine. (9 plates)
Lot: 58
C.T. Rosenberg (botanical artist & lithographer): twelve hand-coloured plates from The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany,1850; one with some marks & abrasions, others VG/Fine. 25.7 x 18.5cm (12)
Lot: 59
G. N. Wright, and Thomas Allom (illustrator) China, in a series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire. Peter Jackson, [1850s], re-issue of the Fisher & Son 1843 edition, four volumes bound as two, quarto, half leather, worn, a.e.g.; front board of second volume detached; old library plates to the pastedowns and a single stamp to each title page; the 125 tissue-guarded engraved plates complete plus engraved frontispiece and engraved half-titles. Occasional foxing to the tissue-guards also affecting some plate margins but largely fine internally.
Lot: 60
Selection of reproduction County Maps by Thomas Moule, all set in sunken card mounts. Fine and attractive. (12)