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Click here to subscribeRavilious (Eric) The Wood Engravings..., introduction by J.M.Richards, number 142 of an unspecified number, text printed on pale grey paper, plates and illustrations, 3 folding, first issue binding of original pictorial hessian printed with illustrations in black, spine browned (as usual), cloth slip-case, folio, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1972.
NO RESERVE Stephens (Ian).- Lees-Milne (James) Ruthenshaw: a Ghost Story, wood-engravings by Ian Stephens, with original signed pencil & gouache drawing for the large wood-engraving and 4 additional signed wood-engravings loosely inserted, drawing tipped into hinged card mount, original wrappers, printed at the Libanus Press, 1994 § Stephens (Ian) The Engraver's Cut, number 22 of 135 copies signed by the artist, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, slip-case, Bicester, 2001 § Woodforde (Rev. James) The Diary of a Country Parson, original cloth-backed marbled boards, slip-case, Folio Society, 1992, all with wood-engravings by Ian Stephens, 4to & 8vo (3)
Stone (Reynolds) Engravings, with an Introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark, number 64 of 150 copies signed by the artist and with an original signed wood-engraving, illustrations, some printed in red or grey, wood-engraving loose in folder and loosely inserted, with 2 bookplates by Stone (for David John Gilson and Peter Summers) and service sheet for his Memorial Service loosely inserted, original cloth, t.e.g., spine faded, marbled board slip-case, 1977 § Harvey (Michael) Reynolds Stone: Engraved Lettering in Wood, one of 270 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, slip-case, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1992, tall 8vo & small folio (2)
NO RESERVE Strachey (Lytton) Ermyntrude and Esmeralda, an entertainment, number 152 of 250 copies, signed by the artist on title, illustrations by Erté, original cloth, gilt, g.e., slip-case to same design, 1969 § Shirley Smith (Richard) The Paintings & Collages 1957 to 2000, number 90 of 150 copies signed by the author with 2 original signed wood-engravings in pocket at end, prospectus & price list loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slip-case, 2002 § Palmer (Simon) Pebbles on a Beach, number 520 of 750 copies signed by the author/artist, original cloth, Tunbridge Wells, 1990 § Fitzgerald (F.Scott) Tender is the Night, colour plates by Glynn Boyd Harte, original cloth, slip-case, Folio Society, 1987 § Browne (Piers) Wensleydale: Etchings & Verse, original boards, dust-jacket, Leatherhead, 1994, plates and illustrations, some colour; and c.15 others, illustrated, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
NO RESERVE White (Ethelbert).- Chapman (Hilary) The Wood Engravings of Ethelbert White, one of 200 sets with 2 original engravings by White, original pictorial wrappers, uncut, engravings tipped into hinged card mounts, together in original cloth drop-back box, illustration mounted on upper cover, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1991; and 2 others, White, folio & 4to (3)
Wood Lea Press.- Greenwood (Jeremy) Omega Cuts, one of 555 copies, original cloth, 1998; The Graphic Work of Edward Wadsworth, one of 500 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, original boards, 2002, illustrations, some colour, some tipped in, both with slip-cases, folio, Woodbridge, Wood Lea Press (2)
Lutyens (Sir Edwin).- Butler (A.S.G.), George Stewart & Christopher Hussey. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vol., one of 1500 reprints, Woodbridge, 1984 § Hussey (Christopher) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, first edition, 1950, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, the first slightly frayed at edges, one torn, the second spotted and browned, folio & 4to (4)⁂ Together forming The Lutyens Memorial.
NO RESERVE Wright (Frank Lloyd).- Drexler (Arthur) The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright, first English edition, 1962 § Pfeiffer (Bruce Brooks) Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings, New York, 1996Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans and Drawings, New York, 2011; Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Seven Unbuilt Designs, second edition, San Francisco, 1999 § De Long (David G.) & others. Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape 1922-1932, New York, 1996 § Bergdoll (B.) & Jennifer Gray. Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive, New York, 2017, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first slightly frayed at head of spine; and 3 others on Wright's drawings and designs, 4to & oblong folio (9)
Wright (Frank Lloyd).- Pfeiffer (Bruce Brooks) Frank Lloyd Wright 1885-1916; 1917-1942; 1843-1959: The Complete Works, 3 vol., text in English, German & French, illustrations, many colour, original boards with mounted illustrations, with the original cardboard boxes with handles, oblong folio, Cologne, 2009-11.
Bremer Press.- Homer. Poiesis: Odysseia [graece], edited by Eduard Schwartz, number 247 of 615 copies on Zanders hand-made paper, title designed by Anna Simons, text in Greek, notes in Latin, title and conjugate leaf becoming loose, bound in contemporary crushed grey morocco with single gilt rule border, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands edged in gilt rules, g.e., bookseller's ticket of L.Werner of Munich to foot of rear pastedown, spine a little rubbed and browned, crack to lower joint, marbled board slip-case (slightly rubbed), folio, Munich, Bremer Press, 1924.
NO RESERVE Circle Press.- Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Chimes, number 27 of 75 copies signed by the artist, 7 relief etchings by Birgit Skiöld, two with added colour, tissue guards, loose as issued in original wrappers, uncut, original cloth folder and slipcase, the latter slightly soiled, folio, [Guildford], Circle Press, 1969.
NO RESERVE Cresset Press.- Spenser (Edmund) The Shepheardes Calender, number 260 of 350 copies on hand-made paper, additional pochoir illustrated title and pochoir illustrations by John Nash, book-label of Thomas W.Swindlehurst, original vellum-backed cream silk, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket, very slightly soiled at edges, folio, Cresset Press, 1930.
NO RESERVE Nonesuch Press.- Burton (Robert), "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 vol., number 222 of 750 copies, portrait, allegorical titles and illustrations by E.McKnight Kauffer, original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, small folio, 1925.
NO RESERVE Vale Press.- Meinhold (William) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known..., translated by Lady Duff Gordon, [one of 300 copies on paper], wood-engraved honeysuckle border by C.Keats after Charles Ricketts, very light foxing to a few leaves, bookplate of Desmond Young and ink inscription to "Mary and Desmond from Ivy & Maurice Christmas 1920" to front free endpaper, free endpapers browned, original linen-backed boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine, uncut, a little rubbed, small stains to upper cover, spine worn at head and label chipped, [Watry B39], small folio, Vale Press, 1903.
Ballet.- Anthony (Gordon) The Russian Ballet, first edition, with an introduction by Arnold Haskell, 96 tipped-in photographic plates, endpapers lightly foxed, original cloth, spine toned, dust-jacket, spine lightly toned with large tear and chip, other tears and chips (some large) to margins, folds and extremities, folio, 1939.
Bianco (Pamela) Flora, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, frontispiece becoming loose, original decorative boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing and chipping to corners and extremities, 1919 § Perez (Jizchok-Leib) Gleichnisse, lithograph frontispiece and 7 plates by Jakob Steinhardt, occasional faint spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Berlin, 1920 § Shakespeare (William) Romeo and Juliet, frontispiece and plates by Oliver Messel, one plate creased at edge. previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small loss to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, 1936 § Foster (Myles Birket) Pictures of English Landscape, India Proofs, one of 1000 copies, 30 plates on India paper, titles in manuscript to verso, occasional faint spotting, original decorative vellum, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [1881]; and 11 others, all illustrated, 4to & folio (14)
NO RESERVE Flint (Sir William Russell).- Roenay (Ernst) Idyllen, number 113 of 250 copies from an edition of 1400, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Sir William Russell Flint, lacking free endpapers, original cloth-backed decorative boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Wien, Artur Wolf, 1921; and another copy, part of the larger limitation, folio, (2).
Fleece Press.- Great Storm (The) of October 1987 and its aftermath: Five Wood Engravings..., number 220 of 250 copies, 5 wood engravings by Claire Dalby, Monica Poole, Peter Reddick, Peter Smith and George Tute, all titled, numbered and signed in pencil by the artists and tipped into large hinged card mounts, introductory sheet loosely inserted, together in cloth drop-back box, paper label on upper cover, folio, Society of Wood Engravers, printed at the Fleece Press, 1989.
Flint (Sir William Russell) In Pursuit, one of 1050 copies signed by Francis Russell Flint with a presentation inscription by the same, title vignettes, illustrations and decorations, some colour, specially bound in decorative red crushed morocco, original slipcase, original cardboard packaging, small paper label to corner, a little rubbed, folio, Medici Society, 1970.⁂ Of the edition of 1050, only 1000 copies were available for sale. Numbered 1015, this copy appears to be one of the 50 copies not for sale. Inscribed, "With most grateful thanks and appreciation for all the hard work involved in the preparation of "In Pursuit". Willie would be delighted and full of praise - as I am. Francis Russell Flint 19th October 1971."
NO RESERVE Flint (Sir William Russell) In Pursuit, number 86 of 150 copies from an edition of 1050 signed by Francis Russell Flint, title vignettes, illustrations and decorations, some colour, original blue morocco, g.e., original slipcase, slight rubbing to extremities, folio, Medici Society, 1970.
NO RESERVE Flint (Sir William Russell) In Pursuit, one of 850 copies from an edition of 1050 signed by Francis Russell Flint, title vignettes, illustrations and decorations, some colour, original red morocco backed boards, gilt, original slipcase, slight rubbing to extremities, folio, Medici Society, 1970.
Gardner (Keith S.) & Nigel D. Clark. Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969. a Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of ..., 2 vol., De Luxe Editions numbered 270 and 250 of 500 from editions of 1500, colour illustrations, original decorative blue morocco, g.e., lightly sunned spines, original slipcases, folio, 1986-94.
Fleece Press.- Francis (Julian) Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, one of 150 copies, from an edition limited to 360, with an original wood-engraving tipped in as frontispiece, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, Upper Denby, 2012 § Chapman (Hilary) The Wood Engravings of Ethelbert White, one of 200 copies, text booklet in original wrappers, uncut, together with 2 mounted wood-engravings in original cloth drop-back box, illustration mounted on upper cover, Wakefield, 1992 § Brett (Simon) Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960, one of 280 copies, text in original cloth-backed patterned paper boards, uncut, additional plates in original wrappers, some colour and loose as issued, together in original cloth drop-back box, Denby Dale, 1998, plates and illustrations, some colour, some folding, some tipped in, folio & oblong folio, Fleece Press (3)
Schapiro (Steve) Taxi Driver, signed limited edition numbered 151 of 1200, The Art Edition with an original pigment print of Jodie Foster housed in original cloth portfolio, copiously illustrated, original cloth, clamshell box, housed in original polystyrene and cardboard wrapping, folio, Taschen, 2010.
NO RESERVE Taaffe (Philip).- Mrabet (Mohammed) Chocolate Creams and Dollars, translated by Paul Bowles, number 86 of 100 copies signed by the author, translator and artist but without the original monoprint by Taaffe, illustrations by Taaffe, original boards, dust-jacket, with original board box, New York, 1992 § Dickhoff (Wilfried) Philip Taaffe, one of 500 copies, colour plates, one folding, original cloth, Cologne, 1992, oblong folio & small 4to (2)
Vieillard (Roger) L'Ecclesiaste: Gravures au Burin de Roger Vieillard, letter D of 12 copies for contributors signed by the artist and with an additional engraving in first state initialled in pencil, from an edition limited to 214, engraved octagonal title-vignette and 13 engraved plates by Vieillard, tissue guards, decorative initials, spots to one or two plates but mostly to guards, loose as issued in original wrappers, uncut, engraved octagonal bookplate of Ralph Kirkpatrick by Vieillard mounted on inside front wrapper, wrappers lightly spotted, original vellum-backed boards, spine with paper label, board slip-case (browned at edge), folio, Paris, 1950.
NO RESERVE Warburg (Aby) Bilderatlas Mnemosyne - The Original, edited by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil, illustrations, original cloth, with publisher's original box, large folio, London & Berlin, 2020.⁂ Record of the famous but unfinished work by the great German art historian, Aby Warburg, which consisted of a scrap book of pictures grouped according to theme and the history of ideas. His private library in Hamburg was later moved to London forming the Warburg Institute, a centre for interdisciplinary research.
Whiteford (Kate) Traces Shadows Contours Logos, number 31 of 50 copies with a signed colour silkscreen print loosely inserted, from an edition of 500 on Velin Arches, 16 silkscreen illustrations, original embossed wrappers, Edinburgh & London, 1988 § Rachel Whiteread, original boards, Basel, 1994 § Finch (Mick) Engrams, number 211 of 300 copies, price list loosely inserted, original cloth-backed stiff wrappers, Piper Gallery, 2013 § British Council. Richard Hamilton. XLV Biennale di Venezia British Pavilion, original wrappers, spine very slightly rubbed, 1993, plates and illustrations, some colour; and 2 others, 4to & folio (6)
Hermes (Gertrude) Wood Engravings...being illustrations to Selborne..., number 16 of 240 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 1988 § Gosse (Irene) A Florilege chosen from Old Herbals, number 119 of 250 facsimile reprints, original rexine-backed marbled boards, Old Woking, 1981 § Russell (Judith) & others. The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, 2 exhibition catalogues loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly marked, Aldershot, 1993, plates and illustrations, some wood-engraved by Hermes, folio & 4to (3)⁂ The second item was issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of A Florilege, which was the first book entirely illustrated with wood engravings by Hermes.
Leighton (Clare) The Farmer's Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry, first edition, wood-engraved illustrations by Leighton, pictorial endpapers printed in green, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rather faded, a few marks, rubbed at edges, 1933; Country Matters, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket rubbed and spotted, scratch to lower panel and frayed at upper edge, 1937 § Jaffé (Pat) The Wood Engravings of Clare Leighton, original boards, dust-jacket, Cambridge, 1992, illustrations, many wood-engraved by Leighton; and 2 others illustrated by or about the same, oblong folio & 4to (5)⁂ The first item was the artist's first book.
Nash (John).- Lewis (John) John Nash: the painter as illustrator, number 49 of 150 special copies with a portfolio of wood-engravings printed from the original blocks and signed by the author, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, spine faded and slightly mottled by damp, additional prints all numbered in pencil and with embossed stamp of the estate, printed at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge and loose in folder (browned at edge), together in board slip-case, Godalming, Pendomer Press, 1978 § Greenwood (Jeremy) The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, one of 811 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, slip-case, Liverpool, Wood Lea Press, 1987 § Nash (John) English Garden Flowers, first edition, with various Nash exhibition catalogues and price lists loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, a little spotted and soiled, short tear to lower edge at fold, 1948, illustrations, some colour; and 2 others about John Nash, 4to & folio (5)
Nash (John).- Blythe (Ronald) John Nash's Cats, number 37 of 50 special copies signed by the author and with an additional suite of 5 prints (loose in pocket at end), original pictorial boards, slip-case, Woodbridge, printed at the Rampant Lions Press for the Wood Lea Press, 2003 § Greenwood (Jeremy) The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, one of 811 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, slip-case, Liverpool, Wood Lea Press, 1987, plates and illustrations, some colour and tipped in, 4to & folio (2)
Pellew (Claughton) Five Wood Engravings Printed from the Original Blocks with a biographical note by Anne Stevens, one of 150 sets, text booklet in original wrappers with illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, wood-engravings each loose in card folder, together in original cloth drop-back box, folio, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1987.
THE EAGLE IN PAGEANTRY, Wolverhampton, Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co, 1953 Coronation commemorative publication, fo, original wraps worn and repaired + A HUNDRED YEARS OF IPSWICH, circa 1997, special Evening Star Nostalgia series, 8 parts and 3 facsimile loose in original pictorial folio folder (2)
[TREADWAY RUSSELL NASH]: COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, printed for John White, Fleet Street, 1799, 2nd edition with additions, 2 vols with supplement, engraved vignette titles, vol 1 with added engraved vignette title for the 1st edition, large folding engraved map, 73 plates as list, appendix with two engraved dedication plates and 13 Domesday plates as instructions to binder, large folio, old calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, inner dentelles gilt, marbled end papers, all edges marbled (2)
EASTERN LOVE POEMS, trans Powys Matthers, ill Ru van Rossem, Folio Society 1953, 1st edition, original calf backed cloth, d/w (small part losses) + JEAN DE LA FONTAINE: ADONIS, trans David M Glixon, ill Ru van Rossem, London, The Rodale Press, 1957, 1st edition, original cloth backed pictorial boards, slip-case + THE SONG OF SONGS, ill Ru van Rossem, London, The Folio Society, 1967, 1st edition, original cloth, slip-case + ANATOLE FRANCE: THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCH, trans Alfred Allinson, ill Marcia Lane Foster, London, John Lane, New York, Dodd Mead, 1923, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w + RU VAN ROSSEM: THE EARLY WORKS, Amsterdam, Van Spijk Art Projects, 2004, oblong, original pictorial wraps + ALEXANDER POSTAN: THE COMPLETE GRAPHIC WORK OF PAUL NASH, London, Secker & Warburg, 1973, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w, ex-lib + CLARE COLVIN: JOHN NASH BOOK DESIGNS, Colchester, The Minories, 1986, 1st edition, 4to, original wraps, all titles from the collection of Derek Cottam. (7)
GODFREY TURTON: THE MOON DIES, ill Shirley Mungapen, London, Leopards Head Press, 1982, (200) numbered (19), limited edition certificate loosely inserted, 4to, original half cloth patterned boards, slip-case + SHALL WE JOIN THE LADIES? WOOD ENGRAVING BY WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Oxford, Studio One Gallery 1979, 1st edition, [exhibition organised by Betty Clark], 4to, original cloth, pictorial paper label + WALTER DE LA MARE: SEATON'S AUNT, London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927, 1st edition, ill Blair Hughes-Stanton (cover), original pictorial wraps (some wear and soiling) + THOMAS DE QUINCEY: THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ill Blair Hughes-Stanton, London, The Folio Society, 1992 reissue, original cloth gilt + ARCHILOCHOS, intro/trans/ill Michael Ayrton, London, Secker & Warburg, 1977, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth gilt + SIMON LISSIM: THE ART OF RAYMOND LISTER, Cambridge, John P Gray, 1958, (150) (146) numbered (81) and signed by artist, original cloth gilt + HSIAO CH'IEN: THE DRAGON BEARDS VERSUS THE BLUEPRINTS, ill Leon Underwood (frontis), London, The Pilot Press, 1944 reprint, inscription on half title, original cloth gilt, d/w + HENRY ALLEN WEDGWOOD: THE BIRD TALISMAN, ill Gwen Raverat, London, Faber & Faber, 1965 reprint, inscription on ffep, original cloth, d/w (price clipped), all titles from the collection of Derek Cottam (8)
Y A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERSATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1822With three quarter gallery and solid turned rosewood handles, the underside of one upper drawer with pencil signature for 'James Whiteside, Lancaster, 1822' 103.5cm high, 115cm wide, 57cm deep For a dressing table by Gillows craftsman, James Whiteside, please see Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, folio no. 3312, dated December 30, 1823.Please note that since the printing of the catalogue, we have been able to positively identify the signature on the upper drawer to be that of Gillows craftsman, Mr James Whiteside.Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Some old minor chips and splits.No key present, all locks are open. Chest in generally good order overall with no obvious significant condition issues. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
A collection of assorted vintage pictures & prints. To include: "My London" Folio of drawings by Geoffrey Fletcher from The Daily Telegraph (1 missing), 4 hanging card prints of ships from Harrison Line Shipping and Views & Reviews - Vol. 1 January 1896, featuring London, Manchester Ship Canal and York.
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