Lot 161
King (Jessie M.) "Seven Happy Days", full-page illustrations including 7 colour and heightened with silver & sometimes gilt, 1913 & others illustrated by J.M.King, v.s. (13)
Hammer Price: £320
Description
King (Jessie M.) "Seven Happy Days": A Series of Drawings by Jessie M.King with Quotations from John Davidson & others, Christmas Supplement to The Studio, 8pp. extract from The Studio vol.60, full-page illustrations including 7 colour and heightened with silver & sometimes gilt, very slight soiling to first and last leaves, disbound, 1913 § Morris (William) The Defence of Guenevere and other poems, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little rubbed and faded, small stain to upper cover, 1904 § Evans (S., translator) The High History of the Holy Graal, printed in red & black, later brown morocco, gilt, by Bumpus, spine gilt, g.e., 1903 § Spenser (Edmund) Poems, edited by W.B.Yeats, original decorated cloth, [1907], all with plates and/or illustrations by Jessie M.King, some colour; and 9 others illustrated by Jessie M.King, mostly Foulis Friendship Booklets, v.s. (13)
⁂ The first contains superb reproductions of King's delicate artwork.
Description
King (Jessie M.) "Seven Happy Days": A Series of Drawings by Jessie M.King with Quotations from John Davidson & others, Christmas Supplement to The Studio, 8pp. extract from The Studio vol.60, full-page illustrations including 7 colour and heightened with silver & sometimes gilt, very slight soiling to first and last leaves, disbound, 1913 § Morris (William) The Defence of Guenevere and other poems, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little rubbed and faded, small stain to upper cover, 1904 § Evans (S., translator) The High History of the Holy Graal, printed in red & black, later brown morocco, gilt, by Bumpus, spine gilt, g.e., 1903 § Spenser (Edmund) Poems, edited by W.B.Yeats, original decorated cloth, [1907], all with plates and/or illustrations by Jessie M.King, some colour; and 9 others illustrated by Jessie M.King, mostly Foulis Friendship Booklets, v.s. (13)
⁂ The first contains superb reproductions of King's delicate artwork.
