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Auction No 363, Category: Illustrated

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Watts Phillips (illustrator) "The Coast in Danger!!! A Laugh at the Threatened Invasion" Ackermann, c.1855

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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Watts Phillips (illustrator) The Coast in Danger!!! A Laugh at the Threatened Invasion Ackermann, c.1855, oblong octavo, boards with pictorial onlay (very darkened), 11pp of hand-coloured cartoons, hinged concertina-style, good. Scarce

Jean Cumming "Ten Little Nigger Boys" Raphael Tuck [1950], original illustrated card wraps, VG;

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £30
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Jean Cumming Ten Little Nigger Boys, Raphael Tuck [1950], original illustrated card wraps, VG; no internal inscriptions or markings.12pp

Capt. W.E. Johns "Biggles Does Some Homework" Norman Wright 1998, No. 25 of 300 in VF dustjacket;

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £350
SOLD £80
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Capt. W.E. Johns Biggles Does Some Homework, Norman Wright 1998, No. 25 of 300 in VF dustjacket; one of only 35 with original artwork on the half-title signed and numbered by the illustrator Andrew Skilleter, additionally signed on the limitation page by the publisher. Fine are rare.

"A Correspondence of 1953, concerning the book 'The Seven Deadly Virtues', by Denis Tegetmieir and Eric Gill,

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £36
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A Correspondence of 1953, concerning the book 'The Seven Deadly Virtues', by Denis Tegetmieir and Eric Gill, initiated and conducted by the collector and bibliophile Stanley Scott. Incline Press, 1999, quarto, marbled boards, cloth backstrip, title label, No. 7 of 120, VF; together with four other limited edition Incline Press publications including A Book of Nursery Rhymes 1993, No. 38 of 310, illustrated by Enid Marx. (5)

Illustrated Children's Books including Kate Greenaway "Mother Goose" printed by Edmund Evans;

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Illustrated Children’s Books including Kate Greenaway Mother Goose printed by Edmund Evans; Randolph Caldecott (2); Come Lasses and Lads, Castell Brothers, chromo-litho printing; The Podgy-Puppy illustrated by Alan Wright & Anne Anderson; and 2 others. (7)

R.M. Murray Gilchrist "The Gaffer's Masterpiece" Medway School of Arts & Crafts, Rochester, 1936,

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
UNSOLD
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R.M. Murray Gilchrist The Gaffer's Masterpiece Medway School of Arts & Crafts, Rochester, 1936, five wood engravings, 14pp, printed wraps; and two other Medway School publications. (3)

Manchester Wheelers' Club 1899 illuminated address to Allen W. Phillips on the occasion of his leaving Manchester for Johannesburg,

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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Manchester Wheelers' Club 1899 illuminated address to Allen W. Phillips on the occasion of his leaving Manchester for Johannesburg, signed by 33 fellow cyclists, a group photo laid down inside front cover, quarto, full leather, gilt, some light wear; together with a 2-page letter of 1933 from the Manchester Wheelers to Phillips’ widow and 2 related photos.  

Billheads and other documents, much from 19th Century Derby, the balance 1920s & 1930s France,

Lot: 186

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £230
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Billheads and other documents, much from 19th Century Derby, the balance 1920s & 1930s France, plus 2 issues of L’Illustration 1935 & 1938. Bulky lot. (100s)