GEORGE CAMERON FOLEY (SCOTTISH b.FALKIRK 1910) MANUSCRIPT FOR PENIKINS with sketches, cartoons and plans MANUSCRIPT for another novel with handwritten and typewritten elements, and a smaller cartoon booklet A FOLIO of articles, prints and annotated photographs relating to his life and studio practice, including 'Be an artist in tempera and oils' by G Cameron Foley THE CAT SAT ON THE MAT, Photograph and text for teaching purposes, 'For Scottish Schools' label verso Foley was a painter, engraver, sculptor, designer, author and illustrator. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, despite paralysis in his right arm and hand, he showed artistic talent and hence won a scholarship. He travelled extensively throughout Europe, including during WW11. Some travels are recorded in his extensive artworks and include Hungary-Budapest, Germany- Frieburg, Venice, Brittany, Paris. Foley wrote and illustrated Every initially in Boness and later on in Richmond. Childs Book of Painting (1961) and Be a Watercolour Artist (1970). He wrote and drew sketches for Punch and other satirical magazines and London papers. He illustrated various books and book covers for leading publishers and was the official artist to ?The Dancing Times and Ballroom Dancing Times. George was a great storyteller and wrote some stories?not all published?Little Giant, Penikins, WWII thriller espionage. He exhibited at RSA from 1938. Condition Report:Available upon request
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A good lot of The Folio Society books with Ten Days that Shook the World, Letter from America, The Cream of Noel Coward, The Genius of James Thurber, The Complete Molesworth, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Anthony Trollope, The Pick of Punch, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, Pepys Diary, The Mapp and Lucia Novels, The Greek Myths together with the German translation of John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain (15) Condition Report:Available upon request
BINDINGS from Daniell's `Oriental Scenery` (two, I-II and III-IV series); another for `Antiquities of India` and `Excavations of Ellora`; another for `German School - D. Chodowiecki 7`; and another folio of blank pages, the cover with gilt coat of arms (`At Spes No Fracta`), each crimson half- or full morocco with gilt tooling, the largest 92 x 61cm. (5) ++ Scuffs and wear; fair only
LESTER EPSTEIN (American, 1919-1963) AN INTERESTING FOLIO OF THE ARTIST'S WORK Comprising a total of approximately 170 items: drawings, watercolours, collages, etchings, some monoprints and similar prints (many of the prints duplicated), many items signed, various sizes (folio) * Epstein studied at the Isaac Delgardo Museum of Art and later served as a registrar there. He was integral to the artistic community in New Orleans and was known by some as the `St Louis Gauguin`. He wrote and published a few books in the late 1950s and met John Skeaping in Mexico (see Skeaping's `The Big Tree of Mexico`, London, 1952, chapter 12). Epstein stayed with the artist and his family in Devon although they briefly shared a house in Arles in 1960. These varied and imaginative works reflect the influence of artists such as Klee, Miro and Wilfredo Lam Provenance: John Skeaping RA; and thence by descent ++ Fair-good overall; many in good condition, some with creases, handling marks and light wear
![CROMBIE, Charles, The Laws of Cricket, oblong folio [1907]. Original cloth-backed pictorial printed boards. With 12 chromo pl](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/110d1b27-1440-494f-92c6-ae0100b9f5e6/c2e2696f-62f8-4c35-98bd-aebf0106d769/468x382.jpg)
CAMDEN, William, Britannia, 1st Gough edition 1789. 3 vols folio. Extra illustrated. With 87 plates, 57 maps and 63 additional plates. Fine contemporary binding in diced Russia, gilt tooled spine, marbled end papaers, yellow edges. Contents are very clean. Bookplate of Thomas Walford, FAS, FLS, Birdbrook House, Essex. An exceptionally attractive copy (3)
HOLY BIBLE, large folio, Oxford 1795. Black calf, neatly rebacked with old spine relaid. 'Charles Chetwynd, Earl Talbot, 1802' blocked in gilt on front cover. With a matching Book of Common Prayer, lacking title, some leaves defective. With another folio Book of Common Prayer, Oxford 1841, defective and a 4to Victorian family bible, 1860 (4) (box)
JOSEPHUS, Flavius, Opera Omnia. Folio, 2 vols 1726. Old calf, bindings defective. With ARISTOTLE, Opera Omnium, folio, Paris 1654. 4 vols, Greek and Latin text. Boards detached. With THOU, Jacques Angustus de, Historiarum Sui Temporis. Aurelianae, 1620. 5 vols, vol 1 lacking title. With other vols. Sold with all faults (16) (4 boxes)
RICHARDSON, William, architect, and CHURTON, Edward, The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, 2 vols folio, York 1843 - 55. WIth engraved title and 53 half page or full page plates and plans and a map. This set has been bound in 3 vols and lacks vol 2, containing pages 41 - 66 and corresponding plates (Abbey plates 24 to 56). Half morocco, boards, damp marked. Abbey, Scenery, 381 (2)
SCRAP ALBUM, large oblong folio circa 1850. With numerous engravings. With another scrap album, oblong folio, dated June 1870, with mainly wood-engraved newspaper scraps stuck to linen pages. With GRUNER, Lewis. Scripture Prints from the Frescoes of Raphael in the Vatican. Oblong folio 1866 (3)
PICARD, Bernard. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres. Folio, 5 vols, Amsterdam 1723 - 37. With 160 plates (28 double page, one folding and one in colour). Contemporary calf, boards detached on vol 1. Marbled endpapers, red edges. Bookplates of John Smith Esq, C J Fletcher Dale Park, and the Earl of Essex
JONSTON, John Historia Naturalis. Book 5, De Piscibus et Cetis. Engraved title and 47 plates. Bound with Book 4, Exanguibus Aquaticus, Frankfort 1650. With 21 plates (numbered I - XX. Plate II is in 2 states). Plate X is bound in upside down. Folio, contemporary calf.The plates have been collated and book is as catalogued. Binding is firm but beginning to split at the head and tail of spine. Scattered spotting. Index at end is browned.
A William IV or early Victorian rosewood and mahogany portfolio stand, circa 1830-40, the hinged rectangular side panels ratcheted and individually adjustable above turned stretchers on compressed bun-feet, 72cm wide x 67cm deep x 111cm high.Footnote: A design for a similar folio stand was published by William Smee and Son in their Designs for Furniture, 1850-55. For a near identical example, see Christie's South Kensington, The Winkworth Collection: A Treasure House Of Canadiana In London, 1 April 2015, lot 25.Veneer loss and lifting to one of the supports. Losses to mouldings around base of side supports on both sides. Loss to disc cap at the terminal of one support. Loss to turned disc cap to centre of support on one side. Minor cosmetic marks in places, none disfiguring.
A box set of annotated Shakespeare, a similar set of Dickens, and set of four Folio Society volumes on the Book of Thousand Nights and One Night. (AF) This lot is situated in 14 East St, Horncastle, LN9 6AZ for Viewing on Tuesday 5th July 10am to 2pm with collection strictly restricted to Friday 8th July.
Folio edition, The Book of The Dead, facsimiles of Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemot 1899. Small hole lower right of page to first 19 pages. Cover has various use marks and wear to the corners, pencil notation to inner cover. Small amount of foxing to inner covers and tears to base of two title pages, generally good/fair condition for age. P&P Group 3 (£25+VAT for the first lot and £5+VAT for subsequent lots)
FOLIO SOCIETY; various hardback books, mainly fiction to include J R R Tolkein 'Lord of the Rings', Charles Dickens, Herman Melville 'Moby Dick', Robert Graves 'Goodbye to All That', Anthony Trollope 'Barchester Towers', also 'The Private Lives of the Tudor Monarchs', 'Wren's London', Venice: The Most Triumphant City', etc (37).
FOLIO SOCIETY; various titles comprising Charles Darwin' On the Origin of Species', Richard Dawkins 'The Selfish Gene', 'Gormenghast', Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', and 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe', Robert Graves 'The Golden Fleece' and 'British Myths and Legends' (7).
FOLIO SOCIETY; various titles comprising John Ruskin 'The Stones of Venice', Alexandre Dumas 'The Count of Monte Cristo', Charlotte Emmeline Anne Bronte 'The Complete Novels', 'The Folio Poets: Kipling and John Keats', Andrew Land and Charles Van Sandwyk 'The Blue Fairy Book', Kenneth Grahame 'The Wind In The Willows', John Bunyan 'Pilgrim's Progress', and Kevin Crossley-Holland 'King of the Middlemarch' (9).
ANDREW LANG & CHARLES VAN SANDWYK; a set of twelve Rainbow Fairy Books, published by The Folio Society, comprising 'The Brown Fairy Book' 2010, 'The Grey Fairy Book' 2013, 'The Olive Fairy Book' 2012, 'The Pink Fairy Book' 2007, 'The Orange Fairy Book' 2007, 'The Red Fairy Book' 2008, 'The Yellow Fairy Book' 2008, The Violet Fairy Book' 2010, 'The Blue Fairy Book' 2003, 'The Green Fairy Book' 2009, 'The Crimson Fairy Book' and 'The Lilac Fairy Book', all in slipcases, the latter two examples still sealed in their original wrapping (12).
Box of literary volumes and antiquarian books, to include: 'The First Folio of Shakespeare' the Norton Facsimile in original box, 3 volumes of Jane Austin novels, by 'the Folio Society' on original box, 'Pluarch Lives' 4 volumes in original box and 4 volumes of 'Memoirs of William Hickey' edited by Alfred Spencer and printed by Hurst & Blackett Ltd, these editions reprinted in 1948. (B.P. 21% + VAT)
NO RESERVE Guinegault (G.P.).- Noury (Jean) Heures Galantes: Quatres Poèmes, out-of-series copy of an edition limited to 500 copies signed in pencil by the artist below first illustration, 4 superb pochoir circular illustrations heightened with gold or silver by Georges Pierre Guinegault, loose as issued in original wrappers with pochior illustration to upper cover, lightly soiled, [Paris], Galerie Lutétia, [c.1930]; and 2 other copies, one defective, folio (3)
NO RESERVE Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social, & Literary Wares, 4 vol. only comprising vol. 12-14 & 18, 104 chromolithographs, scattered spotting, bookplate, vol. 13 with broken lower joint, original cloth, bumping to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, folio, 1874-77.
Epstein (Jacob) Epstein: Seventy-Five Drawings, one of 220 copies signed by the artist, plates, hinges broken, original vellum, lettered in black, slip-case rather worn and repaired, oblong folio, 1929.⁂ Tipped in at the front is a pencil tracing of plate 36 signed 'Jacob Epstein' but not in the artist's hand.
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