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Auction No 408, Category: Illustrated

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Raymond Briggs "When the Wind Blows", Penguin, 1983, 2nd printing, pictorial wraps, signed & inscribed by the author in year of publication. VF

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £54
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Raymond Briggs When the Wind Blows, Penguin, 1983, 2nd printing, pictorial wraps, signed & inscribed by the author in year of publication. VF

Jessie M. King (Illustrator): "Poems of Shelley" and "Poems of Spenser", Caxton Publishing [1900s] sm.octavo, in quarter-leather gilt bindings,

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Jessie M. King (Illustrator): Poems of Shelley and Poems of Spenser, Caxton Publishing [1900s] sm.octavo, in quarter-leather gilt bindings, spines worn & frayed; fine internally, each with b/w frontispiece and 8 colour plates by Jessie M. King.           

Louis Wain "A Cat Alphabet and Picture-Book for Little Folk", Blackie & Son, [1914], orig. boards with pictorial onlay, worn & soiled;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £135
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Louis Wain A Cat Alphabet and Picture-Book for Little Folk, Blackie & Son, [1914], orig. boards with pictorial onlay, worn & soiled; all pages loose but complete and clean with 33 full-page colour illustrations and three coloured vignettes. Part of text scratched away at foot of one page.

Louis Wain "Daddy Cat", Dodge Publishing Co., New York [c.1915], orig. cloth-covered boards with pictorial onlay;

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £92
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Louis Wain Daddy Cat, Dodge Publishing Co., New York [c.1915], orig. cloth-covered boards with pictorial onlay; the text detached with loose pages, comprising 32 full-page illustrations (all bar one in colour) plus two vignettes (one in colour); two leaves torn & in need of repair, two others with piece missing from lower corner; six pages have a small stain.

"Louis Wain’s Annual 1915", John F. Shaw, orig. pictorial wraps, worn, rear cover detached and with a corner missing, spine partly chipped away;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Louis Wain's Annual 1915, John F. Shaw, orig. pictorial wraps, worn, rear cover detached and with a corner missing, spine partly chipped away; 1917 gift inscription top of contents page; VG internally with all text, illustrations & adverts at front plus six superb colour plates. Few brown marks to text.

"Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work", The Studio, 1914, profusely illustrated with b/w and colour plates by Rackham, Dulac, Jessie M. King

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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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)

Owen Jones "The Grammar of Ornament", Bernard Quaritch, 1868; folio, rebound in modern cloth with gilt leather title;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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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).

A. Welby Pugin and Bernard Smith "Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume", Henry Bohn, London, 1846, 2nd (enlarged) Edition;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £64
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A. Welby Pugin and Bernard Smith Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, Henry Bohn, London, 1846, 2nd (enlarged) Edition; large format (33cm), rebound in quarter maroon leather, gilt, VG; ownership inscription to front endpaper; colour plates & frontispiece complete, with tissue-guards, light browning to periphery, last five plates show damp-staining to lower margin. 

William Gamble (Ed.) "Penrose’s Annual. The Process Year Book", Lund Humphries, 1910-16, 1920-1939, & 1946, a collection of 26 different volumes

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
UNSOLD
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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)     

F. W. Meyer "The Best Hardy Perennials for producing an abundant supply of Cut Flowers", Blake & Mackenzie, 1901;

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Apr 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £125
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F. W. Meyer The Best Hardy Perennials for producing an abundant supply of Cut Flowers, Blake & Mackenzie, 1901; quarto, original pictorial cloth, VG; complete and very clean internally with the 48 chromo-lithographic plates, one plate loose with some peripheral faults. Gift inscription of 1920 at top of half-title.