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Auction No 403, Category: Illustrated

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Selection from 19th Century including leather bound volume of 70 engraved plates for "Flaxman’s Homer"; Robert Head "Congleton Past and Present",

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Selection from 19th Century including leather bound volume of 70 engraved plates for Flaxman's Homer; Robert Head Congleton Past and Present, 1987 facsimile reprint; Julia Wedgwood The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood, the Potter, 1915, revised edn; & various others. Fair to fine. (14)

Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong "Memoir of Peter de Wint", 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang "Hoffnung auf China", 1922,

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong Memoir of Peter de Wint, 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang Hoffnung auf China, 1922, one of 600 printed; Schillings With Flashlight and Rifle, 2nd Edn, armorial bookplate & signature of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst; Pitt Hounds Horses and Hunting, 1948, and Lionel Edwards Famous Foxhunters 1932, both with bookplates of Adolph H.C. Wenger; and others. Good/VF (9)

"The Song of Solomon", Chapman & Hall, 1897, with 12 tissue-guarded plates and various woodcuts by H. Granville Fell; full buckram

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £96
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The Song of Solomon, Chapman & Hall, 1897, with 12 tissue-guarded plates and various woodcuts by H. Granville Fell; full buckram with gilt decoration; prize bookplate to front pastedown; front inner hinge a little weak and rear cover slightly marked o/w fine.

[Roger Bacon] "The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon", Otto Schulze, [1904], superb woodcuts, one of 500 printed, front cover darkened;

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £92
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[Roger Bacon] The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, Otto Schulze, [1904], superb woodcuts, one of 500 printed, front cover darkened; John Masefield The Hawbucks, 1929, No.123 of 275, quarter-vellum, signed by the author; Francis Brett Young Black Roses, 1929, No.185 of 525, full vellum, signed by the author; Rhys Davies A Bed of Feathers, Mandrake Press, [1929], in d/jkt, signed by the author; and Robert Gibbings A True Tale of Love in Tonga, Faber, 1935, 1st Edn, ownership inscription. Good to VF (5)

"Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake", Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt,

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £340
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Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake, Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt, the sides in pictorial cloth, together with a companion commentary on Blake's illustrations by Irene Tayler, both contained in the issued cloth bound box with gilt leather title. Very fine, no internal markings. 46x36cm

"The Getty Apocalypse", Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 67 of 1000 printed;

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £350
SOLD £360
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The Getty Apocalypse, Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 67 of 1000 printed; bound in quarter-morocco, gilt, the boards with pictorial onlay; complete with the companion Commentary by Nigel J. Morgan, cloth bound, gilt; and both housed in the issued cloth covered box with gilt title. VF, no internal inscriptions etc.