Sothebys: Illustrated Books, Childrens Books and Related Drawings., LN8285,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 07, 1998 - May 07, 1998

Page Size: 390 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Morris (William)	News from Nowhere		1893	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	920.00
2	Malory (Sir Thomas)	The Noble and Joyous Boke entytled Le Morte Darthur		1923	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
3	Stephen Gooden	Holy Bible (The)		1929	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	253.00
4	Simon (Oliver, editor)	The Curwen Press Miscellany		1931	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	713.00
5		Ecclesiasticus. The Wisdom of Jesus		1932	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	506.00
6	Dickens (Charles)	The Cricket on the Hearth		1952	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	299.00
7	Joinville (John, Lord of)	The History of Saint Louis		1937	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	977.00
8	Durer (Albrecht)	The Little Passion	Verona	1971	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	517.00
9		Terentius Afer (Publius). A Comedy		1971	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	368.00
10	Torniello da Navara (Francesco)	The Alphabet	Verona	1971	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	414.00
11	Gogol (Nikolay)	The Overcoat	Verona	1975	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	402.00
12	Dickens (Charles), Bennett (Arnold), Spenser (Edmund)	The Pickwick Papers			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	299.00
13	Dumas (Alexandre)	The Three Musketeers		1971	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	287.00
14	Kingsley (Charles), Browning (Robert), Scott (Walter), Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Westward Ho!	Cambridge	1971	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	253.00
15	Peattie (Donald Culross), Dreiser (Theodore), Masters (Edgar Lee), Frost (Robert), Leach (MacEdward), Macfarlan (Allan)	An Almanac for Moderns	New York	1959	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
16	Shakespeare (William)	The Works		1939-1941	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	517.00
17	Sheridan (Richard Brinsley)	The School for Scandal	New York	1971	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
18	Tolstoy (Leo)	Anna Karenina	New York	1932	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00
19	Apuleius (Lucius)	Virgil. The Aeneid	Verona	1930	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
20	Guerin (Maurice de)	The Centaur		1924	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
21	Voigt (Hans Henning von)	"Alastair"-Pater (Walter) Sebastian van Storck		1930	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	322.00
22	Austen (John)-Longus	Daphnis and Chloe			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	253.00
23	Beardsley (Aubrey)-Malory (Sir Thomas)	The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table ... le Morte Darthur		1893-1894	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	368.00
24	Beardsley (Aubrey)-Malory (Sir Thomas)	The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	483.00
25	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly		April 1894-April 1897	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	368.00
26	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly		1920	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	483.00
27	Beardsley (Aubrey) and others-Symons (Arthur, editor)	The Savoy, an Illustrated Quarterly		1896	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	483.00
28	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Savoy		1896	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	368.00
29	Bewick (Thomas)	Six wood-engravings comprising a stag, a man smoking a pipe, a man lying asleep under some bushes			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
30	Blake (William)	Young (Edward) The Complaint and the Consolation, or Night Thoughts		1797	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,760.00
31	Blake (William)-Blair (Robert)	The Grave		1808	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,092.00
32	Bomberg (David)	Russian Ballei, half-title			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
33	Bomberg (David)	Russian Ballet, half-title		1919	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
34	Brangwyn (Frank)	Stokes (Frank) Belgium		1916	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	253.00
35	Brangwyn (Frank)	Urushibara (Yoshijiro) Ten Woodcuts after Designs by Frank Brangwyn		1924	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	862.00
36	Brangwyn (Frank)	The Book of Job		1948	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,092.00
37	Brangwyn (Frank), Stokes (Frank), Omar Khayyam, Preston (Hayter)	Kinglake (A.W.) Eolhen, dust jacket			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	575.00
38	Carse (Duncan)-Andersen (Hans)	Fairy Tales		1912	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	299.00
39	Clarke (Harry)	Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust		1925	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
40	Clarke (Harry)-Poe (Edgar Allan)	Tales of Mystery and Imagination			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
41	Craig (Edward Gordon)	The Mask, an Illustrated Quarterly Journal of the An of the Theatre	Flormce	1908-1928	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	977.00
42	Craig (Edward Gordon)	The Mask, an Illustrated Quarterly Journal of the Art of the Theatre		1908-1929	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	253.00
43	Craig (Edward Gordon)	The Art of the Theatre		1928	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	552.00
44	Craig (Edward Gordon)	Scene		1923	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
45	Doyle (Richard)-Allingham (William)	In Fairyland		1875	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	368.00
46	Dulac (Edmund)-Rosenthal (Leonard)	The Kingdom of the Pearl		1920	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	299.00
47	Dulac (Edmund)-Omar Khayyam	The Rubaiyat		1909	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	747.00
48	Dulac (Edmund)-Poe (Edgar Allan)	The Bells		1912	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
49	Dulac (Edmund)-Poe (Edgar Allan)	The Bells and other Poems		1912	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	747.00
50	Dulac (Edmund)-Rosenthal (Leonard)	The Kingdom of the Pearl		1920	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	299.00
51	Dulac (Edmund)-Housman (Laurence)	Princess Badoura, a Tale from the Arabian Nights		1913	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	299.00
52	Dulac (Edmund)	Andersen (Hans) Stories			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	747.00
53	Dulac (Edmund)-Shakespeare (William)	The Tempest			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
54	Dulac (Edmund)	Rosenthal (Leonard) Au rouyaume de la perle		1928	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	345.00
55	Dulac (Edmund)	Omar Khayyam	New York	1927	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	414.00
56	Emerson (P.H.)	Marsh Leaves		1895	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	2,530.00
57	Flint (Sir William Russell)	In Pursuit		1967	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
58	Flint (Sir William Russell) Malory (SirThomas)	Le Morte d'Arthur			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	368.00
59	Gibbings (Robert)	Empson (Patience, editor) The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings		1959	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00
60	Gill (Eric)	Wood-Engravings		1924	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	862.00
61	Gooden (Stephen)	la Fontaine (Jean de) Fables		1931	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	299.00
62	Gooden (Stephen)	Aesop Fables		1936	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	483.00
63	Gooden (Stephen), Cowley (Abraham)	Anacreon		1938	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	483.00
64	Hockney (David)	Cavafy (C.P.) Fourteen Poems		1966	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	862.00
65	Jones (David)	The Chester Play of the Deluge		1977	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	414.00
66	Kauffer (E. McKnight)	Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		1938	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
67	Leighton (Clare)	A Farmer's Year, a suite of 12 proof wood-engravings each captioned		1933	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	3,220.00
68	Lewis (Wyndham)	Timon of Athens		1914	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
69	Lowinsky (Thomas)-Shakespeare (William)	The Merchant of Venice		1925	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
70	Mackley (George)	McLean (Ruari) Engraved in the Wood		1968	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
71	Nielsen (Kay)	Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) In Powder and Crinoline		1913	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	414.00
72	Nielsen (Kay)	Pilon (Edmund) A L'Est du soleil et a l'ouest de la lime	Paris	1919	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	805.00
73	Nielsen (Kay)	Andersen (Hans Christian) Fairy Tales		1924	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,000.00	2,185.00
74	Nielsen (Kay)	Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) In Powder and Crinoline			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	632.00
75	Parrish (Maxfield)	Field (Eugene) Poems of Childhood		1908	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
76	Rackham (Arthur)	Irving (Washington) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow		1928	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	598.00
77	Rackham (Arthur)	Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield		1929	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	345.00
78	Rackham (Arthur)- Goldsmiih (Oliver)	The Vicar of Wakefield		1929	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
79	Rackham (Arthur)	Barrie (Sir J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		1912	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	368.00
80	Rackham (Arthur)	Barrie (Sir J.M.) Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens		1906	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,610.00
81	Rackham (Arthur)	Evans (C.S.) Cinderella		1919	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
82	Rackham (Arthur)-Walton (Izaak)	The Compleat Angler		1931	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	517.00
83	Rackham (Arthur)-[Barham (T.J.)]	The Ingoldsby Legends	New York	1967	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	172.00
84	Rackham (Arthur)	Aesop		1910	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
85	Rackham (Arthur)	Barrie (Sir J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		1912	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	414.00
86	Ricketts (Charles)	Jean Paul Raymond		1929	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	529.00
87	Thomson (Hugh)-Goldsmith (Oliver)	She Stoops to Conquer		1912	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00
88	Thomson (Hugh)	Quality Street		1914	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
89	Thomson (Hugh)-Dobson (Austin)	The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems		1892	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	322.00
90	Vickers (V.C.)	The Google Book		1931	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	230.00
91	Whistler (Rex)	Engravings by Rex Whistler for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels		1970	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	460.00
92	Wilson (Edward)-Stevenson (Robert Louis)	Treasure Island			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00
93		Neustes ABC-Buch zum Geschenk fiir gute Kinder		1800	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	460.00
94		Allerlei lustige Bilder fiir brave Kinder			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
95	Mere Cigogne	Almanach des dames et demoiselles	Paris	1851-1864	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	172.00
96	Bannerman (Helen)	The Story of Little Black Quibba		1902	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	276.00
97	Brooke (L. Leslie)	Lang (Andrew editor)		1878	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
98	Bursill (Henry), Hood (Thomas), Ballantine (Robert)	Hand Shadows			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	506.00
99	Goldsmith (Oliver), Mrs. Mary Blaize	Courtship			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	299.00
100	Crane (Walter)	Triplets comprising The Baby's Opera			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

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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.
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