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

Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
801	Winifred Green	Twenty seven ink drawings to illustrate charles and mary Lamb's "poetry for Children"		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,430.00
802	Weedon Grossmith	Thirty two ink drawings to illustrate "The Diary of a Nobody"		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	11,000.00
803	Lucy Kemp-Welch	Twenty five paintings and drawings to illustrate anna SeWELL's "black Beauty" : 2 oil paintings of Black Beauty and other horses at a fair	1915	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	12,100.00
804	Jessie M. King	A fine ink drawing on vellum depicting a knight in armour and a girl kneeling befoe a woman standing with a chalice		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	20,900.00
805	Jessie M. King	A fine ink drawing on vellum depicting an armoured knight on horseback		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	4,400.00
806	Jessie M. King	A fine ink drawing on vellum depicting an armoured knight riding towards a girl standing beside a crucifix		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	4,950.00
807	Jessie M. King	A fine ink drawing on vellum depicting a girl walking beside a knight on horseback		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	8,800.00
808	Jessie M. King	Twenty three fine ink drawings on vellum for "THE HIGH HISTORY of the HOLY Graal"		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,850.00
809	W. B. Macdougall	Nineteen drawings for "The Book of Ruth" including 4 large illustrations within ornamental borders	1896	GBP 500.00 - 750.00	660.00
810	W. B. Macdougall	Twelve ink drawings for "The Fall of the Nibelungs"	1896-1897	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	2,200.00
811	L. Fairfax Muckley	An extensive collection of ink drawings for Spenser's "The Faerie Queene": 5 double-page illustrations		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,180.00
812	Frank C. Pape	A large ink and watercolour drawing of a knight and three others at the feet of a giant in his lair		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,540.00
813	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the ZaNKIWANK with a young boy and girl	1896	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	2,750.00
814	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the two children in the basket of a balloon	1896	GBP 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	4,400.00
815	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the Zankiwank rushing past a young boy and girl and a policeman towards the door of a post office	1896	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	2,750.00
816	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the Zankiwank leaping in the air above the two children and a hare	1896	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,750.00
817	Arthur Rackham	Ten ink drawings to illustrate "ThE ZaNKIWANK and the BlETHERWITCH"	'96	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	7,150.00
818	Arthur Rackham	Ink drawing for the title-page of "Through a Glass Lightly"		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
819	Arthur Rackham	Eleven ink drawings for headpieces and vignettes depicting gardens	1899	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	308.00
820	Arthur Rackham	Twelve ink drawings	'99	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
821	Arthur Rackham	Seven ink drawings of cricketers and golfers	1900	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,210.00
822	Arthur Rackham	Forty ink drawings for the "Ingoldsby Legends"		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	18,700.00
823	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of a nocturnal scene	1901	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,520.00
824	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the queen of the fairies	1901	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	8,250.00
825	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of the queen of the fairies	1901	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,400.00
826	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of a man teased by fairies and elves	1901	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,080.00
827	Arthur Rackham	Ink and watercolour drawing of a boy driving a horse and cart	1901	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,750.00
828	Arthur Rackham	A large ink and watercolour drawing of a well-dressed giant	1901	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,300.00
829	Arthur Rackham	Four ink drawings		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,265.00
830	Charles Robinson	A large ink drawing of the moon looking through clouds at an angel carrying a child		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,870.00
831	Charles Robinson	A large ink drawing of a man opening a door for a woman at night		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
832	Charles Robinson	A large ink drawing of a mermaid supporting the head of a man in the waves	1899	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,210.00
833	Charles Robinson	A set of four large ink drawings		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,430.00
834	Charles Robinson	Eleven ink drawings to illustrate Le motte FoUQUE's "SINTRAM AND his Companions"		GBP 500.00 - 750.00	495.00
835	Charles Robinson	A large ink and watercolour drawing of Odysseus	1900	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,870.00
836	Charles Robinson	Twenty eight large ink drawings for "the adventures of odysseus"		GBP 1,750.00 - 2,000.00	1,760.00
837	Charles Robinson	Eleven ink drawings to illustrate George Sand's "The Master Mosaic Workers"		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,980.00
838	Charles Robinson	Ink drawing of three goblins beside a sleeping child		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	1,980.00
839	Charles Robinson	A fine ink and watercolour drawing of a young girl and a lamb standing on a hillside		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,300.00
840	Charles Robinson	A fine ink and watercolour drawing of four girls around the bedside of a sleeping child		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,950.00
841	Charles Robinson	A large collection of drawings to illustrate "THE reign of KlNG ObEROn"		GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	11,000.00
842	Charles Robinson	A collection of fine ink drawings for Annie Matheson's "Songs of Love and Praise"		GBP 500.00 - 750.00	1,100.00
843	Charles Robinson	A pair of fine ink drawings depicting angels singing		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
844	Thomas Heath Robinson	Eleven drawings to illustrate Charles Kingsley's "The Heroes"		GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,500.00
845	Thomas Heath Robinson	Eleven drawings to illustrate "Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights"		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	7,150.00
846	Thomas Heath Robinson	Six ink drawings for full-page illustrations to Katherine F. Boult's "Heroes of the Norselands"		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	715.00
847	Thomas Heath Robinson	Seven ink drawings for full-page illustrations to Thomas Browne's "Tom Brown's Schooldays"		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,980.00
848	Thomas Heath Robinson	Eight ink drawings to illustrate "King Lear"		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
849	Thomas Heath Robinson	Three drawings to illustrate "Julius Caesar"		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
850	Thomas Heath Robinson	Six large ink drawings for full-page illustrations to "Macbeth"		GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	880.00
851	Thomas Heath Robinson	Three large ink drawings to illustrate "The King with the Ugly Face"		GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,320.00
852	Thomas Heath Robinson	Fifty four drawings to illustrate "Una and the Knight and other Tales" including three watercolour designs for the frontispiece		GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,050.00
853	William Heath Robinson	A pair of ink and watercolour drawings depicting Father Christmas entering a room in which six children are hiding below or behind a large bed; and the children watching him disappearing up the chimney		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,400.00
854	William Heath Robinson	Six ink drawings for the full-page illustrations to Geraldine Hodgson's "Rama and the Monkeys"		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,980.00
855	William Heath Robinson	A set of ten large ink drawings for full-page illustrations to "Don Quixote"		GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	9,350.00
856	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Don Quixote on a donkey		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,980.00
857	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Don Quixote on his horse		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,870.00
858	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Don Quixote on his horse		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,980.00
859	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Dorothea seated by a stream		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
860	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Sancho Panza dressed as a jester on his donkey		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,540.00
861	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Don Quixote standing by a knight lying on a tomb		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,420.00
862	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza astride a wooden Pegasus		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
863	William Heath Robinson	Watercolour drawing of DON quixote and sancho PaNZA conversing with two shepherdesses		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,980.00
864	Harry Rountree	An oil painting of a Maori chieftain in feather robe		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,155.00
865	Harry Rountree	Forty two humorous ink drawings to illustrate "The Golfer's Companion"		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	3,080.00
866	Margaret Tarrant	Twenty one drawings to illustrate Charles Kingsley's "The Water-Babies"		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	9,900.00
867	Margaret Tarrant	Twenty five drawings to illustrate Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	9,900.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.