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Auction No 402, Tag: Josiah Wedgwood

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Josiah C. and Joshua G.E. Wedgwood "Wedgwood Pedigrees", Titus Wilson, 1925; quarter vellum with silver title, pictorial boards, minor wear;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Josiah C. and Joshua G.E. Wedgwood Wedgwood Pedigrees, Titus Wilson, 1925; quarter vellum with silver title, pictorial boards, minor wear; uncut two sides; bookplate of Reginald Bladen; some slight spotting mostly confined to foredge and folding plate at rear; ix,384pp. Together with Robert Nicholls The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 1930, orig.cloth; and three related softbacks. Good/Fine (5)

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[Josiah Wedgwood] "Account of the Barberini, now Portland Vase", privately printed, c.1786, extra-illustrated with 20 contemp. engravings & drawings,

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £770
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[Josiah Wedgwood] Account of the Barberini, now Portland Vase, privately printed, c.1786, extra-illustrated with 20 contemp. engravings & drawings, with cut autograph of Josiah Wedgwood dated 1770 laid down beneath a fine pencil drawing of him, the book further inscribed From the Author at head of half-title; an alteration to the brief preface and the deletion of 6 lines of text to page 9 are in another hand. A presentation copy to Charles Townley, collector of antiquities, with seven pages of manuscript letters and a quotation from Erasmus Darwin's Economy in Townley's hand bound in at rear. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt ruling and title, showing some wear. Bookplate of Henry Beaufoy; cutting from an old bookseller's catalogue tipped on to reverse of front endpaper. Some light browning o/w VG internally and a unique copy of this book.