JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949)
LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS DESIGNED BY KING
£1,512
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
mainly 8vo (various dimensions): Budding Life, A Book of Drawings, London: Gowans and Gray Ltd, [no date] (original wrappers with integral pictorial japon dust jacket and protective glassine cover, the latter with some loss); The Legends of Flowers … from the Italian of Paolo Mantegazza, Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1908 (original cream cloth decorated in gilt); Corners of Grey Old Gardens, with Illustrations in Colour by Margaret Waterfield, Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1922 (original pictorial boards); Songs of the Ettrick Shepherd, Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, [no date] (original wrappers); The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes, 1917 (original pictorial boards); 16 George Routledge editions of novels and classics including Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gulliver's Travels, Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, etc., all in original varicoloured cloth bindings designed by King; and approx. 40 others including further T. N. Foulis publications in King-designed wrappers, The Gallovidian Annual for 1932 and 1933, and similar