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2:00 AM PT - Oct 29th, 2009

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Children's and Private Press Books

737 items

Lot Description Estimates
(GBP)
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Lot 1
Acton (Eliza) The English Bread-Book

,1857 § Spencer (Edward) The Flowing Bowl, 1899, first editions...

60
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80
2
Lot 2
Austen (Jane) Pride & Prejudice

, Godmersham edition, number 41 of 100 special copies signed by...

60
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80
3
Lot 3
Blackburn (Henry) Ralph Caldecott

, plates, a very good copy in contemporary half morocco, by...

60
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80
4
Lot 4
Briggs (K. M.) Nine Lives: Cats in Folklore


Briggs (Katharine M.) Nine Lives: Cats in Folklore,proof copy...

60
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80
5
Lot 5
Bronte (Charlotte) Jane Eyre

,colour lithographed plates by Barnett Freedman, original cloth...

60
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80
6
Lot 6
Burton (R.F.) Arabian nights

, 16 vol., reprint, quarter leather, in a scarlet leather and nail...

30
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50
7
Lot 7
Charlton (John) Marlborough House

, illustrations by John Ward, original wrappers, 1962 § Arnold (R...

100
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150
8
Lot 8
Church (R) Dinner-Talk at the Saville Club


Church (Richard) Dinner-Talk at the Saville Club,first edition...

60
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80
9
Lot 9
Clark (Kenneth) Feminine beauty

, plates, cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author ("K") to...

50
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100
10
Lot 10
Cohen (Harriet) A Bundle of Time

,presentation copy to H.E. Bates inscribed "the copy that Harriet...

75
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100
11
Lot 11
[Crosby (B)] Caledonian Musical Repository


[Crosby (B)] The Caledonian Musical Repository, frontispiece...

60
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80
12
Lot 12
de Lacy (P.) A brass cornet

, worn and used, the mouthpiece snapped off, but present, stamped...

100
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150
13
Lot 13
Dickinson (Patric) Not Hereafter

,6pp. with original pencil sketches by John Ward, illustrating a...

60
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80
14
Lot 14
Dorment (R.) Alfred Gilbert

, note by JW that it was bought "after finishing drawing of Paul...

100
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200
15
Lot 15
Easels. A 'French' folding easel

, c. 1ft. 3in. by 1ft. 7in., worn and used, various labels...

50
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100
16
Lot 16
Enfield (W.) The young artist's assistant...secon


Enfield (W.) The young artist's assistant...second edition, plates...

100
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200
17
Lot 17
Euripides. The Plays

,translated by Gilbert Murray, 2 vol., number 191 of 500 copies...

150
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200
18
Lot 18
Glover (M) That Astonishing Infantry...


Glover (Michael) That Astonishing Infantry... History of the Royal...

60
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80
19
Lot 19
Grandville (J.-J.). Scenes... des Animaux


Grandville (J.-J.) Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux...

50
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75
20
Lot 20
Grenfell (Joyce) Requests the Pleasure

, inscribed by the author to the Wards, original sketch of Joyce...

100
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150
21
Lot 21
Grimwade (A.) Silver for sale

, inscribed by the author "grateful thanks for adorning such an...

100
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150
22
Lot 22
Guthrie(W)New System of Modern Geography


Guthrie (William) A New System of Modern Geography,new edition...

200
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300
23
Lot 23
Ingamells-Dictionary of British...Travellers


Ingamells (John) A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in...

60
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80
24
Lot 24
J[acques] & Son. Palour compendium games


J[acques] & Son. The Palour Compendium of Amusing Games...

100
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150
25
Lot 25
Jaffe (M.) Van Dyck's Antwerp sketchbook

, 2 vol., 1966 § Ormond (R.) and others. Franz Xaver Winterhalter...

50
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100
26
Lot 26
Kent.- Archaeologia Cantiana

: being Transactions of the Kent Archaeological Society,vol...

40
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60
27
Lot 27
Locke (W. J.) The Wonderful Year

,presentation copy from the author inscribed "To my dearest Aimée...

75
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100
28
Lot 28
Macdonald (M.) James McNeil Whistler...cataalogue


Macdonald (M.) James McNeil Whistler...catalogue raisonne...

50
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80
29
Lot 29
Maud (Constance E.) An English Girl in Paris

, first edition, bookplate of Alison Ward [by John Ward] on front...

200
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300
30
Lot 30
Morgan (F. C.) Trivial Reminiscences

of Old Stratford-upon-Avon,2 vol., [one of...

100
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150
31
Lot 31
Pearce (C.) Composition

, plates, half cloth, loosely inserted draft for dw of John Hardy...

200
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300
32
Lot 32
Pissarro (Camille) Letters to his son

, markings by JW, including passage on p. 47 ,("I have just...

100
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200
33
Lot 33
Platt (Norman) Making Music

,presentation copy from the author to the Wards, original cloth...

60
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80
34
Lot 34
Punch. Twenty Almanacks 1842-61


Punch. Twenty Almanacks 1842-61, 1861 § Illustrated London News...

100
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150
35
Lot 35
Reff (T.) The notebooks of Edgar Degas

, 2 vol., plates, cloth, dust jackets, Oxford, 1976; and others...

50
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100
36
Lot 36
RIchards (J.M.) The bombed buildings of Britain

1943 § Moore (N.)F.L.Griggs, 1999, plates, cloth; and 22 others...

100
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120
37
Lot 37
Rodd (Sir R) Rome of the Renaissance...


Rodd (Sir Rennell) Rome of the Renaissance and To-day,presentation...

60
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80
38
Lot 38
Ruskin (John) Lectures on landscape

plates, some a bit stained, cloth, rubbed, Orpington, 1897; and...

50
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100
39
Lot 39
Scott (Sir Walter)

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland,vol. 1 only (of...

100
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200
40
Lot 40
Smith (J.T.) Nollekens

, page of notes by JW inserted "more interesting to write abgout a...

100
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200
41
Lot 41
Smith (R.S.) Wood Engravings, 1983


Smith (Richard Shirley) Wood Engravings: a selection, 1960 to...

150
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200
42
Lot 42
Spencer (Gilbert) Memoirs of a painter

, cloth, letter inserted from the artists daughter thanking JW for...

100
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150
43
Lot 43
Stanley (A.P.) A Smaller Biblia Pauperum


Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn) A Smaller Biblia Pauperum, facsimilie...

60
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80
44
Lot 44
Savoy (The)


[Symons (Arthur)] The Savoy ,vol. I only, illustrations by Aubrey...

60
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80
45
Lot 45
Tristram&Constable. English Medieval Wall...


Tristram (E. W.) and (W.G.) Constable. English Medieval Wall...

200
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300
46
Lot 46
Walker (F) Twenty-Seven Illustrations...


Walker (Frederick) Twenty-Seven Illustrations... for "The Cornhill...

100
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150
47
Lot 47
Whistler (J.) Eden versus Whistler

, Paris, 1899 § Marks (Henry Stacy)Pen and pencil sketches, 2 vol...

50
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100
48
Lot 48
Whitehead.The Key to Railway Investments


Whitehead (John) The Key to Railway Investments,part v...

60
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80
49
Lot 49
Whitney (W.) Gericault in Italy

, 1997 § Scott (J.)Salvator Rosa, 1995 plates, cloth, dust jackets...

50
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100
50
Lot 50
Wordsworth (William) Poems

,illustrations by E. H. New, original cloth, rubbed...

75
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100
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