GLASGOW SCHOOL
LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS IN ORIGINAL ART NOUVEAU CLOTH BINDINGS
£1,638
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
including: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (designer), Or in the Grass by Madeleine Caron Rock, London: John G. Wilson, 1914 (first edition, 8vo, original black cloth with decoration in green to front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed); approx. 70 novels, children's books etc. with decorative varicoloured cloth bindings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and published by Blackie and Son c.1900-10, of which approx 50 with his overall ‘batwing’ design, 8 with a geometric rectilinear design incorporating blue squares; John Kirkland (editor), The Modern Baker, Confectioner and Caterer, London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1909 (6 volumes, 4to, original decorative green cloth); Alice Corkran, The Romance of Woman's Influence, London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1906 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscriptions to half-title); and approx, 70 others, including various works in Blackie's Plain Text Poets and other series