£429
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
pencil on tracing paper, 17.1 x 11.6cm, browned, rust-holes upper left, together with a proof wood-engraving of the same design, 13.8 x 10.6cm, 2 pin-holes and associated rust-staining to margin [Skelton P22], and 3 further proof wood-engravings: Crucifix, Chalice and Host, 1915 [Skelton P22] and Crucifix, 1919, 2 copies [cf. Skelton P151, one copy evidently a different state, without the border and enclosed text as depicted in Skelton, but with corner letters and infill in red, apparently added by hand rather than printed]
Provenance: Property of an English collector.