£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Cornwall. An Interior Vision. Copper-Engravings and Texts by Brian Hanscomb, 1992. Number XXX of 35 special copies with an extra suite of engravings, folio, original wrappers, stab-stitched and printed on doubled leaves in the Japanese style, 8 copper-engravings each signed by the artist in pencil, together with a suite of 8 proof engravings each signed by the artist and marked ‘A/P’ (artist's proof) in pencil, loose as issued in blue thick card portfolio, the book and portfolio housed together in original slipcase;
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Milton's Hymn, with Illustrations by William Blake, 1981. Number IV of 25 copies specially bound and containing an additional suite of illustrations (from the total edition of 325), large 4to, original dark green goatskin, 6 tipped-in colour plates, with 6 duplicates loose in marbled card portfolio as issued, the book and portfolio hosed together in original black cloth solander box (box slightly marked and with a hint of pale mottling in places);
Further Interiors. Wood-Engravings by Howard Phipps, 1992. Number LXV of 65 copies signed by the artist, specially bound and containing an extra suite of prints, 4to, original silk-covered boards, stab-stitched and printed on doubled leaves in the Japanese style, suite of 15 duplicate wood-engraved plates (each signed by the artist in pencil) loose as issued in black thick card portfolio, the book and portfolio housed together in original slipcase;
The Garden of the Night. Twenty-Six Sufi Poems translated by Iftikhar Azmi with Illustrations by Richard Kennedy, 1979. One of 200 copies signed by translator and artist (from the total edition of 240), original cloth-backed boards, slipcase (sunned);
The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. By Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Harold Jones, 1975. One of 720 copies signed by the artist (from the total edition of 750), 4to, original black cloth gilt, slipcase;
A History of the Marlborough College Press 1934-1984. Edited by Richard Russell, 1984. One of 180 copies (from the total edition of 200), 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards, 2 lithographic facsimile broadsides loose in end-pocket as issued;
Marlborough Town and Countryside, 1978. One of 410 copies signed by editor and artist (from the total edition of 420), 4to, original cloth;
C. Day Lewis. Posthumous Poems, 1979. One of 225 copies signed by the editor (from the total edition of 250), 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase (scuffs to front board and slipcase);
Steps to the River. Poems by Roland Gant with Eight Wood-Engravings by Howard Phipps, 1995. One of 160 copies signed by author and artist (from the total edition of 200), 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards;
Poems for Alan Hancox, 1993. One of 300 copies (from the total edition of 350), 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards (10)