Bonhams: Deeds Not Words. Women's Suffrage Part II, 32103, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 12, 2026 - March 12, 2026
Page Size: 49 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ELIZA SCHOFIELD

Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1908]

1908 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,536.00
2 EMMELINE PANKHURST

Temporary Discharge Certificate for Emmeline Pankhurst, signed and dated May 1913

1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
4

Mrs Drummond will Speak at The Temperance Hall', Saturday 21 March 1914

1914 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,840.00
5

The Trial of the Suffragette Leaders, The Woman's Press, [1909]

[1909] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
6 HAMILTON (CICELY)

Beware! A Warning to Suffragists..., FIRST EDITION, Artists' Suffrage League, [c.1910]

[c.1910] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
7 Edited by Ethel Hill and Olga Fenton Shafer,

Great Suffragists- and Why. Modern Makers of History...

[1909] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
8 GORDON (HELEN)

The Prisoner: a Sketch, Letchworth,

1911 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 832.00
9 LYTTON (CONSTANCE)

Autograph article on her conversion to the suffrage cause, [c.1908]

[c.1908] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,664.00
10 LYTTON (CONSTANCE)

Autograph working manuscript account of her imprisonment in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, 1910

1910 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
11 LYTTON (CONSTANCE)

Papers from the collection of Constance Lytton, [c.1908-1910]

[c.1908-1910] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
12 LYTTON (CONSTANCE) and Jane Warton

Prisons & Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster, FIRST EDITION,

1914 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 640.00
21

A collection of approximately 70 printed handbills and leaflets, [early twentieth-century]

[early twentieth-century] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,048.00
22

Rare pamphlets from the Mary Phillips collection of suffrage material, mostly undated

undated GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
23

Three posters advertising WSPU events, [1908, 1910, 1915]

[1908, 1910, 1915] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 332.80
25 Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Votes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, vol. 1-4 [nos. 1-186], October 1907-September 1911

1907-1911 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,176.00
26 Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Votes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, incomplete run of 91 loose issues, 12 April 1912-2 October 1914

1912-1914 GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
27 Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Votes for Women. Edited by Federick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, 2 vols, 1908-1910

1908-1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 537.60
28

Women's Franchise. A Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1908-1909; The Common Cause. The Organ of the Women's Movement for Reform, 1909-1910

1908-1909; 1909-1910 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,088.00
29 PANKHURST (SYLVIA)

Autograph manuscript of an article on Communism, [c.1922]

[c.1922] GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
30 PANKHURST (SYLVIA)

Typed letter signed to Lenin for publication, July 1920; and associated material

1920 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 704.00
33 PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)

Two autograph letters signed to Walter Long MP, September 1909 and July 1910

1909 and 1910 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,432.00
34 PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)

Autograph letter signed to the Editor of the Daily Mail, 1913, with a telegram

1913 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,048.00
36 DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)

In Memoriam. Miss Emily Wilding Davison, programme for her memorial service, 14 June 1913

1913 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 384.00
49

Collection of over 80 photographs, [c.1908-1913]

[c.1908-1913] GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,040.00
50 PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL) AND THE WSPU

Group of five portrait photographs, four signed

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 704.00
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.