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Sir Kyffin Williams KBE, OBE, RA (1918-2006) ''Gwastadnant'' Initialled, oil on canvas, 49cm by 59.5cm Exhibited: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1993 Anglesey born Kyffin Williams is celebrated for his depictions of the Welsh landscape and ''Gwastadnant'' is one of several paintings of the hamlet in Caernarfonshire. Here the artist clearly demonstrates his signature colour scheme of subdued black, greys, browns, olive greens and bold usage of a palette knife. After attending the Slade School of Fine Art, Williams went on to become Senior Art Master at Highgate School from 1944-73, in 1968 he gained a Winston Churchill Fellowship to record the Welsh in Patagonia. He was president of the RCamA in 1969-76 and was elected RA in 1974. He exhibited at Colnaghi, the Leicester Galleries, Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff and Thackeray Gallery, amongst others. Throughout his time in London, Wales never left his consciousness or imagination. He would return home in holidays, sketch his beloved landscape and complete his canvasses in London. On retiring from Highgate School Williams returned to Anglesey where he spent the next 30 years painting, and promoting Welsh Art. In 1995 he received the Glyndwr Award
Pictures and Prints - English School (19th century)Donkeypencil sketch, gilt frame; Terry McK***a (20th century), by and after, Lakeside, signed, titled and numbered 306/400 by the artist, limited edition print; other prints, pictures, various mediums; frames; etc **All lots in this sale are subject to a maximum of £2.50 plus VAT Buyers Premium**
Ephemera - Local Interest - Stevenson (Robert Louis), Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour In the Year 1751, first edition, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1886, 12mo, viii + 311 + adverts [15], title-page with the Sketch of the Cruise of Brig Covenant [,] And the probable course of David Balfour's Wanderings, inscribed J.B. Marsden-Smedley 1886 [of Lea Green, Matlock, Derbyshire, 1869-30th March, 1959], original cloth boards; with a signed b/w photograph of John Marsden-Smedley taken on his 80th birthday, a later family photograph taken on his 90th birthday with a typed message of thanks for birthday messages received from the workers at the mills, as well as order of service for Smedley's funeral held on April 3rd, 1959Provenance - gifted to Marjorie Guy (née Hill), John Bertram Marsden-Smedley's private secretary until his death, on the dispersal of the contents and sale of Lea Green, Matlock, and thence by descent to the current vendor; football; RAF; Times Newspaper facsimile, boxed; etc (2 boxes) **All lots in this sale are subject to a maximum of £2.50 plus VAT Buyers Premium**
Duhamel (Georges) La Pierre d'Horeb, number 2 of 10 copies on marais with a suite of engravings, from an edition limited to 1150, dry-point plates by Berthold Mahn, illustrations, bound in dark green morocco, by Le Douarin, with black morocco label across spine titled in silver, uncut, spine faded, Paris, 1928 § Huysmans (J.-K.) A Rebours, number 166 of 200 copies, drypoint plates and illustrations by Coussens, some coloured, contemporary dark brown morocco, 1927 § Adrien. Ballades de Sylvain, number 44 of 70 copies, this copy signed and inscribed by the author/artist to Marcel Bauginet with pen, ink & watercolour sketch, an original drawing in pen & ink and some plates hand-coloured, etched plates by the author, loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers, uncut, 1946 § Crébillon (P.J. de) La Nuit et le Moment, one of 525 copies, colour etched plates by Louis Icart, contemporary roan-backed boards, rubbed, 1946, all uncut, the first two with slip-cases, slightly rubbed; and 5 others with engraved plates, 8vo & 4to (9)
NO RESERVE [Handler (Daniel)] "Lemony Snicket". A Series of Unfortunate Events, 12 vol. (of 13), 2001-5; Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, 2002, first English editions, both illustrations, first by Helquist, original pictorial boards, spine ends a little bumped, vol.6 with publisher's wrap-around band § Reeve (Philip) Mortal Engines, advance reader's edition, 2001; Larklight..., first edition, illustrations, 2006, both signed by the author, second signed by artist David Wyatt and with ink sketch of a flying pig, publisher's printed wrappers or original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and bumped; and 15 others, most duplicates of first mentioned, some later impressions, 8vo (30)
ARTISTS: A good selection of A.Ls.S. and signed postcard reproductions of artworks (most signed to the verso) by various contemporary artists and photographers etc. including Gilbert and George (2), Haroon Mirza, Frank Auerbach (2), Annie Leibovitz, Rineke Dijkstra, Mat Collishaw, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Antony Gormley, Peter Blake, Bridget Riley, Sarah Lucas (with a small original sketch), Susan Hiller, Gillian Ayres, Angela de la Cruz, Billy Childish, Michael Craig-Martin, Allen Jones, Maggi Hambling etc. Generally VG to EX, 24
DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. An unusual original pen and ink drawing, unsigned, by Doyle to the verso of his personal printed correspondence card, Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, n.d. Doyle’s drawing is entitled The Quiet Home in the Forest and depicts a fight between two animals (presumably hounds) taking place in a tree lined country field with seven individuals running towards them, most armed with various implements in an effort to stop the fight. From one individual Doyle has drawn a speech bubble with the holograph text ‘Hi! Do something! Do anything! Hit ‘em! Kick ‘em! Pull their tails!’. Matted in ivory and framed and glazed to both sides (to show Doyle’s printed name and address on the recto of the correspondence card) in a black frame to an overall size of 9.5 x 8. VG Provenance: The present sketch was originally sold as part of lot 131 by Christie’s in their sale of The Conan Doyle Collection in London on 19th May 2004. The lot of over twenty drawings and paintings realised £7170.
Bible; hieroglyphic. A New Hieroglyphical Bible, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children: being a Selection of the most Useful Lessons and most Interesting Narratives ... Embellished with Familiar Figures and Striking Emblems: Elegantly Engraved. To the whole is added a Sketch of the Life of Our Blessed Saviour, the Holy Apostles, etc. Recommended by the Revd. Rowland Hill, 1st edition thus, G. Thompson, 1794, engraved frontispiece and title-page, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, 2 full-page, light staining to lower outer corners of a few leaves, a few other marks, ownership inscription 'J. C. Gething, 1808' to front free endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, rubbed, 12mo (13.2 x 8.2 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC T123482; Sabin 53013 for the first US edition (published in Boston later the same year). Hieroglyphic bibles have key words replaced with a rebus for educational purposes. ESTC traces eight copies in UK libraries, and six in the US.
Spielmann (M.A. & Layard, G.S.). Kate Greenaway, first edition, Adam & Charles Black, 1905, colour and black & white plates, illustrations to text, top edge gilt, original blind-decorated cream cloth lettered in gilt, minor soiling, 4to, VG (Qty: 1)Limited edition, 317/500 copies, signed by John Greenaway. NB: Without the original sketch by Kate Greenaway normally inserted in copies of this deluxe edition. Revised estimate £100-150
Bliss (Joyce, 1914-1990). An archive of original artwork and associated material, approximately 150 drawings and sketches, comprising female nude studies, costume and theatre designs, book illustrations, designs for dust jackets, title-pages and endpapers, advertisements, decorative borders and initials, calendar designs, still life studies, genre scenes, animal studies, portraits, children at play, illuminated verse, etc., including two red chalk female nude studies, approximately forty watercolours, and the remainder pen & ink or pencil, a number unfinished, some signed or initialled 'EJB', some dated, together with a bound volume of Nursery Rhymes by the same artist, 12ff., each with musical notation within pen, ink, and watercolour border, plus some printed material (e.g. Christmas cards) and photographs related, various condition, approximately 41 x 31cm (16 x 12ins) and smaller, together with a small archive of original art by Phyllis Mary Antrobus (born 1905), comprising twelve watercolours (six portraits, and one of children A playing on a beach, one of moths and butterflies, and four of a fox terrier 'Foch'), some signed/dated, six pencil drawings of cats and dogs, and a pencil sketch of three young girls, sheet size 40 x 28.5cm (15.75 x 11.25ins) and smaller, plus two pen & ink drawings and one pencil drawing of female theatrical dancers, initialled 'DHYH', one dated 1926 and another dated 1929 (Qty: a folder)An interesting archive of material by artist Eleanor Joyce Bliss, who studied at the Birmingham School of Art between 1930 and 1939. She married silversmith Cyril James Shiner in 1943.
Cruikshank (George, 1792-1878). Hold your Bawling you good for nothing feller & get on with your work. The right end of life's to be jolly, be jolly &c.', pencil on paper, showing a chaotic domestic scene, with a woman wearing a bonnet and apron shaking her fist at a man who lolls on a table raising a tankard aloft in one hand and a clay pipe in the other, with disporting children and animals, browned, captioned in ink in the artist's hand on verso (with additional faint pencilled notes), 16 x 11.5 cm (6.5 x 4.5 ins), mounted, pencilled note on mount 'Ex. Coll. G.[erald] Reitlinger', together with Dumbarton Rock, Sept. 8th. 1856, pencil sketch on paper, titled in pencil to lower margin, and signed in pencil lower right, some minor spotting and marks, 25 x 35.5 cm (9.75 x 14 ins), mounted, plus Cruikshank (Robert Isaac, 1789-1856) , Family group with donkey, pencil and wash with some ink outlines, on paper, depicting a young couple with two small children, walking in a landscape with a donkey carrying loaded pannier baskets and a dog chasing along beside, initialled in pen lower right below image, browned, 20 x 34 cm (8 x 13.25 ins), mounted (Qty: 3)Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian, painter and collector, who was particularly interested in changing tastes in the art market, and consequent price fluctuation.
Robinson (William Heath, 1872-1944). Compliments of the Season, pen & ink with pencil on thick paper, depicting a light aircraft in flight with a gentleman kneeling on one wing waving a flying helmet at crowds below gathered round a frozen lake on which skates a clownish figure, the plane's smoke trail spelling out 'A Merry Xmas' and the skating figure's trail spelling out 'Same to you' on the ice, annotated in ink in the artist's hand to lower margin 'Rough Sketch W. Heath Robinson', and titled below image, one horizontal crease and two faint vertical creases, a few faint spots and marks, image size 43.5 x 34.5 cm (17.25 x 13.75 ins), sheet size 56 x 38 (22 x 15 ins), tipped-in on card (Qty: 1)
Tenniel (John, 1820-1914). On the "Quay Vive"!, 1898, pencil on paper, depicting foreign sailors queuing up with baskets in front of a British sailor on a quay, beneath a sign 'British Coaling Station', monogrammed and dated lower left, image size 20.5 x 16 cm (8 x 6.25 ins), with signature and caption in pencil on card beneath in the artist's hand: 'On the "Quay Vive"! John Bull "What, maties! Want some o' my coal to get to China! Right you are!" (to himself) "I can always stop the supplies!" Punch. Jan. 22. 1898.', both laid down in mount (manuscript title not visible through aperture), together with A New Departure, pencil on paper, showing William Edward Forster's departure as Chief Secretary for Ireland after resigning from Gladstone's government, against a background of cheering crowds, monogrammed lower left, 20 x 15.5cm (8 x 6 ins), mounted, with printed Punch cartoon dated 1882 for which the sketch was drawn mounted on verso, plus Leech (John, 1817-1864) , Pleasures of Housekeeping, [published in Punch, 1849], pencil sketch on card, depicting a lady laying the table with a gentleman standing with his back to the fire reading a newspaper, titled in pencil above and captioned in pencil below (in the artist's hand): 'The cook says that she thinks there's a slate loose on the roof of his house for the water comes into the servants' bedroom. Mr. Briggs replies that the sooner it is put to rights the better, before it goes further - and he will see about it', lightly toned, image size 9 x 12.5 cm (3.75 x 4.75 ins), mounted (Qty: 3)
Fermor (Patrick Leigh). The Traveller's Tree. A Journey through the Caribbean Islands, illustrated by A. Costa, 1st edition, John Murray, 1950, frontispiece, double-page sketch-map on green paper, photographic plates, spotting to edges (encroaching on margins in preliminaries), original green cloth, spine slightly rolled, dust jacket (spine nicked and toned, a few nicks to panels, upper outer corner of front panel rubbed, rear panel spotted), 8vo (Qty: 1)The author's first book.
James (Henry). The Europeans. A Sketch, 1st US edition, Houghton Osgood, Boston, 1879, some light toning and marginal soiling, original cloth gilt, small indentations to upper cover and splits at spine ends, a few small stains, 8vo, together with The Bostonians, 2nd one volume issue, Macmillan, 1886, advertisement leaf at end, original blue & black cloth gilt, some mottled stains, 8vo, plus The Wings of the Dove, 1st edition, Archibald Constable, 1902, publisher's catalogue at end, some light toning, original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, with 13 others by Henry James including Portraits of Places, Boston, 1884, The Other House, 2 volumes, 2nd edition,1896, The Spoils of Poynton, Heinemann, 1897, The Soft Side, Methuen, 1900, The Sacred Fount, Methuen, 1901 and The Better Sort, Methuen, 1903 (Qty: 16)
§ Georges Charles Robin (French, 1903-2003). 'Cirque de Montvalent' La Dordogne, le Matin et Le Chateau de Mirandol, Septembre 1943, unsigned, with inscription and Omell Galleries label verso, 39cm x 46cm together with another, view across the river Thouet with church tower in the background, oil on board, unsigned, the reverse with inscription, sketch of the church tower and Omell Gallery label, 39cm x 46cm (2). Please note that Artist Resale Right maybe payable on top of the hammer price for this lot up to a maximum of 4%, see www.dacs.org for more information. .
TRANTER, NIGELILLUSTRATIONS OF CASTLES Hallhead Castle, a preparatory sketch and a pen and ink illustration, framed with similar illustrations of another castle; Crombie Castle, a preparatory sketch and a pen and ink illustration, framed with similar illustrations of Aiket Castle; a framed pen and ink illustration showing a ruined structure; and three further illustrations of castles on two pieces of paper (4)
PONSONBY FAMILY OF HAILE HALL, CUMBRIA5 SCRAPBOOKS, including drawings of Kent House. East Cowes, Amiens; telegram from Queen Victoria to Lady Ponsonby, thanking her for message of sympathy, 1897; 2 letters from Arthur Ponsonby, 1 from Capt. Fritz Ponsonby, advertisement for viewing Tabley Old Hall, Knutsford, ink sketch of the Palace at Malta, printed examples of Middle School [Examination] Trials, St Michael's School, 1870's; Scrapbook, 1859 compiled by the Ponsonby family, cartoons of members of the family, engravings, etchings, watercolours including Grenadier Guards on the March to the Curragh, Jigginstown (5)
8 CHILDREN'S BOOKSINCLUDING GREENAWAY, KATE A Day in a Child's Life. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881?] 8vo, original boards over quarter cloth; [Idem] Under the Window. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]. First edition, 8vo, original boards over quarter cloth; Caldecott, Randolph The House that Jack Built. [London:] George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, original covers; [Idem] The Diverting History of John Gilpin: [London:] George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, original covers; [Idem] R. Caldecott's Second Collection of Pictures & Songs. London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., [n.d.] Oblong 8vo, original cloth; [Idem] A Sketch-Book of R. Caldecott. George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.] Oblong 8vo, original covers; Ewing, Juliana Horatia Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. London, [n.d.] 8vo, illustrated by R. Caldecott, original pictorial boards; Pearce, Hilda The Navy Book of Fairy Tales. London, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue cloth gilt (8)
SENDAK, MAURICETHREE PRESENTATION COPIES Higglety Pigglety Pop! New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author with sketch of a little boy ("Oct. '67 | For May Lowen - | in memory of a most | lovely hospital afternoon! | Maurice Sendak | [sketch of a little boy]") on front free endpaper, original cloth, dustwrapper ("$4.95" and "1067" on upper flap with five Sendak titles listed on lower flap), some minor fraying to extremities of dustwrapper; Minarik, E.H. A Kiss for Little Bear. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition (no ISBN or zip code on publisher's imprint page), 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the artist with a sketch of Little Bear ("Oct. '68 | For May - | [sketch of Little Bear with speech bubble "Happy Birthday | for the 22nd!!"] | and all my love! | Maurice Sendak") on front free endpaper, original illustrated boards, dustwrapper ("$2.50 | Ages 4-8" on upper flap with four little bear books listed on lower flap), slightly bumped at head of spine; Sendak, M. In the Night Kitchen. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition, 4to, presentation copy inscribed by the author with sketch of Mickey ("For May on her Birthday, | the 22nd of October, 70 | [sketch of Mickey] | With love, | Maurice Sendak") on front free endpaper, original cloth, dustwrapper ("$4.95" and "1070" on upper flap with seven Sendak titles listed on lower flap), head of spine slightly bumped, minor browning to dustwrapper (3)
ROBERTS, Daniel (1658-1727) Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts (1623?-1684) Quaker Humourist born at Siddington Glos. An account of the persecution of the Quakers. New Ed. James Phillips London 1786. bound with A Biographical Sketch of Henry Tuke by Lindley Murray, York 1815, marbled boards, calf spine, 170 x 105mm

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