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An Edwardian novelty table cigar lighter in the manner of Louis Wain depicting a seated cat, Birmingham 1906, 6cms high.Condition ReportThe head has a very small split to the bridge of the cats nose, one hind leg has a crease and a s hallow dent, and there is an old split to the leg at the same place, small dent above the front leg, and the base is slightly pushed in.
Nister (Ernest, publisher). Our Darlings' Surprise Pictures, [1895], 8 full-page colour chromolithographs with tabs (one missing), two leaves detaching, some toning to edges, presentation inscription to front free endpaper, upper and rear hinge tender, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some soiling, 4to, together withHood (Thomas). The Headlong Career and Woful Ending of Precocious Piggy, illustrated by his son, London: Griffith & Farran, 1859, hand-coloured illustrations throughout, publisher's advertisement to rear, coloured endpapers, ownership blind stamp to first three leaves, original cloth-backed pink pictorial boards, edges rubbed, plusGreenaway (Kate). Kate Greenaway Pictures from originals presented to John Ruskin and other personal friends (the other two unpublished), with an appreciation by H. M. Cundall, London: Frederick Warn and Co., 1921, 20 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, half-title, frontispiece offset to title, green marbled endpapers, original two tone cloth with gilt title, 4to, and 27 other children's and illustrated books including: Une Soirée dans le Monde des Chats, 1877; The Infants' Magazine, 1892; Ups and Downs All Smiles No Frowns, [1880]; Cats of All Sorts by Louis Wain, (defective), Young Maids & Old China, [1888]; etc., QTY: (1 carton)
Wain (Louis). Pa Cats Ma Cats and their Kittens, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1902], 11 chromolithograph plates, including one double-page, illustrations, a few light stains, one or two small closed marginal tears, contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)
Wain (Louis). Somebody's Pussies, London: Raphael Tuck, circa 1920, colour illustrations on thick card, 'Book Belongs to' box completed in ink, a few light spots, original illustrated boards, some edge wear, 4to, together with Darwin (Bernard & Elinor). The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo, London: Nonesuch Press, circa 1925, 22 full-page colour illustrations, original boards, upper cover with circular embossed illustration in red, small tear and loss at head of spine, oblong 4to, plus Langlands (Winifred, illustrator). The Moor Folk, by Winifred Simmons, London: Faber and Gwyer, 1926, colour illustrations, p. 73 lower corner torn away, some toning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, small 4to, with others illustrated including The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by T. Pym (pseud. Clara Creed), circa 1883, Mrs Leicester's School, circa 1900 (small loss at foot of spine), and Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter, circa 1909QTY: (approximately 80)
[SWIFT, Jonathan.] 'Lemuel GULLIVER'. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 8vo (180 x 117mm.) Profusely illustrated by Charles E. Brock. (Occasional, minor spotting.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to spine and upper cover, g.e. (slight spine lean). - And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Jessie Pope's 'The Cat Scouts' illustrated by Louis Wain, [1912], 4to, and 'The Sleeping Beauty' told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920, 4to, and Walter Crane's 'Flora's Feast, a Masque of Flowers', 1889, 4to) (12).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Louis Wain (1860-1939) - Caricature of a cat in white collar, within a blue/white border, watercolour, signed lower right, 18.5 cm x 20 cm Prov - V&A exhibition winter 1972, in vendors' family over 70 years good original although some light surface scuffing, two faint horizontal fold type lines, framed under glass
Louis Wain (1860-1939) - 'One Yard and Three Quarters ...', two cats trading cloth, watercolour, signed lower left, inscribed and signed to verso in pencil, sheet size 29 cm x 22.5 cm Prov - V&A exhibition winter 1972, in current vendors' family over 70 years good original although some light surface scuffing, two faint horizontal fold type lines, framed under glass
Louis Wain (1860-1939) Good gracious what a sightsigned 'Louis Wain' (left centre) and inscribed with title in mirror writing (lower right)pencil on paper35 x 21.5cmProvenance:With Chris Beetles, London, by 1997Exhibited:London, Chris Beetles, Louis Wain & the Summer Cat Show, August 1997, no.2661.5 x 46.5cm framed
Louis Wain (illustrated); Cecily M. Rutley: 'The Tale of Little Priscilla Purr', Dundee & London, Valentine, c.1920, 1st edition, 14 colour plates by Louis Wain as called for, original paper covered boards, mounted colour illustration to front cover by Wain; plus Kate Greenaway Almanack's for 185 & 1890, each with colour illustrated frontispieces, title pages and 12 colour ills. for the months of the year, each approx 10 x 8cm, 1885 almanack cream boards gilt, 1890 almanack cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (3)
WAIN LOUIS: (1860-1939) English artist, remembered for his drawings featuring anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. A good pair of A.Ls.S., Louis Wain, four pages (total), 8vo, Bendigo, Westgate on Sea, 26th August and 1st September 1907, each to [Peter] Keary. In the first letter Wain asks his correspondent not to forget about an article for his annual and continues 'By the bye I am sending tonight to Mr. Everett an article on Canada which may interest you as you have I think been that way. The facts were given by a Canadian farmer whose an old friend of mine & worse than I have painted them. The official facts are very bad too'. With blank integral leaf. In the second letter Wain thanks his correspondent for their manuscript, remarking 'it is quite unconventional & out of the ruck if you don't mind me saying so, & just what I strive for for my annual', and further writing 'I am writing a bit of imaginative fancy myself for the annual & I hope to make the whole thing quite out of the way. I touch politics in a very satirical manner too in some drawings. But it is only the upper classes who are satirical in our days, the mass of the people take umbrage at anything which hits them'. Rare. VG, 2 Peter Keary (1865-1915) British editor of TitBits from 1884-90, when, in conjunction with C. Arthur Pearson, he started Pearson's Weekly. The Louis Wain Annual was published between 1901 and 1915.
Postcards, Comic, a mixed selection of approx. 40 illustrated comic cards to inc. 'Our Sailors' and other Naval comic, Cecil Aldin (Tuck), Cycling, Attwell (9) (knitting, make-up, sugar and spice), Louis Wain (wtf write ways x 2), Bonzo (3), Graeff (2), football, Spurgin, Graham Hyde (2) (mixed condition)
Louis William Wain (British, 1860-1939)The Sweetest Pair signed 'Louis Wain' (lower left)gouache on paper24.5 x 27.5cm (9 5/8 x 10 13/16in).(unframed)Footnotes:ProvenanceSale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 7 November 2001, lot 117, where acquired by the present ownerPrivate Collection, U.K.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Louis Wain (British 1860-1939) Framed ink and watercolour, signed Japanese theme with a cat holding a parasol in a rickshaw 29cm x 38cmCONDITION REPORT:The watercolour is in good condition with good colour, the mount requires replacing, possibly some dampness under the glass. On close inspection there are 3 or 4 small early signs of light foxing to the paper to the top left of the watercolourThis watercolour came from a local deceased estate.
A collection of 33 postcards by Louis Wain, the majority featuring anthropomorphic cats, including postcards published by Raphael Tuck, Davidson Bros and J. Beagles.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 32 postcards by Louis Wain, the majority featuring anthropomorphic cats, including postcards published by Valentines, Davidson Bros, C.W. Faulkner and The Philco Publishing Co.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 32 postcards by Louis Wain, the majority featuring anthropomorphic cats, including postcards published by J. Beagles, Davidson Bros, C.W. Faulkner and F. Hartmann.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 32 postcards by Louis Wain, the majority featuring anthropomorphic cats, including postcards published by Raphael Tuck, Davidson Bros and C.W. Faulkner.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Two albums containing approximately 320 artist postcards, including H. Cowham, M. Sowerby, L.M. Hine, Josephine Duddle, Joyce Mercer, Dorothy Wheeler, Tom Browne, Chas. Crombie, and Louis Wain, many featuring fairies and children.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
LOUIS WAIN and other artists. 'A Book of Drawings,' signed artist proofs. A unique book copiously signed by Louise Wain, A. Bryan, L. Davis, A. T. Elwes, Harry Furniss, J. Jellico, Louise Jopling, J. B. Partridge, Jo Pennell, R. H. Moore, H. Railton, Hugh Thomson, C. Wilkinson, and W. Wilson, with a prefatory poem by Austin Dobson, numbered 54 of 100, full vellum with gilt decorations, vg, privately printed for Mr & Mrs F. T. Davies, 1891. This book is mooted as the first outing for one of Louis Wain's composite cat caricatures, 'A Night in Town,' although his 'Kittens Christmas Party' had appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1886. The book is a useful snapshot of the diverse artistic styles found at the time. A beautifully produced work.
WAIN, Claire. Seven original pencil drawings by Claire Wain drawn in 1926, one of which is in colour, all but one of cats. 5 are 170mm x 135mm; one is 168mm by 211mm, and the other 250mm by 152mm. With 3 Louis Wain postcards. Claire Wain (1868 - 1945) was a sister of Louis Wain (1860 - 1939). Louis Wain was the eldest of 6 children and only male child. None of his five sisters married. Claire was the fifth child and last surviving member of the family.Provenance: The drawings are in an envelope (postmarked 1999) on which is written: 'Drawings done by Claire Wain for me (aged 7 years) whilst she was demonstrating Royal Sovereign Pencils at the British Industries Fair on their Exhibition Stand (one way of keeping me quiet)
Sheffield Interest Postcards - Late Victorian Real Phototgraph RP postcards of Sheffield street views including Salt-Box Psalter Lane, Old Sheffield, New Church St, Old School House at Bagshot St, Sharrow Vale, Whiteley Woods, Old Toll Bar, Pitsmoor, etc; various hand tinted Sheffield views and surrounding villages like Eyam; A Louis Wain illustrated postcard for Jackson's of Sheffield Boots and Hats ''We've Won'', 'JACKSONS' WIN BY 2 POINTS VALUE & PRICE' featuring Leeds City F.C. 1912-13 (21 in total)

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