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Click here to subscribePETER SNOW (1927-2008) A FOLIO OF CHARCOAL SKETCHES undertaken on the Artist's travels to places such as Florence, Sienna and Cairo, as well as domestic works Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the Slade School of Art
A FOLIO OF THEATRE POSTERS 1960's mainly American, some 'psychadelic' in design, also including a Theatre Workshops poster for 'Intrigue and Amours' produced by Joan Littlewood and designed by Peter Snow Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art
Full title: Alexandre Raymond, 1924: Vieilles Fa•ences turques en Asie-Mineure et a ConstantinopleDescription: Dim.: 51 x 37 cm (the cover)Ê Imperial folio (360 x 490 mm). Half cloth, boards with illustrated lithogr. title, inside covers and flaps with ornamental decoration printed in gold, green and blue. 12 pp. 40 lithogr. plates in colour, including 4 which are double-page. The first part was long considered lost.Ê Raymond's fine series of plates, which depict ceramics employed in architectural decoration and ceramic artefacts, deals mostly with in situ Iznik and Kütahya ceramics.Ê Ref.: - Sotheby's, London, Oct. 14, 2003, lot 402, for the second volume, where the catalogue note states 'Part 1 was never published. (link available on our website)- Sotheby's, London, Nov. 15, 2011, for a set including both volumes. (link available on our website)- Christie's, London, Sep. 21, 2005, for a set including both volumes, where the catalogue note states 'Sets of the French edition of parts I and II are rare at auction: no copies of either part I alone or parts I and II together are recorded by ABPC since 1975 and only two copies of part II are listed. (link available on our website)Condition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN. The Comet. Issue for May 1912, No. 9. The publisher's pre-production copy containing original manuscript text in red & black with some illuminated initials, together with original drawings, watercolours & etchings. Folio. Well worn card wrappers. Artists represented incl. P. F. Gethin, P. Bulcock, S. A. Gammell, B. (Bernard) Meninsky (head & shoulders pencil portrait of a girl), J. Rimmer (a "Gallery" of 20 caricature portraits presumably by John A. Rimmer, 1888-1968), W. R. Ellis etc.
WARRAND DUNCAN (Compiler). 2 large folio ledgers containing copious information of historical & antiquarian interest re. Invernesshire, the Highlands, the clans & Northern families (incl. Forbes of Culloden). Extensive manuscript notes & summaries, transcripts of documents, tipped in original 18th century documents, pasted-in manuscript & typescript information, etc. A mass of information, mainly under appropriate headings, which will certainly repay future study.
MOORE THOMAS. The Ferns of Great Britain & Ireland, edited by John Lindley, nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. 51 nature-printed col. plates, a further 34 monochrome plates of ferns from another work loosely slipped in. Folio. Rebound half green morocco incorporating orig. brds., some repairs noted to early & late leaves. Bradbury & Evans, 1855.
DUFF H. R., of Muirtown. Manuscript account & commonplace book with some cuttings & loose ephemera occupying the first 24pp of an otherwise largely blank folio volume. c.1814; with military commission (signd. by William IV) & various letters etc., & 2 later scrapbooks with views, cartoons etc., Warrand family, 1860s.
McNAB FRANCIS. Australia. 6 detailed manuscript letters, each a folded folio sheet "ship letter" of varying legibility (some written crossed across the paper) to his mother & family in Saltcoats, one of which gives his address as c/o Messrs Dunlop McNab & Coy., Melbourne, Port Phillip. Also another from Thomas McNab, another ex. Philadelphia & 2 others. C. early 1840s.
A QUANTITY OF LIMITED EDITION AND SIMILAR ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS including 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' Milton's Hymn with illustrations by William Blake; 'Art and the Spiritual Life' by J.G. Lubbock, Twelve-by-Eight press, 1967; 'The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Library', volume II, edited by E.V. Lucas, 1924, number 162 of 1500 copies; and a quantity of similar editions (31 volumes and a folio case of correspondence) Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: 'Salmacis and Hermaphroditus' a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont, edited by Gwyn Jones, with 10 engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright, Golden Cockerel Press, 1951, 10 wood engravings printed in colour, including title vignette (8 full-page), 2 colour wood engraved head-pieces, untrimmed, original quarter crushed blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, over green cloth, with matching slipcase, small folio, limited edition 36 of 80 especially-bound copies, signed by the editor and artistProvenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
A collection of 7 vintage 20th century Folio books to include Elizabeth R, Scotts Last Expedition, Rural Rides by William Corbett, The Boer War, England under the Tudors by Thomas Pakenham, The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood. Collection comes with 5 editions of the Slang and its Analogies.
A GROUP OF THREE WOODEN MEASURING/SURVEYING INSTRUMENTSIncluding a folding rule by Aston and Mander, London, early 20th century and earlierComprising a thirty-six inch brass mounted folding ruler with brass hinge and end pieces, divided for inches and stamped ASTON & MANDER MAKERS, 25 OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO, LONDON; an unusual brass mounted hinged distance caliper measure with brass locking lever and tips to each leg and incorporating pivoted notched cross-piece for locking the arms open at calibrated distances of 12, 24, 30, 33 and 40 inches to centre; a plumb square incorporating vertical reference line and aperture cut for a plumb bob, together with a mahogany folding portable folio stand opening to reveal central upright fitted with a pivoted stay beneath pairs of arms incorporating further end uprights and width extensions, (4).The caliper 91.5cm (36ins) long closed; the portable folio stand 23cm (9ins) long closed.
[Folio Society] Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of The Earth illustrated Grahame Baker 2001, The Tiger in the Smoke 2013 and Traitor’s Purse 2015 both by Margery Allingham, The Spy’s Bedside Book Edited by Graham & Hugh Greene 2006, Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene, Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood, The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, The Singing Sands and The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, The Folio Book of Short Stories (Henry James, D.H. Lawrence etc), all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] Scott's Last Expedition to the South Pole, Homer's Odyssey with lithographs by Elisabeth Frink 1974, Beowulf lithographs by Virgil Burnett 1973, Travels of Marco Polo, Queen Victoria; Our Life in the Highlands, The Gunpowder Plot 1973, Trial of Joan of Arc, Life of Alexander The Great, The Tudor Venturers, The Great Rebellion, Kings of Britain, The Bayeux Tapestry, The Hundred Years War etc, all but one in slipcases (21)
[Folio Society] Robert Graves Claudius The God and I, Claudius 1994-5 illustrated by Neil Packer, T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom 2000 and Revolt in the Desert, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Edmund Blunden Undertones of War 1989, The Long Weekend by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge 2009, Mass-Observation: Britain in the Second World War, The Siege of Delhi and The Relief of Lucknow by William Forbes-Mitchell, all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy with drawings by Feliks Topolski 1978, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady illustrated by Robin Jacques 1994, Vanity Fair by W.M Thackerary illustrated Roland Pym 1996, Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore 2009, Tom Jones by Fielding, Dumas, Sheridan Le Fanu, Trollope and Thomas Hardy, all in slipcases (10)
[Folio Society] The First Colonists Hakluyt's Voyages to North America 1986, Peter Whitfield Mapping The World A History of Exploration, Egypt Revealed Artist-Travellers in an Antique Land 1997, The Rosetta Stone The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs, C.W. Ceram's Gods, Graves and Scholars story of Archaeology, Historical Mysteries, Julius Caesar, The Spanish Armada and The Spanish Inquisition, Third Crusade, Siege and Fall of Troy plus three others, all in slipcases (14)
The Baronial Halls and Picturesque Edifices of England from Drawings by J.D. Harding, C. Cattermole, S. Prout etc the text by S.C. Hall embellished with numerous engravings on wood published Chapman & Hall 1848 in 2 volumes bound in half leather with gilt spines, Some of the Old Halls & Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk by the Late Edward Willins Architect 1890 with 50 plates in gilt lettered cloth, Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire by Lefroy with Etchings & Vignettes 1883, Cowdray & Easebourne Priory in the County of Sussex by Sir William H. St. John Hope 1919 limited to 400 copies (signed presentation copy) in half vellum, Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries by William Bliss Sanders, Architect with 30 illustrations 1894 folio in gilt cloth (6)
[Folio Society] The Prince & The Pauper by Mark Twain with coloured plates, Huckleberry Finn with wood engravings by Harry Brockway 1993, Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book illustrated by Detmold 1994, The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Lynch 1995 bound in silk, Lewis Carroll’s Alice illustrated by Tenniel in two volumes, Legends of King Arthur 2000, Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 1986, Robin Hood, A is for Ox and The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, all in slipcases (11)
[Folio Society] Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist being five volumes illustrated by Charles Keeping in illustrated cloth, Charles Dickens Bleak House with the original illustrations by "Phiz" and introduction by Peter Ackroyd, Christmas Books published 1988 with drawings by Keeping, Dickens' London with engravings by Cruikshank with a copy of My Early Times by Dickens, last four in slipcases (9)
[Folio Society] Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles with lino-cuts by Edward Bawden 1987 and The Lost World 1977, Ghost Stories & other Horrid Tales 1997, Crime Stories from The Strand (including Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie) 1991, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 1997, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson The Body-Snatcher & Other Stories illustrated by Michael Forman 2007, H.G. Wells Short Stories 1990 and Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes, all in slipcases (9)
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