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Auction No 404, Category: Illustrated

27 Lots (displaying 21 - 27)

H.G. Wells "The Door in the Wall and Other Stories", Folio Society, 2016, illustrated from photographs by Alvin Longdon Coburn,

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £170 - £220
SOLD £195
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H.G. Wells The Door in the Wall and Other Stories, Folio Society, 2016, illustrated from photographs by Alvin Longdon Coburn, number 259 of 1000 issued, facsimile of the Grant Richards edition of 1915 (of which only 60 were issued); quarter-cloth, printed title label to spine, gilt title to front board; complete with related softback essays by George Hendrick and David Lodge, and housed in publisher's box with gilt titles and pictorial onlay. VF

"The Getty Apocalypse", Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 452 of 1000 printed;

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £350
SOLD £320
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The Getty Apocalypse, Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 452 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.

Geoffrey Chaucer "Troilus & Criseyde" illustrated by Eric Gill; Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927;

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £170
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Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde illustrated by Eric Gill; Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927; bound in full goatskin leather, gilt, by Lachenmaier, number 193 of 1,250 issued, complete with companion volume of Essays by Barry Windeatt & Roderick Cave, all housed in the publisher's box with gilt lettering. VF

[Jonathan Swift] "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World…. by Lemuel Gulliver", Folio Society, 2011, illustrated by Peter Suart;

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £250
SOLD £310
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[Jonathan Swift] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World….by Lemuel Gulliver, Folio Society, 2011, illustrated by Peter Suart; quarter vellum, gilt, pictorial design to front board, by the Fine Book Bindery; number 252 of 1000 issued, numbered and signed by the illustrator on an original etching mounted opposite the limitation page; 17 additional tipped-in colour plates ; housed in publisher's box with gilt title label to spine. VF

Eric Gill (illustrator) "The Four Gospels",Folio Society, 2007, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1931, bound in full goatskin leather

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £145
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Eric Gill (illustrator) The Four Gospels, Folio Society, 2007, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1931, bound in full goatskin leather by Lachenmaier, with gilt designs and gilt edges; illustrated with Gill's wood engravings. Number 287 of 2,750 issued. Together with the bound volume of Essays by John Dreyfus and Robert Gibbings, and housed in the publisher's box, gilt lettering to spine. VF

F.O. Morris "A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland", William Mackenzie [1866-80],

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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F.O. Morris A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie [1866-80], Vols.1 and 2; elaborate gilt cloth, the spines worn at top & tail o/w VG; endpapers with ownership stamp (one endpaper loose); 80 quality chomo-litho plates. Some light browning to text.

"Paxton’s Magazine of Botany", Vols. 6 to 12, W.S. Orr & Co., 1834-46, half morocco, gilt titles and gilt edges, some wear,

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £500 - £600
SOLD £660
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, Vols. 6 to 12, W.S. Orr & Co., 1834-46, half morocco, gilt titles and gilt edges, some wear, shelf marks at foot; private library stamps to front pastedowns o/w VG internally with 48 superb hand-coloured plates to each volume; some tone marks to text, the plates unaffected. (7 volumes)