Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 490 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 E. R. G. R. Evans

(Signed with original sketch) South With Scott

London and Glasgow [c.1948] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 313.00
26A

A black and white lithograph portrait of Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Naval uniform

London 1913 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
27

(Signed and inscribed) Louis Golding Magnolia Street

London 1932 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 901.44
28 Jean de Bosschere illustrations

Seventeen works

[1938] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 438.20
29 Hugh Thomson decorations

Seventeen works

London 1895 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 313.00
30

(Signed Poetry) Sydney Matthewman Six scarce works

Leeds Christmas 1928 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.56
31 Alberta Vickridge

(Poetry) Five works

London 1926 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.64
32 Charles Guyot and Arthur Rackham (illustrations)

Le Printemps sur la Neige et d'autres Contes du bon vieux temps

Paris 1922 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 475.76
33 Arthur Rackham

Four limpbacks

London [1908] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 726.16
34 Arthur Rackham illustrations

Six works

London 1908 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 250.40
35 Arthur Rackham

(Signed Limited Edition) The Chimes by Charles Dickens

London 1931 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
36 Mary Cholmondeley and Arthur Rackham illustrations

Red Pottage

London [c.1904] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 250.40
37 Arthur Rackham illustrations

(Signed Limited Edition) Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales

London 1917 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 525.84
38 Arthur Rackham

(Signed with an Original Sketch) The Springtide of Life

London [1918] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 751.20
39 Anthony Hope and Arthur Rackham illustrations

The Dolly Dialogues

London 1896 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 225.36
40 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

The Three Norns Winding the Rope of Fate

1911-11-01 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,510.40
41 Jessie M. King (designs)

View Album of Edinburgh and District

Edinburgh [c.1899] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
42 Jessie M. King (designs)

Nature Pictures. A Portfolio of Photographs From Life

London and Glasgow [1908] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 175.28
43 Jessie M. King designs

Five works

T. N. Foulis [c.1907] GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 313.00
44 Jessie M. King designs

Four works

London and Glasgow 1907 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 200.32
45 Jessie M. King designs

Five works

Greenock [1911] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 225.36
46 Jessie M. King

(Important Ephemera) The City of Glasgow

Edinburgh and London 1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 500.80
47 Jessie M. King designs

Rund um Berlin

Berlin [c.1900] GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 313.00
48 Jessie M. King designs

Album von Berlin. Three rare copies

Berlin 1899 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 275.44
48A A. D. Portino

The German Cover Designs of Jessie M. King

2003 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 125.20
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
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