Modern Literature, Illustrated Books and Original Artwork

Chagall (Marc) Lithographe I, first edition, 10 lithographs and illustrations by Chagall, including the dust-jacket and frontispiece (of 12, lacki...

Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, 9 issues, vol.1. no.1, complete with 4 lithographs, some biro annotations, becoming disbound, December ...

Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, vol.8, no.29/30: Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso, 16 colour lithographs including frontispiece and titl...

Cadell (F.C.B.) Jack and Tommy, 20 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and discoloure...

Greenaway (Kate) Under the Window, first edition, first issue with "end of contents", a few ink soiling marks, original cloth-backed boards, light...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Heath Robinson (W.).- Poe (Edgar Allan) The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, first edition, ...

Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, first issue with 'L'Envoi' leaf present, upper hinge cracked, contemporary ink ownership name ...

Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first Wilcox Smith illustrated edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith, captioned tissue-g...

Lang (Andrew, editor) The True Story Book, seventh impression, publisher's ephemera loosely inserted, light toning strip to endpaper, original bli...

Masefield (John) The Midnight Folk, illustrations by Roland Hilder, ink ownership inscription and light foxing on half-title, original cloth, ligh...

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, deluxe issue with 'wept big tears' on p.51 and bound in mustard-yellow cloth rathe...

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, first or second printing with date on title and "muffatees" to p.15, frontispiece working loose, marg...

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr Tod, ink ownership inscription dated "Feb. 23rd '13" to half-title, extremities slightly rubbed, minor shelf-lean,...

Rackham (Arthur).- Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) Little Brother & Little Sister, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham, some creasing to c...

Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, number 190 of 1150 copies signed by the illustrator, 34 tipped-in colour plates ...

Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, 34 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham, occasional light spotting, spine ends lig...

Austen (John) "Hearts' Grow Fonder...", an original illustration from an unknown publication, pen and black ink, signed and inscribed, sheet 255 x...

Rupert Bear.- A Collection of 44 Rupert Bear Annuals, illustrations by Mary Tourtel, original wrappers or boards, some rubbed, one or two spines l...

Baynes (Pauline) Original illustration for 'A Calendar of Birds', or 'Birds of the month', 12 vignettes of various birds on one sheet, within orig...

Brock (Charles Edward) Twenty-five original illustrations for "The Golden Staircase" by Louey Chisholm, including three title-page or frontispiece...

Brock (Henry Matthew) Twenty-two original illustrations for various poems and publications, including Matthew Arnold's 'The Forsaken Merman', J.H....

Fraser (Eric) Original illustration, possibly for The Merchant of Venice, from 'The Tudor edition of William Shakespeare The Complete Works', pen ...

Detmold (Charles Maurice) Original illustration for 'The Penguin', from Maurice and Edward Detmold's 'Pictures from Birdland', pen and ink, waterc...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Roses in a bowl, watercolour and bodycolour, signed with initials in the lower right corner, 322 x 326 mm (12 3/4 x 12 7/8...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Four variant working proof impressions of 'Rhinoceros, Elephant, and Crane in Jungle vegetation', etchings and drypoint, f...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Sunset with camel drovers and elephant, etching and aquatint printed in colours on thin chine, signed in pencil and number...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Summer Solstice, etching and aquatint printed in colours on thin chine, signed in pencil and numbered from an edition of 1...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Six variant working proof impressions of 'Ape', etchings and drypoint with aquatint, four states with an impression of eac...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Four variant working proof impressions of 'Horse',  etchings and drypoint, printing with different degrees of plate tone a...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Desert sunset with camels [two variant impressions], etchings and aquatint printed in colours on thin chine, variant colou...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Four published impressions of 'Rhinoceros, Elephant, and Crane in Jungle vegetation', etchings and drypoint, one inscribed...

Detmold (Edward Julius) Two working proof impressions, and two published state impressions of 'Peacocks', etchings and drypoint, all four signed i...

Detmold (Edward Julius) The Captive, etching printed in brownish black ink, signed in pencil, on thin cream laid paper, lightly affixed at corners...

Dulac (Edmund).- Indian School (late 19th or early 20th century) Four original illuminated manuscripts from the collection of Dulac, apparently us...

Dulac (Edmund) Five original illustrations and studies, including study of a male dancer, a portrait and hand study of Edith Jackson, journalist a...

Dulac (Edmund) Original illustration with lady playing the harp to four seated women wearing headdresses, possibly for 'Stories from the Arabian N...

Greenaway (Kate) Original illustration of a garden scene with various young ladies platting hair and tending to plants, with a suitor arriving, pe...

Jessop (Ernest Maurice) Three original illustrations for Thomas Ingoldsby's 'Netley Abbey', watercolour over traces of pencil on artist's board, e...

Knowles (Reginald) Collection of 35 original illustrations, including decorative borders, initials, and text layout designs, many for the publishe...

Nielsen (Kay) Sheet of head studies, and a knife in a lemon, pen and black ink, chalk, watercolour, signed lower left, inscribed in pencil lower r...

Philately.- Dulac (Edmund) Collection of over 65 original studies and tracings of designs for postage and national insurance stamps, including pos...

Rackham (Arthur) Original illustration for the upper cover and title of 'Tales from Shakespeare', pen and black ink on tracing paper, over traces ...

Robinson (Charles) Six original illustrations for A.A. Milne's 'Once On A Time', and other publications, four large landscape, two smaller, pen an...

Shepard (Ernest Howard) Five original illustrations, three for 'Everybody's Boswell', including 'A Fall from Power' from Laurence Housman's 'Victo...

Shepard (Ernest Howard) Four original illustrations for 'Everybody's Lamb', including the illustrated title-page, pen and inks, some white heighte...

Sullivan (Edmund Joseph) Three original illustrations for various Shakespeare plays, including "Cymbeline", "Comedy of Errors", "Love Labours Lost...

Sullivan (Edmund Joseph) Seven original book illustrations for Oliver Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield' and other publications, watercolours, one p...

Tenniel (John).- Dalziel Brothers, after. Original manuscript text of 'The Mock Turtle's Story', with inset drawings, 4pp., pen and ink, light spo...

Theatre.- Shakespeare.- Nash (John) “The Judgement Scene”, an original illustration for Shakespeare's 'The tragedie of King Lear : newly printed f...

Theatre.- Beaton (Cecil) Original set design for Frederick Ashton's New York City ballet 'Picnic at Tintagel', brush and ink, watercolour, gouache...

B.J. Simmons & Co. (Theatrical Court Costumers) Collection of over 100 original theatrical costume designs, including costume designs for importan...

Theatre.- Motley Group (The) Two original costume designs for 'Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel', Elstree Film Studios, watercolour on cream wo...

Theatre.- Pogedaieff (Georges Anatolievich) Original costume design for 'Mandarin', probably from Max Reinhardt's production of Franz Grillparzer'...

Theatre.- Zinkeisen (Doris Clare) Two costume designs of Japanese and Middle Eastern inspired dress for "Samarkand", Richmond Theatre, An Oriental...

Thomson (Hugh) Five original artworks for 'Days With Sir Roger De Coverley', pen and black inks, some heightened with white, traces of pencil unde...

Thomson (Hugh) Four original illustrations for 'Coridon's Song And other Verses', including one sheet with 7 illustrated initials affixed, pen and...

Thomson (Hugh) "The Tall Miss Pittmans", an original illustration for an unknown publication, pen and inks, signed and inscribed along the lower e...

Thomson (Hugh) Twelve original illustrations for various publications, including illustrations for 'A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath', the title ...

Thomson (Hugh) "The Ladies fixed their gaze on him", an original illustration for George Eliot's 'Scenes of Clerical Life', pen and black ink, ove...

Wainwright (Albert) and others. Collection of 9 original illustrations of landscapes and architecture, including one stage design by Wainwright, a...