Lot 264
Private Press
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Hermes, Gertrude Wood engravings...being illustrations to Selborne... Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1988. Small folio, number 81 of 240 copies, 6 full-page illustrations, contemporary brown and white printed boards; Verney, Parthenope, Lady Florence Nightingale's pet owl Athena... San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. 8vo., one of 300 copies signed by the publisher, contemporary blue damask; Tennyson, Alfred The devil and the lady. London: MacMillan and Co., 1930. 8vo., contemporary quarter vellum with swirl-patterned handmade paper, spine slightly darkened (2 copies); Picasso, Pablo Pour Eugenia... Paris: Berggruen, 1976. Oblong 4to., a copy of a suite of 24 drawings which Picasso made in 1918, original grey boards; Gray, Thomas An elegy written in a country churchyard. Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1995. Oblong folio, number 9 of fifteen copies signed by the binders, 29 watercolour illustrations by Nicholas Parry, original green quarter morocco with floral woven fabric (6)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire