Auction No 400, Category: Illustrated

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

The Illustrated London News, July to December 1931, bound volume, publisher’s gilt cloth, VG, colour plates by Cecil Aldin & others,

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £50
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The Illustrated London News, July to December 1931, bound volume, publisher's gilt cloth, VG, colour plates by Cecil Aldin & others, rear inner hinge weak, bookplate to front pastedown, o/w fine internally

19th to mid-20th Century selection including "Poems of Thomas Hood Illustrated by Birket Foster", 1872, quarto, decorated cloth, fine engravings;

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £40
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19th to mid-20th Century selection including Poems of Thomas Hood Illustrated by Birket Foster, 1872, quarto, decorated cloth, fine engravings; Charles Darwin The Descent of Man, 1901, and Journal of Researches......During the Voyage of the H.M.S.Beagle, 1890 (worn binding); [Francis Smedley] Frank Fairleigh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil with illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1866; Mundell Stories of the Victoria Cross 1904; Burrage The Slave Raiders of Zanzibar 1897; Henry Fielding The History of Amelia, Routledge, 1884, No.119 of 400 large paper copies; and various others, many with pictorial cloth bindings, many with previous owner's bookplate. Fair to fine. (46)

"Leader Magazine", Hulton Press, December 1948-1950, a collection of 78 different issues, all complete with original pictorial wraps,

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
UNSOLD
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Leader Magazine, Hulton Press, December 1948-1950, a collection of 78 different issues, all complete with original pictorial wraps, contained in publisher's binding cases (easily removed); contributors includes Laurie Lee (several), John Betjeman, John Farleigh, Mervyn Peake (illustrations), Michael Ayrton, and other well-known writers and illustrators. Some rusting to staples o/w VG/Fine. (78)    

Gustave Dore illustrated works, all tall quarto, published by Cassell & Co; comprising "The History of Don Quixote", [1880], half-leather, gilt,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £94
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Gustave Dore illustrated works, all tall quarto, published by Cassell & Co; comprising The History of Don Quixote, [1880], half-leather, gilt, front endpapers creased; Milton's Paradise Lost, 1905, half-leather gilt, endpapers browned; and Cassell's Dore Gallery, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, [1885]. The Gallery is bound in full leather, gilt, a.e.g., rubbed & chipped in places, front hinge cracked & repair needed at foot of backstrip, and contains 250 fine full-page plates. All three with text & plates clean & free from foxing. Fair to VG. (3)

Robert Herrick "Herrick: Some of His Lyrics with Decorations By T.R.R. Ryder" Gay & Hancock, London, 1913; octavo, gilt cloth,

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £10
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Robert Herrick  Herrick: Some of His Lyrics with Decorations By T.R.R. Ryder, Gay & Hancock, London, 1913; octavo, gilt cloth, a little marked & faded, uncut at foot, t.e.g.; endpapers toned, few minor fox marks internally, free from inscriptions; 24pp of art nouveau designs.