Lot 308
Children's and illustrated books
Large collection of works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
Whistler, Rex (illustrator). Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Cobden Sanderson Ltd, 1935. First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the artist on the half-title, 8vo, original cream buckram richly gilt, all edges gilt, wood-engravings throughout;
Carroll, Lewis. Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece and text illustrations by Harry Furniss, all edges gilt, spine sunned, a few marks to covers;
Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 28 colour plates;
Idem. Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1916. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and faded;
Idem. The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1912. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 28 colour plates, mark to front board;
Idem. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1918. 4to, original cream pictorial cloth, 14 colours plates, inner hinges repaired;
Idem. The Masque of Comus. The Poem by John Milton. Cambridge: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. One of 1,500 copies, 8vo, original quarter japon, colour plates, slipcase;
Marie, Queen of Romania. The Story of Naughty Kildeen. Illustrated by Job [i.e. Count Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville]. Tours: A. Mame and Sons, c.1922. Folio, original orange pictorial cloth, colour illustrations throughout, covers sprung, spotting to endpapers;
Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine rolled, browning to half-title and final blank;
Eliot, T. S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Nicolas Bentley drew the Pictures. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, original white pictorial cloth, contemporary ownership inscription, dust jacket repaired, a few nicks and chips;
Le Mair, H. Willebeek (illustrator). A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, oblong 4to, original quarter cloth, 12 colour plates;
and approx. 50 others, including others illustrated by Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, and similar