Lot 233
Chinnery, George
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A portfolio of six drawings by George Chinnery, 1774-1852, depicting scenes of life in China in the early nineteenth century. London: Curwen Studio, [1960], illustrations; Hopkinson, Smith F. In Thackeray's London. Doubleday, Page & Co: Garden City, New York, [1913]. Portfolio of images only, 21 prints, some slight foxing. Cunninghame Graham, R.B. and Cameron, Sir D.Y. The District of Menteith. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1930 (Edition de Luxe). Folio, in presentation case, contemporary quarter calf, dust-jacket, signed by the author and illustrator with separate hand written letter from illustrator to Campbell Dodgson, number 22 of 250 copies, contains one original etching by Cameron and 10 reproductions of wash drawings (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire