Illustrated and private press books
Collection of works
£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
Bawden, Edward (illustrator). Well on the Road. Words, Christopher Bradby. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, 1935. First edition, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards;
Previous Parrot Press. Tryphema Press. The Ghost of a Great Lodge. A Short Story by Olive Cook, with Drawings by Walter Hoyle, 1999. One of 148 copies signed by author and illustrator, 4to, original patterned boards;
Idem. Walter Hoyle. To Sicily with Edward Bawden. With an Introduction by Olive Cook, 1998. One of 350 copies signed by Walter Hoyle and Olive Cook, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards;
Celandine Press. R. S. Thomas. Destinations, with Illustrations by Paul Nash, 1985. One of 300 copies, tall narrow 8vo, tipped-in colour plates, laid-in tissue-guards;
Incline Press. Alan Powers, Barry Kitts, Ronald Maddox. In Place of Toothpaste. Three Essays celebrating the Watercolour Painting of Eric Ravilious, 2004. One of 250 copies, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, tipped-in colour plates;
Stourton Press. To John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday, 1983. One of 900 copies, Tall 8vo, original pictorial boards;
and approx. 35 others, including Edward Bawden & George Mackie, Historical Ballads of Denmark, Edinburgh: University Press, 1958 (one of 750 copies, this copy inscribed by Mackie to Frank Collieson, original boards, dust jacket), John Betjeman, Continual Dew, 1937 (first edition, dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, price-clipped), idem, First and Last Loves, 1952 (first edition, dust jacket designed by John Piper, price-clipped), Claud Lovat Fraser (illustrator), Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton, The Poetry Bookshop, 1922 (first edition), 5 Merivale Editions signed limited prints, King Penguins, and similar (approx. 40)