Name: Auction: JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JESSIE M. KING AND FAMILY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1008 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One | Lots 1 to 252 | Wednesday 16th April from 10am

Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am

Our Spring 2025 edition of Design Since 1860 took place on 16 &amp; 17 April. &nbsp;Scroll down to view the results, if you are interested in any available lots our team would be delighted to discuss any aftersales enquiries. &nbsp;&nbsp;The auction featured selected works from the late 19th century and early 20th century and encompassed the Aesthetic and Arts &amp; Crafts Movements, Art Nouveau and Art Deco as well as works which date up to the present day. &nbsp;Highlights of the sale included a group of watercolours, furniture and works of art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including the wonderful French period watercolour <a href="/auctions/design-since-1860-828/lot/299">‘Bouleternère’</a> which sold for £150,200 inc fees and <a href="/auctions/design-since-1860-828/lot/298">a group of silver cutlery</a> designed for Fra and Jessie Newbery which sold for a remarkable £175,200 inc fees. The auction also featured a collection of works of art and personal items belonging to Jessie Marion King and her husband, designer and artist E.A. Taylor. Another highlight was the rare and beautiful ‘St Cecilia’ tapestry circa 1888, woven at Merton Abbey by Morris &amp; Co., to designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle.Also in the sale is a collection of continental Art Nouveau including several rare works by Amphora, designed by Eduard Stellmacher. The sale also included an exciting selection of works by designers such as Christopher Dresser, Philip Webb, W.A.S. Benson, C.F.A. Voysey, James Herbert McNair and Sir Edwin Lutyens; Carlo Bugatti, Josef Hoffmann, Herter Brothers and many others.&nbsp;Buyer's Guide:

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including:&nbsp;The English Version of the Polyglott Bible. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, c.1880. 12mo, ownership inscription ‘Jessie M. King, The Manse, New Kilpatrick’ to initial blank, half-title annotated ‘John Liddel’s Bible' in the same hand, further inscription ‘from my mother’ to the front free endpaper, lacking rear cover and apparently several leaves of text at rear;&nbsp; Greenaway, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book, c.1920. 16mo, original cloth, inscribed ‘To Merle from Angus’ within hand-drawn decorative border on front free endpaper, with manuscript entries throughout, including for ‘Mrs E. A. Taylor’, i.e. Jessie M. King, next to her birthday of 20 March;&nbsp;Le Nouveau Testament. Strasbourg 1878, ownership inscription ‘Peggy King, The Manse, New Kilpatrick, April 1898’ to initial blank;&nbsp;The Letters of Charles Lamb. London: J.M. Dent & Co., with gif inscription 'To Mrs Taylor “A trifling memory of a true kindness” G.J.J. July 1917; Sappho. One Hundred Lyrics. London: Alexander Moring Limited, 1906. Small 8vo. contemporary green roan, gift inscription ‘To E.A.T. Xmas ’06';&nbsp;and 22 others similar, from the library of Merle Taylor, several with family inscriptions, mainly leather-bound.&nbsp;For more information on the contents of this lot please see the lot description on our website lyonandturnbull.com

COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JESSIE M. KING AND FAMILY

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST

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JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST

COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JESSIE M. KING AND FAMILY

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