Lot 256
Hassall, Joan, a collection of original and printed material including
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
2 watercolours, one inscribed "Potentilla for "S[ydney] C. C[ockerell] from J.H. 29.5.49", 190x100mm., the other of aquilegia, unsigned; original pencil drawing, head of a sleeping beauty, signed and inscribed to Sydney Cockerell, 90x 110mm.; Hassall, Joan To William Maxwell, upon the success of his endeavours to obtain a grant of £400 to buy equipment for the book-production class in the College of Art, Edinburgh, 1943. Number 1 of 4 copies, signed "Joan Hassall, printrix", quarter cloth, uncut, in original envelope with label; Young, Andrew Quiet as moss. 1959, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, original cloth, dustwrapper spotted; Hassall, Joan Twenty original scraper board drawings, average size c. 40x100mm., one signed; Hassall, Joan Three Saltire chapbooks [4, 5, & 10], each with design by Hassall, each inscribed, with stage proofs (on two sheets) of 5 of the engravings inscribed to Sydney Cockerell; photograph of Joan Hassall engraving inscribed by Hassall and dated 15.11.49, 65x75mm.; Brief C.V. in Joan Hassall's hand on card with educational details and list of books containing her work (sent to Sydney Cockerell); copies of works illustrated by Hassall including Signature 1, 1946; The Folio, May-June 1949, A reader's guide: enjoying poetry by C. Day Lewis, Morison: The Typographic Arts, 1944; Opera and the Gourmet. Calendar 1963; Harris, P.W.: Photography. 1950; Jackson, H.: Pleasures of Reading. 1948; Beauchamp Bookshop Ltd. Catalogue, 1948; Lee, B.N. Joan Hassall, an address. 1988. One of 200 copies; Trollope, A.: Christmas day at Kirkby Cottage (2 copies); Burnett, D. The heart's undesign, author's corrected proofs and proof copy in wrappers, 1977; Symonds, R.W.: English Furniture. 1948; and 8 other National Book League Reader's Guide series, in wrappers