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LOT 3061
LOT 3061
FRANCE, Anatole. L'ile Des Pingouins. Paris: Editions Lapina, 1926. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 494 of 500 copies only, 4to (314 x 216mm.) 20 etched plates and 131 woodcut illustrations with colour in the text, tissue-guards. (Toning, occasional spotting, uncut leaves.) Original printed card wrappers (some loss to spine ends), glassine dust-jackets (browning, some loss at spine ends) (2).
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LOT 3062
LOT 3062
DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales… retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1921.] 4to (252 x 188mm.) 30 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. (Toning, colour plate at p.42 partially cut, no loss.) Original russet cloth, pictorial gilt (chafing to spine ends, endpapers replaced, faint spotting to upper cover).
Hammer Price: £140
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LOT 3063
LOT 3063
BINDING. - Arthur RACKHAM (illustrator) and J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912.] New edition, 4to (271 x 206mm.) 50 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham, uncoloured illustrations. (Toning, offsetting, some browning and marginal spotting throughout.) Near contemporary brown half-calf bound by Bumpus, g.e. (lightly rubbed, minor mark to lower cover).
Hammer Price: £240
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LOT 3064
LOT 3064
BINDING. - Arthur RACKHAM (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to (242 x 173mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham. (Toning, browning, spotting to first and last leaves.) Near contemporary red full morocco bound by Bickers & Son, armorial gilt of Tonbridge School to both covers, g.e. Provenance: A. Waterlow (a school prize certificate to front pastedown).
Hammer Price: £240
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LOT 3065
LOT 3065
BINDING. - John MILTON. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books… with Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. London: for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1749. 2 vols., new edition, 4to (278 x 205mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispieces by G. Vertue and 12 engraved plates after F. Hayman, 12pp. 'List of the Subscribers' in volume 1, 'Index' at rear of volume 2. (Toning, some offsetting of plates, later tissue-guards to frontispieces bound-in, blanks replaced.) Early 20th century cream vellum bound by Chas E. Lauriat with an Art Nouveau gilt rosette decoration, two red and one brown original morocco lettering pieces to the spines, floral gilt turn-ins with dots and inner dentelle, g.e. (endpapers replaced).
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LOT 3066
LOT 3066
ART DECO. - Claude LINOSSIER (illustrator) and Maurice de GUERIN. Le Centaure. Lyon: Audin pour Le Cercle Gryphe, 1929. Limited edition of 133 copies only, this being unnumbered and out-of-series, 4to (282 x 229mm.) 73 woodcuts by Phillipe-Charles Burnot after designs by Claude Linossier in red and black, many enhanced with silver. (Spotting to the first quire, toning.) Original card covers, unbound as issued (light rubbing to extremities). Note: the first book published by the Le Cercle Gryphe and the only book illustrated by the Art Deco coppersmith Claude Linossier.
Hammer Price: £420
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LOT 3067
LOT 3067
BALLET. - [Ivchenko VALERIEN I.] 'V. Svetlov'. Sovremennyi Balet [The Modern Ballet]. St. Petersburg: R. Golike & Vilborg, 1911. First edition, large 8vo (305 x 208mm.) Numerous colour plates, uncoloured photographic plates, some mounted, after Lé+on Bakst, Benois, Golovin, Kustodiev, Serov and Roerich, tissue-guards. (Toning, three loose plates, occasional creasing or soiling of tissue-guards.) Original cloth (lower cover detached, worn). Note: an early work on modern Russian ballet, with special emphasis on Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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LOT 3068
LOT 3068
BINDING. - Mary Russell MITFORD. Our Village. London: Macmillan and Co., December 1893. Large Paper edition, this being one of 470 copies only, 4to (257 x 168mm.) Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illustrations by Hugh Thomson. (Toning, marginal tear to p.xxv.) Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in burgundy morocco over red cloth, t.e.g. (minor finger-marks to upper cover).
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LOT 3069
LOT 3069
AMHERST, Alicia. A History of Gardening in England. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895. First edition, signed by the author, large 8vo (250 x 164mm.) Half-title, illustrations. (Toning, spotting verso the endpapers.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, t.e.g. Note: signed and inscribed by Alicia Amherst to 'Rosie and Harry, with every good wish from the author, Jan 16th 1896'.
Hammer Price: £80
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LOT 3070
LOT 3070
BINDING. - Arthur RACKHAM (illustrator) and [Richard Harris BARHAM]. 'Thomas INGOLDSBY'. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898. First Rackham edition, 8vo (186 x 117mm.) 12 colour plates by Rackham, numerous illustrations in the text. (Mild toning, spotting to preliminaries.) Near contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt crossed swords as corner-pieces, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbed to extremities).
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LOT 3071
LOT 3071
CLARKE, Harry (illustrator). - Edgar Allan POE. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919. First edition, 4to (267 x 203mm.) 24 black and white plates by Harry Clarke. (Toning, occasional browning.) Original reversed calf, t.e.g. (some loss to spine ends, upper cover warping).
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LOT 3072
LOT 3072
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Hansel and Grethel & Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1920. 4to (248 x 178mm.) 20 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham, numerous black and white illustrations in the text, half-title. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (gilt faded to spine, lightly rubbed extremities, scuff mark to upper cover).
Hammer Price: £85
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LOT 3073
LOT 3073
FARLEIGH, John (illustrator). - PINDAR. Pindarou Epinikia [in Greek.] Pindar's Odes of Victory, the Nemean and Isthmian Odes. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Limited edition, this being number 175 of 200 copies only, 4to (281 x 186mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations by John Farleigh. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine (rubbing to extremities, sunning to edges, mark to lower cover). Provenance: Greta Trussart (gift inscribed from the initial blank).
Hammer Price: £55
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LOT 3074
LOT 3074
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Richard BARHAM.] 'Thomas Ingoldsby'. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to (254 x 188mm.) 24 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham with captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking initial blank, minor marks to endpapers.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt (light rubbing, fading). - And a further three volumes illustrated by Rackham (including Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'A Wonder Book', [circa 1922], 4to, and Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', 1937, 4to, and Algernon Charles Swinburne's 'The Springtide of Life', 1918, 4to) (4).
Hammer Price: £140
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LOT 3075
LOT 3075
ROBINSON, W. Heath. Uncle Lubin. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, small 4to (202 x 153mm.) Numerous illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Six or seven illustrations with later crayon hand-colouring, lacking frontispiece and front-free endpaper, toning.) Original pictorial cloth (hinges weakening, soiling to covers and fading to spine, rubbing).
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LOT 3076
LOT 3076
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Thomas MALORY. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table…abridged by Alfred W. Pollard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 4to (282 x 117mm.) 16 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within.) Original white morocco, pictorial gilt to upper cover (surface loss to spine, rubbing to extremities). - And a further six volumes illustrated by Rackham (including 'Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales' by the Brothers Grimm, [1917], 4to) (7).
Hammer Price: £380
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LOT 3077
LOT 3077
[HENNING OTTO HARRY, Hans, Baron von Voight.] 'Alistair' (illustrator). - Abbé PRÉVOST. Manon Lescaut, translated from the French… by D.C. Moylan. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1928. Limited edition, this being number 1169 of 1850 copies, 4to (316 x 248mm.) Introduction by Arthur Symons, colour plates by 'Alistair' with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original grey cloth (minor rubbing to spine ends, fading, some finger-marks). - And a further thirteen illustrated volumes (including 'Jeremy Taylor: A Selection From His Works Made by Martin Armstrong', 1923, 4to, and J.M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, [circa 1920], 4to) (14).
Hammer Price: £110
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LOT 3078
LOT 3078
DETMOLD, Edward J. (illustrator). The Fables of Aesop. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Limited edition, this being number 110 of 750 copies signed by the illustrator, 4to (308 x 250mm.) 25 tipped-in colour plates by Detmold. (Light browning to endpapers, toning, small corner crease to one plate, occasional finger-mark.) Original cream cloth with eagle motif in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (browning to spine, some finger-marks to lower cover), slipcase (worn).
Hammer Price: £600
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LOT 3079
LOT 3079
TRAVEL. - Wilfred THESIGER. Desert Marsh and Mountain. London: Collins, 1979. Limited edition, this being number 160 of 160 copies signed by the author, large 8vo (270 x 203mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original brown half morocco covers, gilt lettering to the spine, g.e. (staining to the spine, marginal spotting to covers, lacking slipcase). Provenance: 'R.F.' (ink inscribed to the limitation page).
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LOT 3080
LOT 3080
DAVENPORT ADAMS, W.H. The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1858. Small folio (273 x 208mm.) 26 engraved plates, 2 lithographed plates with colour, 1 large folding lithographed map to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting and minor soiling.) Original red cloth with decorative gilt, g.e. (fading, rubbing and some wear to all extremities, repair at top of spine, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Edmund Kell (gift inscribed from in ink on the initial blank); John Smale (gift inscribed to in ink on the initial blank). - And a further seven volumes relating to the Isle of Wight (including William Cooke's 'A New Picture of the Isle of Wight', 1808, 8vo, and Thomas Barber's 'Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight', [circa 1834], 8vo) (8).
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