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Auction No 409, Category: Illustrated

15 Lots (displaying 1 - 15)

Louis Wain assortment including "Louis Wain’s Annual 1910-11" and "1911-12" plus "Tinker,Tailor illustrated by Louis Wain", all in poor condition;

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
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Louis Wain assortment including Louis Wain's Annual 1910-11 and 1911-12 plus Tinker, Tailor illustrated by Louis Wain, all in poor condition; plus 15 loose coloured plates (laid down on thick paper), and other hand-coloured illustrations including two in card mounts

"Louis Wain’s Annual 1912"; "Merry Times with Louis Wain"; "Louis Wain’s Baby’s Picture Book", 1903; and "In Louis Wain Land"

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Louis Wain's Annual 1912; Merry Times with Louis Wain; Louis Wain's Baby's Picture Book, 1903; and In Louis Wain Land (with 7 colour plates, 3 damaged). Poor condition, with loose pages and other faults. (4)

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)

Margaret Tarrant selection comprising "Alice in Wonderland" (2 copies, one lacking 4 of the 48 plates), "Joan in Flowerland" (3 copies,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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Margaret Tarrant selection comprising Alice in Wonderland (2 copies, one lacking 4 of the 48 plates), Joan in Flowerland (3 copies, one with a coloured plate torn), and Margaret Tarrant's Christmas Garland; together with around 200 loose plates in a folder. Some mixed condition but the plates generally fine.

Carton of illustrated children’s books (20), all with coloured plates, notably Anne Anderson, plus Arthur Rackham (2), Kate Greenaway (4),

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £70
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Carton of illustrated children's books (20), all with coloured plates, notably Anne Anderson, plus Arthur Rackham (2), Kate Greenaway (4), Walter Crane (2), Detmold and Willebeek Le Mair. Also loose pages from works by Walter Crane. Very mixed condition.

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.     

"Trafalgar, illustrated by W.J. Ellam", Castell Bros, London, [1891], a crest-shaped booklet, chromo-litho boards & six illustrations,

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Trafalgar, illustrated by W.J. Ellam, Castell Bros, London, [1891], a crest-shaped booklet, chromo-litho boards & six illustrations, plus title page & 5pp of verse etc. Some offset from the illustrations. Recently strengthened with additional stitching o/w VG. Scarce

"Le Décor de Votre Reve est dans Cette Collection", 1920s, landscape quarto, original wraps, creasing at one corner, 12 full-page colour plates

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Le Décor de Votre Reve est dans Cette Collection, 1920s, landscape quarto, original wraps, creasing at one corner, 12 full-page colour plates of art-deco interiors. Title page a little soiled o/w VG.

M.D. Wyatt "The Art of Illuminating", Day & Son, 1860, the text & plates loose & incomplete; 72 plates remain, mostly fine, 5 with foxing.

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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M.D. Wyatt The Art of Illuminating, Day & Son, 1860, the text & plates loose & incomplete; 72 plates remain, mostly fine, 5 with foxing.

G.E. Studdy "The Bonzo Book, being the Third Studdy Dogs Portfolio", large format, 33.5 x 25.5cm, pictorial wraps badly frayed & detached,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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G.E. Studdy The Bonzo Book, being the Third Studdy Dogs Portfolio, large format, 33.5 x 25.5cm, pictorial wraps badly frayed & detached, the contents loose but complete & clean, with title page and 15 plates; includes three on golf humour.

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

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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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: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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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).

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

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £140
SOLD £50
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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)  

J. Britton & E.W. Brayley "Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett, &c."

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £62
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J. Britton & E.W. Brayley Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett, &c. H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson 1832; quarto, half-leather, gilt, worn at corners and at top & tail of spine; engraved title pages, two maps and 138 steel-engraved plates. Occasional foxing, mostly to plate margins. Rear inner hinge cracked, requiring repair.