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Auction No 409, Category: Literature

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Arthur Rackham coloured plates, a selection from disbound copies of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" 1908 (15) and the 1914 edition (6),

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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Arthur Rackham coloured plates, a selection from disbound copies of A Midsummer Night's Dream 1908 (15) and the 1914 edition (6), and Rip Van Winkle 1905 (12); all VG/fine, tipped on to the original backing pages, most with the titled tissue-guards. (33 plates)

Thomas Archer "Charles Dickens: A Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters. With Eighteen full-page Sketches…by Frederick Barnard".

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £92
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Thomas Archer Charles Dickens: A Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters. With Eighteen full-page Sketches…by Frederick Barnard. Cassell & Co and Waverley Book Co., folio, complete in 6 parts, each in the illustrated boards, part 6 dust-affected o/w VG; the plates with varying degrees of foxing, occasionally affecting the text. 

Edmund Dulac (illustrator) "Stories from the Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman", Hodder & Stoughton 1907; poor condition

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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 Edmund Dulac (illustrator) Stories from the Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman, Hodder & Stoughton 1907; poor condition but still with 45 of 50 fine tissue-guarded plates.     

P.G. Wodehose Everyman’s Library Editions, 2000 to 2012, a VF collection of 24 different titles (plus a duplicate),

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £44
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P.G. Wodehouse Everyman's Library Editions, 2000 to 2012, a VF collection of 24 different titles (plus a duplicate), all in the Andrzej Klimowski illustrated jackets, fine, mylar-proteted, including Frozen Assets, Blandings Castle etc; plus two other Wodehouse titles from the Autograph edition in toned jackets, Yours Plum, The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse, and three biographical works. Good/VF (31)

Edwin Arnold "The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation", Kegan Paul, 1908, special edition bound in full vellum, gilt, slightly marked o/w VG;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Edwin Arnold The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation, Kegan Paul, 1908, special edition bound in full vellum, gilt, slightly marked o/w VG; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; light browning to endpapers and the margins of the tissue-guarded photogravure plates.