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
302 Bond (Simon) A 101 Uses of a Dead Cat

1981

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
303 Bond (Simon) A 101 Uses of a Dead Cat

1981

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
304 Brangwyn (Frank) Five ink drawings with occasional wash

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,185.00
305 Brock (Charles Edward) Nineteen drawings to illustrate Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,050.00
306 Brock (Charles Edward) leven drawings to illustrate Charles Dickens' The Cricket on lite Hearth

1905

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
307 Brock (Charles Edward) Eighteen ink and watercolour drawings lor Jane Austen's Persuasion

GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
308 Brock (Charles Edward) Twenty ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
309 Brock (Charles Edward) The complete set of twenty-four ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's Emma

GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
310 Brock (Henry Matthew) Fourteen large ink drawings to illustrate Private Bobs and

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 805.00
311 Buchinger (Matthew) Exodus Chapter XX Germany

June the 3, 1674

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 1,265.00
312 Cedric Olivers Two watercolour designs for a vellucent binding by Cedric Olivers for Boccaccio's Decammeron

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
313 Chishoim (Christine) One hundred ink drawings to illustrate Sent to Coventry by Donalds J. Dickie

June 1988

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 575.00
314 Chishoim (Christine) Forty-nine drawings to illustrate A.G. Ball's Rovers of the Valley

1928

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 126.00
315 Crane (Walter) Cinderella

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 13,800.00
316 Crane (Walter) The Cragbaron

1893

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
317 Folkard (Charles James) Thirty eight drawings to illustrate Alice Hoffman's The Children's Shakespeare

GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
318 Goodall (John Strickland) All Together!

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
319 Gordon Riots The

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
320 Hardy (Dudley), Cruikshank (George), Partridge (Bernard), Stampa (G.L.) Two large sheets of ink drawings portraying many separate people or groups in Paris

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 299.00
321 Jaques (Faith) The complete set of drawings for Charlie and the

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,495.00
322 Le Cain (Errol) Two watercolour drawings

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
323 Monkey's Ball The

1920

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
324 Rackham (Arthur) A watercolour drawing of an orchard

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
325 Rackham (Arthur) An ink and watercolour view of Walberswick in Suffolk depicting boats and houses along the sea-shore

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
326 Rackham (Arthur) A fine ink drawing for the heading to chapter one of Wliere

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 517.00
327 Rackham (Arthur) Two ink drawings for The Pied Piper of Hamelin comprising

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 2,530.00
328 Rackham (Arthur) An ink drawing for Wliere the Blue Begins of a tramp with a bottle in his capacious pocket

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 460.00
329 Rackham (Arthur) Two ink drawings

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 437.00
330 Rackham (Arthur) A group of three ink drawings for Aesop's Fables

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,495.00
331 Rackham (Arthur) A watercolour drawing of a large clump of thistles with blue and while flowers set against a cloudy summer sky

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,380.00
332 Rackham (Arthur) A fine ink drawing for Rip van Winkle

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,610.00
333 Rackham (Arthur) An ink and watercolour view of Tewkesbury

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 1,150.00
334 Rackham (Arthur) The Soldier and the Prince Philadelphia

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
335 Rackham (Arthur) Two watercolour drawings depicting a boy and girl beside a stream

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 1,092.00
336 Rackham (Arthur) A fine pen and ink drawing of Peter Pan sitting in his sailing boat

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,220.00
337 Rackham (Arthur) A group of four ink drawings each depicting goblins or elves

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 862.00
338 Rackham (Arthur) Two pencil and watercolour views of Nuremberg

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 437.00
339 Rackham (Arthur) A collection of six ink drawings on five sheets including a boy in a sailing boat

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 862.00
340 Rackham (Arthur) Four ink silhouette drawings on two sheets for Sleeping Beauty

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,092.00
341 Rackham (Arthur) A fine and amusing ink drawing for Punch magazine depicting the interior of a suburban house and various scenes in the children's bedrooms

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
342 Rackham (Arthur) An ink drawing of two men

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 287.00
343 Rackham (Arthur) An early ink and walercolour drawing of a flock of sheep walking down a road past fences and Fields

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
344 Rackham (Arthur) An ink and watercolour drawing of beech trees

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,150.00
345 Rackham (Arthur) Brunhilde implores the Valkyries

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,750.00
346 Rackham (Arthur) The Monastery Garden

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 4,600.00
347 Richards (Ceri) Two early watercolour drawings

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
348 Robinson (Thomas Heath) A large collection of seventy-five ink drawings for Of the Imitation ofjesvs Christ

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
349 Robinson (William Heath) Ink drawing of a barefoot woman on a country road cradling

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 345.00
350 Robinson (William Heath) Waterlow Park

Feb. 1945

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,185.00
351 Robinson (William Heath) In the Middle of the Bog there is a kind of Lake

1899

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
352 Searle (Ronald) Barbers at a Barbecue

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 575.00
353 Payne (Charles Johnson) "Snaffles" The 33rd

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
354 Spare (Austin Osman) Druidesque

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 161.00
355 Staniland (C.J.) Norfolk Nooks a Trip on a Tandem by the Skipper and his Boy

1952

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 632.00
356 Steadman (Ralph) An ink drawing depicting two men

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 368.00
357 Steadman (Ralph) An ink drawing depicting two men in armchairs in front of a fire

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 368.00
358 Studdy (George Ernest) You sure it's a Dog-Fish?

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
359 Studdy (George Ernest) Just 'er'

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
360 Shepard (Ernest H.) Water Rat and Sea Rat eating a picnic

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
361 Shepard (Ernest H.) Instructions from the Wicket

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 345.00
362 Shepard (Ernest H.) Cricket on the Sands

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 575.00
363 Shepard (Ernest H.) Missed It

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 460.00
364 Shepard (Ernest H.) The Friend

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 25,300.00
365 Shepard (Ernest H.) Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Pot

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 11,600.00
366 Shepard (Ernest H.) Winnie the Pooh

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 12,650.00
367 Tarrant (Margaret) Sketchbook titled 'Rye Harbour 1913'

August 20-27 1913

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 517.00
368 Tenniel (John) Two fine folio albums containing approximately 282 pencil drawings

GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 29,900.00
369 Tenniel (John) Six porcelain menu cards each with a character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and 'I'hrough the Loohing-Glass painted in ink and watercolour at the lower edge

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 8,625.00
370 Thomson (Hugh) Six ink drawings depicting a huntsman blowing his horn following a pack of hounds

1885 to 1889

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 747.00
371 Thomson (Hugh) My dear Sir Thomas - Fanny can walk

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 460.00
372 Thomson (Hugh) Madame Duval accompanied by Monsieur Du Bois an ink drawing depicting a stout lady and gentleman entering a panneled room

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
373 Thomson (Hugh) Walking away from William Larkins

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 617.00
374 Thomson (Hugh) See

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
375 Thomson (Hugh) A pert young lawyer

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 483.00
376 Thomson (Hugh) An ink and watercolour drawing depicting two men in eighteenth century dress peering round an open doorway at a lady and footman

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
377 Tresilian (Stuart) The Sacred Bullock by Mazo de la Roche

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
378 Vickers (V.C.) A fantastical ink and watercolour drawing depicting birds and seedpods amidst trees along a river

October 1997

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
379 Watts (Arthur) Twenty seven humorous ink drawings including a large illustration of a garden fete

May 25th to July 13th 1928

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
380 Wheeler (Dorothy M.) Two large watercolour drawings to illustrate the two nursery rhymes 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and 'To Market to market to buy a fat pig'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
381 Wheeler (Dorothy M.) Two large watercolour drawings to illustrate the two nursery rhymes 'Jack and Jill' and 'Humpty Dumpty'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
382 Wheeler (Dorothy M.) Two large watercolour drawings to illustrate the two nursery rhymes 'Ring a ring of roses'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
383 Wheeler (Dorothy M.) Two large watercolour drawings to illustrate the two nursery rhymes 'Little Bo Peep' and 'Little Miss Muffett'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
384 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of seventeen calligraphic-prints

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 345.00
385 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of eleven etchings titled Unemployment

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
386 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of seventeen calligraphic prints

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
387 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of nine etchings titled A Norfolk Mill

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
388 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of seventeen calligraphic prints

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
389 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of fifteen etchings titled Unemployment; A Norfolk Mill; Reverie; Evening

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 287.00
390 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of seventeen calligraphic prints

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
391 Wyatt (Leo) A collection of twenty-one etchings of which several are duplicates comprising Constable Country; St James Garlickhythe Wren; Portrait of an Actor; Constable Duck Pond; Sailing Boat; Norfolk Mill; and the bookplate of I. and F.W. Hosken

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
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