Nevinson, C. R. W.
Modern War Paintings
£600
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. First edition, 4to, original green quarter cloth, green paper boards, printed labels to spine and front cover, dust jacket, colour lithographic frontispiece ('The Column on the March') signed by Nevinson in pencil and with captioned tissue-guard, 24 monochrome plates, peripheral toning to boards, corners bumped, dust jacket with toned spine, chipping to head and foot of spine and joints, short closed tear to head of front panel, a few small marks;
Bone, Muirhead. Glasgow. Fifty Drawings. Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1911. 'Special edition', number 2 of 110 copies (of which 10 were for presentation) with a signed original etching, comprising text volume (folio, original wrappers, partly unopened), signed etching (in window-mount), and 53 unbound plates (each on separate card mount and including duplicates of plates 3, 11 and 36), all in portfolio as issued;
Binyon, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli. An Essay in Pictorial Criticism. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 275 copies, folio, original quarter vellum, etched frontispiece by Muirhead Bone (signed by the artist), 23 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards browned;
Burns, Robert (1869-1941). Scots Ballads. London: Seeley Service & Co Limited, [1939]. First edition, one of 320 copies only, folio, original quarter cloth, printed on japon, wood-engraved illustrations throughout;
[Chromolithography]. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W & G Hudsley, Architects. London: Day & Son, 1865. 4to, original decorative cloth, 20 chromolithographic leaves, gutta percha perished and contents loose;
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books, New Arabian Nights. A New Edition; Ballads. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888-89-90. 3 works, large-paper editions, each one of 100 copies only, 4to, original cream cloth, slightly marked, tips bumped (8)