Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions
Wednesday 30th January 2019 | 10:30 am | Lots:
LOT 1
Alexandre (Arsene) & Jean Cocteau. The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst, 77 plates, 1913 & another,...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 2
Alexeiff.- Giraudoux (Jean) Siegfried et le Limousin, one of 7 copies on Japon, pochoir plates...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 3
Armstrong (Martin) Desert, a Legend, one of 100 copies signed by the author, wood-engravings by...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £320
![Ashendene Press.- [Longus.] Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, one of 290, wood-engravings by Gwen Raverat, Ashendene Press, 1933.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/873d25f0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/58d1843c-db91-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Ashendene Press.- [Longus.] Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, one of 290, wood-engravings by Gwen Raverat, Ashendene Press, 1933.")
LOT 4
Ashendene Press.- [Longus.] Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, one of 290,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 5
Balzac (Honoré de) Quatre Histoire de Betes, number 20 of 25 copies on Marais with an original...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £260
LOT 6
Barbier (George).- Boylesve (René) Le Carrosse aux deux lézards verts, number 16 of 25 copies on...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 7
Barbier (George).- Verlaine (Paul) Fetes Galantes, one of 200 on Japon with additional suite of...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 8
Barbier (George).- Choderlos de Laclos (Pierre-Ambroise-François) Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 2...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 9
Bayros (Franz von) "Ex-Libris" Neue Folge, number 145 of 350 copies, 12 mounted plates, Vienna,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £190
LOT 10
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, André Raffalovich's copy, original pictorial red...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 11
Beardsley (Aubrey).- Jonson (Ben) Volpone: or The Foxe, inscribed by Robert Ross, illustrations,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £850
![Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Morte Darthur], illustrated by Beardsley, original decorated green cloth, gilt, 1909.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f44425f0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e0f9fb42-db91-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Morte Darthur], illustrated by Beardsley, original decorated green cloth, gilt, 1909.")
LOT 12
Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Morte Darthur], illustrated by Beardsley, original...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 13
Bécat (Paul-Émile).- La Fontaine (Jean de) Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon, one of 100 on...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 14
Beckett (Samuel) The North, number V of 15 copies signed by the author and with an additional...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 15
Beerbohm (Max) Things New and Old, number 99 of 350 copies signed by the author/artist and with...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 16
Bevan (Robert Polhill, 1865-1925) Polish Cottages, black waxed-crayon with watercolour wash.
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 17
Black Sun Press.- Sterne (Laurence) A Sentimental Journey, number 197 of 335 copies, bound in...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 18
Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Imortal Decameron, 5 vol., one of 26 copies with original drawings,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 19
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Notes sur L'Armour by Claude Anet
Estimate: £350 - £450
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 20
Bosschere (Jean de).- Baudelaire (Charles) Little Poems in Prose, translated by Aleister...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £180
LOT 21
Brangwyn (Frank).- Phillpotts (Eden) The Girl and the Faun, one of 350 deluxe copies signed by...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £260
LOT 22
Breton (Nicholas) The Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day, limited edition, designed & illustrated...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 23
Brunelleschi (Umberto).- Musset (Alfred de) La Nuit Venitienne; Fantasio; Les Caprices de...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 24
Buckland Wright (John).- Keats (John) The Collected Sonnets, one of 376 copies, wood-engravings...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £480
![Buckland Wright (John).- Rimbaud (Arthur) Oeuvres Completes, one of 371, engraved portrait by John Buckland Wright, bound by Rene Kieffer, [Maastricht], Halcyo](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/be3e25f0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/67c78712-dd91-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Buckland Wright (John).- Rimbaud (Arthur) Oeuvres Completes, one of 371, engraved portrait by John Buckland Wright, bound by Rene Kieffer, [Maastricht], Halcyo")
LOT 25
Buckland Wright (John).- Rimbaud (Arthur) Oeuvres Completes, one of 371, engraved portrait by...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £280
LOT 26
Buckland Wright (John) Baigneuse Accroupie, wood-engraving, 1932 & another (2)
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £480
LOT 27
Caradoc Press.- Walton (Isaac) & Charles Cotton., The Compleat Angler, one of 350 copies, etched...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £320
LOT 28
Carlegle.- Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Nudité, one of 49 copies on Japon Nacré, bound in green...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 29
Chimot (Edouard).- Magre (Maurice) La Montée aux Enfers, one of 500 copies, 4-line manuscript...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 30
Chimot (Edouard).- Magre (Maurice) Les Soirs d'Opium, one of 5 copies on chine with etchings in...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,300
LOT 31
Chimot (Edouard).- Louys (Pierre) Les Chansons de Bilitis, one of 40 hors commerce copies signed...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 32
Choukhaeff (Vassili).- Pushkin (Alexander) La Dame de Pique, one of 345 copies, pochoir plates...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 33
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Chéri, 2 vol. incl. additional suite of plates, signed and inscribed...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 34
Conrad (Joseph) The Works, 20 vol., number 446 of 780 sets signed by the author, 1921 & others,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 35
Craig (Edward Gordon, 1872-1966) Meadow Girl, woodcut on japan paper, circa 1898; together with...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 36
Craig (Edward Gordon) Book of Penny Toys, one of 550 copies, hand-coloured woodcuts, 1899.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £3,800
LOT 37
Craig (Edward Gordon) Henry Irving. Ellen Terry. etc. A Book of Portraits, first edition, 19...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 38
Craig (Edward Gordon) Henry Irving. Ellen Terry. etc. A Book of Portraits, first edition,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 39
Craig (Edward Gordon) The Page, a Specimen Copy, inscribed by the author to Clement Shorter,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 40
Craig (Edward Gordon) A small notebook/album, 44 wood-engravings including 11 proof impressions...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £650
![Craig (Edward Gordon, 1872-1966) The Taming of the Shrew, 1908 [but later impression from 1924]; together with four others by Craig, 1899-1924 (5).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/bf4725f0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/9fdb298d-db91-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Craig (Edward Gordon, 1872-1966) The Taming of the Shrew, 1908 [but later impression from 1924]; together with four others by Craig, 1899-1924 (5).")
LOT 41
Craig (Edward Gordon, 1872-1966) The Taming of the Shrew, 1908 [but later impression from 1924];...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 42
Craig (Edward Gordon) On the Art of the Theatre, one of 150 deluxe copies signed by the author,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 43
Craig (Edward Gordon) Scene, one of 100 copies signed by the author, author's own copy and...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £280
LOT 44
Craig (Edward Gordon) Woodcuts and some Words, one of 160 copies signed by the author/artist,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 45
Craig (Edward Gordon) Woodcuts and some Words, one of 160 copies signed by the author/artist,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 46
Craig (Edward Gordon) Nothing or the Bookplate, one of 280 copies with an original woodcut on...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £280
LOT 47
Craig (Edward Gordon) A Production, one of 105 copies on hand-made paper signed by the artist,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 48
Craig (Edward Gordon) Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self, one of 256 large paper copies signed by...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: Unsold
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