JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949)
COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PRINTING BLOCKS, CIRCA 1910 AND LATER
£2,520
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
comprising a GROUP OF ZINC BLOCKS, to include Kirkcudbright, a Royal Burgh, in three parts, 22cm x 12cm, with spine title, along with an original copy of Kirkcudbright, a Royal Burgh; Good Greeting 1949, in five parts, 3 at 14cm x 10cm and two smaller (for the card interior) From the Green Gate (symbol) Kirkcudbright; Ernest A Taylor: NeuGaelTach bookplate, 14cm x 6cm; Horseman at the Gate, in two parts, 7.8cm x 8cm; Ex Libris: Mary Elizabeth Reid bookplate, 10.4cm x 5.2cm; and Dandelions, from Budding Life, along with an original copy of Budding Life; a GROUP OF COPPER BLOCKS, to include an illustration of Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queen’ And in the midst thereof a pillar placed…etc., 13.5cm x 8.5cm; and illustration of Shelley’s ‘The Wild West Wind’, Sister of the Spring, 13cm x 8cm; an illustration of Morris’s ‘King Arthur’s Tomb’ For Lancelot’s red-golden hair would play, 14.3cm x 9.5cm; a GROUP OF ELECTROTYPE BLOCKS, to include Dead Babe, 19.5cm x 9cm; Sam Mavor bookplate, 7.4cm x 7.4cm; Spirit of the Woods, 11cm x 9cm; Couple by the Rocks, 14cm x 13.5cm; and three further electrotype blocks, one showing an image by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, two unidentified; a GROUP OF CARVED WOOD BLOCKS, to include Jessie M King/ The (with Green Gate symbol), 11cm x 3.7cm; a seal with carved symbol of a rose, 6cm long; Cottages in a Landscape, 8.2cm x 9cm; a crow, 7cm x 6cm; and an image of an agricultural roller, 6cm x 11cm; and a group of LINOCUTS, by Merle Taylor, E.A. Taylor and Jessie M. King, largest 15.5cm x 10.5cm (35)
Provenance
Provenance: Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald Taylor
By descent to their daughter Merle Taylor
Estate of Merle Taylor