Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Sh. Yodovin | A collection of twenty one drawings for title-pages | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 715.00 | ||
| 202 | A. Zakrzhevsky Rytsari Bezumiya (Futuristy) | [Knight's Folly (Futurists)] | Moscow | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 203 | Edward Ardizzone---Bloomfield (Paul) | The Mediterranean | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 572.00 | ||
| 204 | John Austen---Shakespeare (William) | Hamlet | [1922] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 1,210.00 | |
| 205 | Aubrey Beardsley | A large collection of ephemeral pieces and proofs of illustrations | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,420.00 | ||
| 206 | Michael Ayrton---Gray (Cecil) | Gilles de Rais | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 1,430.00 | ||
| 207 | Edward Bawden---Heath (Ambrose) | More Good Food | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 572.00 | ||
| 208 | William Blake---Young (Edward) | The Complaint and the Consolation | 1797 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,870.00 | |
| 209 | William Blake | Jerusalem | [1951] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 484.00 | |
| 210 | William Blake---Keynes (Sir Geoffrey) | William Blakes' Illustrations to the Bible | 1957 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 462.00 | |
| 211 | William Blake---Keynes (Sir Geoffrey) | The Writings of William Blake | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | ||
| 212 | William Blake | The Book of Los | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 213 | Jean de Bosschere | The set of eight coloured etchings to illustrate "Songs of Bilitis" | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 214 | Arthur Boyd---Stark (Peter) | Tomorrow's Ghosts | Guildford | [c.1973] |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 484.00 |
| 215 | Frank Brangwyn---Sparrow (W. Shaw) | The Spirit of the Age | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 216 | Frank Brangwyn---Hutton (Edward) | The Pageant of Venice | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 217 | Sir Edward Burne-Jones | The Flower Book | 1905 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,300.00 | |
| 218 | Patrick Caulfield---Laforgue (Jules) | Some Poems | 1973 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 219 | Ralph Chubb | The Book of God's Madness | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 | ||
| 220 | Ralph Chubb | The Secret Country | 1939 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 550.00 | |
| 221 | Ralph Chubb | The Sun Spirit | Kingclere | 1931 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 990.00 |
| 222 | George Cruikshank and others | The Attorney-General's Charges against the late Queen | [1821] |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 223 | George Cruikshank [and Robert]) | London Characters | "1827" |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 224 | Walter Crane---Spenser (Edmund) | The Shepheard's Calender | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 225 | Dalziel Brothers---The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 286.00 | |||
| 226 | Maurice and Edward Detmold | Illustrations to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book | 1903 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 572.00 | |
| 227 | Edmund Dulac---Poe (Edgar Allan) | The Bells and other poems | [1912] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 462.00 | |
| 228 | Edmund Dulac---Shakespeare (William) | The Tempest | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 297.00 | ||
| 229 | Edmund Dulac, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon, and others | The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals | 1917 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,750.00 | |
| 230 | Lionel Edwards | A Sportsman's Bag | [1926] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 506.00 | |
| 231 | Lionel Edwards | The Passing Seasons | [1927] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 | |
| 232 | Claud Lovat Fraser and others---Macfall (Haldane) | The Splendid Wayfaring | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 396.00 | ||
| 233 | Sir William Russell Flint | The Song of Songs which is Solomon's | 1909 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 | |
| 234 | Sir William Russell Flint---Chaucer (Geoffrey) | The Canterbury Tales | 1913 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | |
| 235 | Sir William Russell Flint---Malory (Sir Thomas) | Le Morte d'Arthur | 1921 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 | |
| 236 | Sir William Russell Flint | Judith | 1928 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 660.00 | |
| 237 | Sir William Russell Flint---Gilbert (W.S.) | Ruddigore | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 238 | Claud Lovat Fraser---Hodgson (Ralph) | The Song of Honour | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 239 | Gillray Qames | The Caricatures of Gillray | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 1,430.00 | ||
| 240 | Warwick Goble---Kingsley (Charles) | The Water Babies | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 241 | James Guthrie | A Book of Intaglio Bookplates | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 858.00 | ||
| 242 | James Guthrie---Bottomley (Gordon) | Frescoes from Buried Temples | 1928 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,375.00 | |
| 243 | Stephen Gooden---Moore (George) | Perronik the Fool | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 244 | Anthony Gross---Bronte (Emily) | Wuthering Heights | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 245 | David Hockney---Cavafy (CP.) | Fourteen Poems | 1966 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 660.00 | |
| 246 | Laurence Housman---Rossetti (Christina) | Goblin Market | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | ||
| 247 | Laurence Housman---Rossetti (Christina) | Goblin Market | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 605.00 | ||
| 248 | William Hogarth | The Works | 1822 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 605.00 | |
| 249 | Reginald and Horace Knowles---Lee (Holme) | Legends from Fairyland | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 250 | Owen Jones---Gray (Thomas) | Elegy | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 251 | Wyndham Lewis | Fifteen Drawings | [1919] |
USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 252 | Wyndham Lewis | Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait | 1932 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 308.00 | |
| 253 | Wyndham Lewis | Apes of God | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 396.00 | ||
| 254 | John Martin---Milton (John) | Paradise Lost | 1827 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 660.00 | |
| 255 | John Nash---Sieveking (L.G.) | Dressing Gowns and Glue | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 297.00 | ||
| 256 | Paul Nash---Ford (Ford Madox) | Mister Bosphorus and the Muses | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 660.00 | ||
| 257 | Kay Nielsen---[Asbjornsen (P.C.) and J.I. Moe] | East of the Sun and West of the Moon | [1912] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 | |
| 258 | Kay Nielsen | In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | [1913] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 605.00 | |
| 259 | Kay Nielsen---Andersen (Hans Christian) | Fairy Tales | New York | [1924] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 |
| 260 | Kay Nielsen | A set of progressive proofs for two illustrations from "East of the Sun | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 2,275.00 | ||
| 261 | William Nicholson---Gay (John) | Polly | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 262 | Mervyn Peake---[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) "Lewis Carroll" | The Hunting of the Snark, pictorial title-page and 15 illustrations | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 396.00 | ||
| 263 | Mervyn Peake | The Craft of the Lead Pencil | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 264 | Mervyn Peake---Joad (C.E.M.) | The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 265 | Mervyn Peake | Mr. Pye | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 266 | Willy Pogany---Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 267 | Arthur Rackham | The Peter Pan Portfolio | [1912] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 6,820.00 | |
| 268 | Arthur Rackham---Fouque (De La Motte) | Undine | 1909 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 638.00 | |
| 269 | Arthur Rackham Malory (Sir Thomas) | The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table | 1917 |
USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 270 | Arthur Rackham---Steel (F.A.) | English Fairy Tales | 1918 |
USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 271 | Arthur Rackham---Evans (C.S.) | Cinderella | 1919 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 272 | Arthur Rackham---Evans (C.S.) | The Sleeping Beauty | 1920 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 273 | Arthur Rackham---Malory (Sir Thomas) | The Romance of King Arthur | 1917 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 528.00 | |
| 274 | Arthur Rackham---Wagner (Richard) | The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 506.00 | ||
| 275 | Arthur Rackham---Irving (Washington) | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | [1928] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 308.00 | |
| 276 | Arthur Rackham---Poe (Edgar Allan) | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1935 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 528.00 | |
| 277 | Arthur Rackham---Barham (T.H.) | The Ingoldsby Legends | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 319.00 | ||
| 278 | Arthur Rackham | Some British Ballads | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 279 | Arthur Rackham---Lamb (Charles and Mary) | Tales from Shakespeare | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 | ||
| 280 | Arthur Rackham---Barham (T.H.) | The Ingoldsby Legends | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 281 | Eric Ravilious | A collection of over 200 picture postcards with views of London and other English towns and villages | [c. 1900-1950] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 282 | Charles Ricketts---Wilde (Oscar) | The Sphinx | 1894 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 990.00 | |
| 283 | W. Heath Robinson---Shakespeare (William) | Twelfth Night | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 284 | Percy Smith | Wuthering Heights: Five Drypoints | 1923 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 285 | Ralph Steadman | Steam Press Portfolio No. 3: 7 poems by Fleur Adcock | 1976 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 286 | Graham Sutherland---Cooper (Douglas) | The Work of Graham Sutherland | 1961 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 1,045.00 | |
| 287 | Graham Sutherland---Man (Felix H.) | 150 Years of Artists' Lithographs | 1953 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | |
| 288 | William Strang---Milton (John) | Paradise Lost | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 374.00 | ||
| 289 | Hans Tegner---Andersen (Hans Christian) | Fairy Tales | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 290 | Hugh Thomson---Goldsmith (Oliver) | She Stoops to Conquer | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 291 | Edward Wadsworth---Drey (O. Raymond) | Edward Wadsworth | 1921 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 5,720.00 | |
| 292 | Andy Warhol---Ting (Wallasse) | One-Cent Life | Bern | 1964 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 528.00 |
| 293 | Rex Whistler | The New Forget-Me-Not | 1929 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 990.00 | |
| 294 | Rex Whistler | The New Forget-Me-Not | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 295 | Lord Alfred Tennyson | The Complete Works | 1898 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 484.00 | |
| 296 | Binding Tools | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 297 | A. de Lamartine | Graziella | Paris | 1888 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 298 | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Poems | Moxon | 1859 |
USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 299 | Raoul Lefevre | The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye | 1892 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 440.00 | |
| 300 | History of Godfreye of Boloyne (The) and of the Conquest of Jerusalem | 1893 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 330.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
