Sothebys: MODERN CONTINENTAL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS INCLUDING MANY UNIQUE COPIES ACCOMPANIED BY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THE PROPERTY OF A CONTINENTAL COLLECTOR, ENSEMBLE,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 24, 1983 - January 24, 1983
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 396 | Aubrey Beardsley | The Yellow Book | 1894-1897 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 | |
| 397 | Aubrey Beardsley | Poster for the Savoy | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 209.00 | ||
| 398 | Aubrey Beardsley | Poster for The Savoy | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 198.00 | ||
| 399 | Aubrey Beardsley | The Poster | 1898-1901 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 | |
| 400 | Aubrey Beardsley | Poster for The Spinster's Scrip | 1895 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 401 | Thomas Bewick | History of British Birds | Newcastle | 1797 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 154.00 |
| 402 | Thomas Bewick | Figures of British Land Birds | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1800 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 110.00 |
| 403 | Thomas Bewick Aesop | Fables | Newcastle | 1818 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 165.00 |
| 404 | William Blake | Jerusalem | [1951] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 | |
| 405 | Century Guild Hobby Horse (The) | 1886-1891 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 418.00 | ||
| 406 | Graham Clarke | Balyn and Balan | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 407 | Graham Clarke - Birthwhistle (John) | The Vision of Wat Tyler | Boughton Monchelsea | 1972 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 176.00 |
| 408 | Walter Crane | Queen Summer | 1891 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 242.00 | |
| 408A | Edward Gordon Craig - Shakespeare William) | The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of DENMARKE | Weimar | 1930 |
GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 409 | Maurice and Edward Detmold | Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book | 1903 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 | |
| 410 | Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold | London | 1872 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 110.00 | |
| 411 | Richard Doyle - Allingham (William) | In Fairyland | 1870 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 412 | Edmund Dulac | Sinbad the Sailor | [1911] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 413 | Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) | The Bells and Other Poems | [1912] |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 110.00 | |
| 414 | Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) | The Bells and Other Poems | [1912] |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 187.00 | |
| 415 | Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) | The Bells and Other Poems | [1912] |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 | |
| 416 | Edmund Dulac Apuleius | The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche | New York | 1951 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 417 | Edmund Dulac Omar Khayyam | Rubaiyat | [1907] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 | |
| 418 | Edmund Dulac | Stories from the Arabian Nights | GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 165.00 | ||
| 419 | Edmund Dulac - Newbolt (Henry) | Drake's Drum | 1928 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 420 | Sir W. Russell Flint | The Song of Songs which is Solomon's | 1909 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 165.00 | |
| 421 | Birket Foster - Scott (Sir Walter) | The Lady of the Lake | 1853 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 | |
| 422 | Birket Foster | A Book of Modern Ballards | 1860 |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 308.00 | |
| 423 | Elizabeth Frink - Chaucer (Geoffrey) | Canterbury Tales | Waddington | 1972 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 |
| 424 | Robert Gibbings | Lucian of Samosata | 1927 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 231.00 | |
| 425 | Eric Gill | The Songs of Songs | 1925 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 | |
| 426 | Eric Gill | Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi | 1926 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 | |
| 427 | Eric Gill | Wood-Engravings | 1924 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 | |
| 428 | Eric Gill | Wood-Engravings | 1924 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 | |
| 429 | Eric Gill - Chaucer (Geoffrey) | Troilus and Criseyde | 1927 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,760.00 | |
| 430 | Eric Gill - Chaucer (Geoffrey) | The Canterbury Tales | 1929-1931 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,045.00 | |
| 431 | Eric Gill | The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ | 1931 |
GBP 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 432 | Eric Gill - Clay (Enid) | Sonnets and Verses | 1931 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 198.00 | |
| 433 | Eric Gill | Engravings | 1934 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | |
| 434 | Eric Gill - Pepler (Douglas) | The Devil's Devices | 1930 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 | |
| 435 | Anthony Gross Theocritus | Sixe Idyllia | Clover Hill Editions | 1971 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 436 | David Hockney - Cavafy (C.P.) | Fourteen Poems | Editions Alecto | 1967 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 825.00 |
| 437 | Laurence Housman | The Blue Moon | 1904 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 88.00 | |
| 438 | David Jones - Swift (Jonathan) | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World | 1925 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 | |
| 439 | David Jones - [Swift (Jonathan)] | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World | 1925 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 | |
| 440 | David Jones - Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Bristol | 1929 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 |
| 441 | Owen Jones | The Psalms of David | [1861] |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 | |
| 442 | Shirley Jones | The Same Sun | Kenley | [1978] |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 443 | Ronald King | The Song of Solomon | Guildford | 1968 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 444 | Ronald King - Shakespeare (William) | Macbeth | 1970 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 445 | Ronald King - Shakespeare (William) | Macbeth | 1970 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 446 | Legion Book (The) | 1929 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 1,210.00 | ||
| 447 | Wyndham Lewis | Timon of Athens | [1914] |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 935.00 | |
| 448 | Wyndham Lewis | Fifteen Drawings | [1919] |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 550.00 | |
| 449 | Wyndham Lewis | Thirty Personalities and Self-Portrait | 1932 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 242.00 | |
| 450 | Wyndham Lewis | Fifteen Drawings | 1915 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 132.00 | |
| 451 | John Martin - Milton (John) | Paradise Lost | 1827 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 825.00 | |
| 452 | John Martin - Milton (John) | Paradise Lost | Whittingham | 1846 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 |
| 453 | John Martin | Illustrations of the Bible | 1839 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 242.00 | |
| 454 | Donald Maxwell - Kipling (Rudyard) | Sea and Sussex | 1926 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 | |
| 455 | Thomas Moring | One Hundred Book Plates | 1936 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 456 | Barry Moser - Melville (Herman) | Moby-Dick | San Francisco | 1979 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 495.00 |
| 457 | Barry Moser | Thirteen Botanical Wood Engravings | Easthampton | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 264.00 | |
| 458 | Jessica Mycroft-Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) | Cubla Khan | 1978 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 459 | Paul Nash - Browne (Sir Thomas) | Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus | 1932 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 | |
| 460 | Paul Nash | Places | [1925] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 461 | Sir William Nicholson | The Book of Blokes | [1929] |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 253.00 | |
| 462 | Sir William Nicholson | The Pirate Twins | [1930] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 396.00 | |
| 463 | Kay Nielsen | In Powder and Crinoline | spine | [1913] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 385.00 |
| 464 | Kay Nielsen - Grimm (W.C. and J.L.C.) | Fleur-de-Neige et d'Autres Contes | Paris | 1929 |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 242.00 |
| 465 | John O'Connor Schutzer-Weissmann (Michael) | In Nomine Domini: Lives of the Composers | 1974 |
USD 175.00 - 225.00 | Not Sold | |
| 466 | Robert Proctor | Omerou Odysseia | 1909 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 | |
| 467 | Arthur Rackham - Wagner (Richard) | The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie | 1910-1911 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 264.00 | |
| 468 | Arthur Rackham - Dodgson (C.L.) | Lewis Carroll | [1907] |
GBP 125.00 - 175.00 | 143.00 | |
| 469 | Arthur Rackham - Wagner (Richard) | Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods | 1911 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 110.00 | |
| 470 | Arthur Rackham | Book of Pictures | 1913 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 286.00 | |
| 471 | Arthur Rackham - Malory (Sir Thomas) | The Romance of King Arthur | 1917 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 209.00 | |
| 472 | Arthur Rackham- Walton (Sir Izaak) | The Compleat Angler | 1931 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 473 | Arthur Rackham - Walton (Izaak) | The Compleat Angler | 1931 |
GBP 220.00 - 280.00 | 297.00 | |
| 474 | Arthur Rackham - Swinburne (A.C.) | The Springtide of Life | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 143.00 | ||
| 475 | Arthur Rackham - Barham (R.H.) | The Ingoldsby Legends | [1919] |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 220.00 | |
| 476 | Arthur Rackham - Grimm (J.L.C. and W.C.) | Hansel and Gretel | 1920 |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 462.00 | |
| 477 | E. H. Shepard - Grahame (Kenneth) | The Wind in the Willows | 1931 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | |
| 478 | E. H. Shepard - Grahame (Kenneth) | The Golden Age | 1928 |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 363.00 | |
| 479 | Lynd Ward | God's Man | 1930 |
GBP 175.00 - 225.00 | 187.00 | |
| 480 | Rex Whistler | A Calendar for 1940-41 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 481 | James Brockman - Powys (Llewelyn) | The Book of Days | 1937 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 495.00 | |
| 482 | Ivor Robinson Aeschylus | The Agamemnon | Cambridge | 1969 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 483 | Jeff Clements Emerson (Ralph Waldo) | Compensation | 1903 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 253.00 | |
| 484 | Jeff Clements Suetonius | The Historie of Twelve Caesars | 1931 |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 485 | Jeff Clements- Flinders (Matthew) | Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis | 1946 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 486 | B. PLUMLEY Aesop | Four Fables | 1972 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 487 | R. Andre and others | A collection of 24 ink and wash drawings for pictorial initials | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 488 | Edward Ardizzone | Four ink drawings for illustrations | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 242.00 | ||
| 489 | Nicolas Bentley | A series of thirty ink drawings for cartoons | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 198.00 | ||
| 490 | Nicholas Bentley | A series of 62 ink caricatures | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 491 | Nicolas Bentley | A series of thirty ink drawings for cartoons | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 198.00 | ||
| 492 | Edmund Dulac | A fine watercolour drawing of Harlequin and Columbine in a formal garden | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 493 | Eric Gill | A fine pencil portrait of a woman | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 154.00 | ||
| 494 | Eric Gill | Woodblock of a naked man approaching a reclining woman | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 154.00 |
![<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.")
