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7th October at 10:30am
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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| 25 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: GILL, ERIC 'Song of Songs'
Illustrated with nineteen wood-engravings by Eric Gill, device on title-page and initial letters printed in red, number 541 of 750 numbered copies, printed by Robert Gibbings and completed on the…
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£500 - £1,000 | £420 | View |
| 26 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: SWINBURNE, A.C. 'Pasiphae'
1950, number 9 from the edition of 500, numbers 1-100 of which have the extra engraving, illustrations by John Buckland-Wright, printed in Bembo type by Christopher Sandford, oxblood cover with bull…
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£500 - £1,000 | £800 | View |
| 27 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: LUCAS, F.L. 'The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite'
limited edition of 750 copies with illustrations by Mark Severin, printed in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, terracotta cloth boards with black vellum spine, gilt decoration of…
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£300 - £500 | £300 | View |
| 28 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: HARTNOLL, PHYLLIS 'The Grecian Enchanted'
printed with eight collotype illustrations after aquatint copper engravings by John Buckland Wright, limited edition number 87 of 360 copies, printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Caslon's Old Face…
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£300 - £500 | £340 | View |
| 29 |
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…
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£500 - £1,000 | £480 | View |
| 30 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: MILTON, JOHN 'Paradise Lost'
the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, 1937,
wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, top edge gilt,… |
£500 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
| 31 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: JONES, GWYN AND JONES, THOMAS 'The Mabinogion'
A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, 1948, one of 550 copies, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby, original publisher's half morocco over cream buckram by…
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£300 - £500 | - | View |
| 32 |
THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: A SMALL QUANTITY OF VOLUMES
Lucas, F.L., 'Greek Anthology', 1937, number 57 of 206 copies, illustrations by Lettice Sandford; Bannet, Ivor, 'The Amazons', 1948, number 270 of 500 copies, illustrations by Clifford Webb;…
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£500 - £1,000 | £650 | View |
| 33 |
BRADSHAW, GEORGE 'Bradshaw's Railway Companion'
publ. 1843, Bradshaw's Railway Information Office, 59 Fleet Street, London, W.J. Adams agent; together with 'Bradshaw's Continental Railway, Steam Transit and General Guide' in embroidered cloth…
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 34 |
A COLLECTION OF CHAPBOOKS
largely children's literature and religious tracts (18)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£300 - £500 | £550 | View |
| 35 |
A QUANTITY OF NOVELS
including works by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas and others (57)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£100 - £200 | £220 | View |
| 36 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
including 'The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte' in three volumes, Homer's 'Iliad' in two volumes and other similar editions (15)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£100 - £200 | £420 | View |
| 37 |
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…
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£500 - £1,000 | £550 | View |
| 38 |
BONE, MUIRHEAD 'The Western Front'
volumes I and II, published by authority of The War Office, 1917; and a quantity of other volumes concerning the Great War, travel, Islamic and Oriental art and similar subjects (27)
Provenance:… |
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 39 |
A QUANTITY OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION VOLUMES
including 'The Operas of Wagner' and Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' (34)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 40 |
A QUANTITY OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
to include works by J.M. Barrie, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear and Ernest Shepherd (40)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£200 - £400 | £240 | View |
| 41 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book', The Romance of King Arthur', English Fairy Tales', 'The Springtide of Life', 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 'Undine' and Rackham's biography by Derek Hudson; together with…
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£150 - £250 | £400 | View |
| 42 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO MEDIEVAL AND LATER ART
including reference editions concerning Illuminated Manuscripts, Renaissance Art and other similar topics
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 43 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON RENAISSANCE AND LATER ART
including works on Leonardo, Botticelli, Blake and Van Gogh
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 44 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS RELATING TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF REMBRANDT AND DURER
(16 volumes and some additional ephemera)
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£80 - £150 | - | View |
| 45 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF 20TH CENTURY ART BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
mostly relating to Eric Gill, Graham Sutherland and Augustus John, among others
Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent |
£150 - £250 | £120 | View |
| 46 |
TOLKEIN, J.R.R. 'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'
1st ed., 1st impression, pub. Allen & Unwin, 1937, ten uncoloured illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien, advertisement at rear, map endpapers printed in red and black, original green cloth, covers and…
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£15,000 - £25,000 | £46,000 | View |
| 47 |
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527-1598) A MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES
"Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio" from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' 1571 or 1573 edition, hand-coloured engraving, 25.5cm x 49.5cm
Provenance: A Private Collection… |
£400 - £800 | - | View |
| 48 |
CHRISTOPHER SAXTON (1540-1610) AND WILLIAM KIP (FL. 1598-1610) 'Denbigh'
from Camden's Britannia, 1610 or 1627 edition, hand-coloured engraving, 27cm x 33cm
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
