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Lot 196
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American 1960-1988), 'Ascent (1983/2017)', 2017, screenprint in colours on 300gm Somerset Satin paper, numbered from an edition 50 in pencil, stamped and signed verso by the administrators of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, published by Flatiron Editions; sheet: 56 x 76cm
Lot 197
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American 1960-1988), 'Leeches (1983/2017)', 2017, screenprint in colours on 300gm Somerset Satin paper, numbered from an edition 50 in pencil, stamped and signed verso by the administrators of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, published by Flatiron Editions; sheet: 56 x 76cm
Lot 198
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American 1960-1988), 'Liberty (1983/2017)', 2017, screenprint in colours on 300gm Somerset Satin paper, numbered from an edition 50 in pencil, stamped and signed verso by the administrators of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, published by Flatiron Editions; sheet: 56 x 76cm
Lot 199
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American 1960-1988), 'Olympic (1983/2017)', 2017, screenprint in colours on 300gm Somerset Satin paper, numbered from an edition 50 in pencil, stamped and signed verso by the administrators of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, published by Flatiron Editions; sheet: 56 x 76cm
Lot 165
Shakespeare (William).- Original Portrait of Shakespeare by an Italian artist, in the possession of Mr. Rawdon Brown at Venice April 27 1851..., oval pencil drawing, on wove paper, ink manuscript title along left margin, manuscript watercolour text under portrait reading:"Scoti Lanza [shake spear] dramer ingli [English playwright] London 21 luglio [July] 1604", 360 x 293mm., 1851.⁂ Manuscript note: "Original Portrait of Shakespeare by an Italian artist, in the possession of Mr Rawdon Brown at Venice April 27 1851 height 29 ½ greatest width 22 ¼ inches this drawing has preserved the likeness & character of the picture admirably. The writing is a facsimile that on the back of the portrait apparently written by the painter." This copy portrait bears a strong resemblance to the Droushout portrait. The original oil painting is now owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a pencil copy similar to the above is in the National Archive showing that there were at least two pencil drawings taken.Rawdon Brown (1806-83), historian and antiquary.
Lot 169
Shackleton (Sir Ernest Henry, Antarctic explorer, 1874-1922) & Princess Iwa (Maori singer).- Autograph Album of cut signatures & letters, cut signatures, including: Ernest Shackleton on British Antarctic Expedition 1907 notepaper; Louis Wain, Arthur Quiller Couch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, H. Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli, Alfred Austin (1835-1913), poet; Jan Kubelik signed postcard; letters including: Princess Iwa (Evaline Skerret, New Zealand contralto, 1890-1947) ALs, signed postcard & signed visiting card; John Hassall (with humorous pen and ink sketch); Marcus Stone, Charles Garvice (1850-1920), writer; William Pett Ridge (1859-1930), novelist and short-story writer; Max Pemberton etc., together c. 50 pieces, most laid down, a few loose, a few ff. loose, some items excised, original cloth, soiled, 4to, 1908-11; and a large folding pencil portrait of Henry Ainley (1879-1945), actor as Cassan [Hassan] in Flecker's play, [1923].
Lot 181
NO RESERVE Mining.- An Act to prevent disputes and controversies concerning Royal Mines, black letter, title with royal arms, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, with final blank, final 2 ff. browned, disbound, Printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1693 § Hopton (William) A conversation on mines &c. between a father and son: to which are added questions and answers to assist candidates to obtain certificates for the management of collieries - A lecture on the atmosphere, its changes and explosive gases, eighth edition, full-page plans, portrait of the author at p.308, wood-engraved illustrations in text, 5pp. advertisements at end, occasional pencil diagrams and marginalia, front free endpapers removed, occasional spotting and staining, hinges split, original cloth, gilt title to upper cover, spine faded, very short split to lower joint, lightly stained, a rare edition, Manchester, Abel Heywood & Son, 1886; and a 20th century work on the mines of Cardiganshire, folio et infra (3)
![Shakespeare (William).- [2 facsimile engraved copies of the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare for the First Folio], 1 sheet w](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/48052fd1-da37-4f79-ae0b-ad4400bef3fd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 211
Shakespeare (William).- [2 facsimile engraved copies of the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare for the First Folio], 1 sheet with small piece torn away from edge, [19th century]; [2 facsimile copies of Ben Jonson's verse "To the Reader" bound opposite the Droeshout portrait], 1 sheet with a few pencil marks, [19th century], all soiled and browned, edges chipped; and another a 17th century title page, folio (5).
Lot 221
Binding.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Poems..., edited by Richard Garnett, wood-engraved frontispiece, frontispiece left margin stained, slightly browned, pencil signature of Sylvia Grenfell on fly-leaf, handsomely bound in contemporary red gilt decorated morocco, green morocco onlays, tooled "Rye 1906" at end, g.e., 8vo, 1880.
Lot 224
Frankenstein.- Gaiety Theatre... Manager: George Edwardes... Frankenstein, printed programme, 8pp., upper and lower covers partially torn along folds, pencil signature on upper cover, 8vo, [1887].⁂ Frankenstein opened at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 24 December 1887, the production was a flop, closing after a week.
Lot 275
Flaxman (John), After. Album of 48 tracings after original drawings by Flaxman, with manuscript half-title page that reads 'A Selection/ from Flaxman's Designs/ from Hesiod', with further later title in the same hand that reads 'Designs omitted/ in the Iliad, Odyssey, & Aeschylus', pencil on tracing paper, each bearing a number and with inscription below, neatly presented on album leaves with Whatman watermarks and indistinct date but probably '1833', various sizes, some scattered spotting and minor handling creases, 19th century calf with marbled boards, spine gilt and inscribed 'Flaxman', corners bumped, spine splitting at head and foot, slightly worn, folio, [1833 or earlier]Provenance:David Twopeny, StockburyEdward Twopeny [inscription to front pastedown]
Lot 287
French agricultural architecture.- Petit (Armand, architect) Projet de Ferme, 5 original architectural designs, including a general plan of the farm, pen and ink over pencil with watercolour on Whatman wove paper, one sheet with watermark date '1838', each sheet signed by the architect, manuscript captions and accompanying text, title loose, some light foxing and browning, original cloth, extremities and joints worn, Seine-et-Oise, folio, 1849.
Lot 33
Linguistics.- Ibn Wahshih (Ahmad bin Abubekr) Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained..., translated by Joseph Hammer[-Purgstall], English and Arabic text, illustrations, pencil annotations, lightly browned, modern half calf, spine gilt with roan labels (one scuffed), printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1806 § Baretti (Joseph) An Introduction to the most useful European Languages, first edition, text in Spanish, French, Italian & English printed in double column, from the library of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Moira with engraved book-label , contemporary calf, red morocco label, a little rubbed, spine chipped at head, T.Davies, 1772 § Chambaud (Louis) Nouveau Dictionnaire François-Anglois & Anglois- François, 2 vol., contemporary calf, rubbed, spines worn, 1805; and another, 4to & 8vo (5)⁂ The first is a curious work claiming that hieroglyphs were deciphered many years before Champollion.
Lot 36
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poems...Modernized, edited by Robert Hengist Horne, first edition, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, Whittaker & Co., 1841 § Skipsey (Joseph) Carols from the Coal-Fields..., first edition, errata slip, original cloth, paper label (chipped), splits to joints, 1886 § Locker (Frederick) London Lyrics, presentation copy from the author to Sir John Simeon inscribed in pencil on half-title, bookplate of Stephen Louis Simeon, upper hinge weak, original cloth, cockled, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1862 § Trollope (Anthony) An Autobiography, 2 vol. in 1, mounted portrait, light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, Edinburgh & London, 1883 § Lamb (Charles) The Life and Works, 12 vol., Edition de Luxe, one of 675 copies, foxing, original blue cloth, gilt, uncut, spines rubbed and faded, 1899-1900, all rubbed; and c.50 others, mostly nineteenth century literature, 8vo & 4to (c.55)⁂ The first contains contributions by Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.
![Proust (Marcel) [Remembrance of Things Past], 12 vol., plates by Philippe Jullian, pencil notes to endpapers, original cloth,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/17cc3f1a-a45a-4cc5-91f6-ad4400bf2543/468x382.jpg)
Lot 40
Proust (Marcel) [Remembrance of Things Past], 12 vol., plates by Philippe Jullian, pencil notes to endpapers, original cloth, decorative dust-jackets designed by Enid Marx, slightly rubbed and soiled, some a little frayed at edges, Chatto & Windus, 1957 § Zweig (Arnold) The Case of Sergeant Grischa, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed and a little frayed at upper edge, 1928 § Capek (Karel) War with the Newts, first English edition, 2 advertisement leaves at end, original cloth, rubbed and soiled, § Balzac (H. de) [The Novels], 22 vol., one of 250 sets (unnumbered), etched plates, original pictorial red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed and stained, Leonard Smithers, 1897-99; and c.25 others on continental literature, 8vo (c.60)
Lot 115
SMITH (PHILIP)D'ARBELOFF (NATALIA) For a Song, LIMITED TO 15 COPIES, this being one of 4 copies in black and brown inks on Rives d'Arches, inscribed in pencil 'This is No. 2/ N. d'Arbeloff/ (Bound by Philip Smith'), 7 etchings in brown and black, the poems etched in white on grey background, bound by Philip Smith in brown goatskin (signed and dated 2002 at rear), sides with pressed relief design of onlaid maril and emulsified maril, open spine with triple red goatskin yokes, the title stamped in central darker red yoke, housed in purple felt pouch, small 4to (168 x 170mm.), NdA Press, 1980--[SMITH (PHILIP)] A Book of Visual and Verbal Contemplations, manuscript in ink, comprising marbled paper leaves inscribed with quotations in the binder's hand, original sculpted brown goatskin with continuous landscape in relief, brown felt pouch, 16mo (108 x 71mm.), [after 1988] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/a995bba8-f393-4ccc-b29f-ad4a00ac92af/468x382.jpg)
Lot 12
FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved decorative title-page to each volume, 8pp. letterpress dedication to Battista Dotto (cropped touching first line of text on each page), 193 engraved plates only, including 189 of costumes (misbound, some unnumbered or numbered erratically), without the engraved dedication to Dotto or any overlays, most with additional ink numeral either in blank border or over original printed numeral, one with crude pencil drawing of a man in the margin, one with small ink annotation, approximately 14 with some light dampstains or toning, one cropped at outer margin not touching image, occasional spot or mark, full page of eighteenth century ink notes written in Spanish on the blank verso of first title and 2 non-costume plates, nineteenth century calf, gilt morocco spine labels, lacks upper cover, lower cover near detached with tape repairs [USTC 828580; Brunet II, 1151; Cicognara 1643, 'rara e copiosa collezione'; Colas I, 1021; Lipperheide Aa39; Vinet 2094, 'recueil fort intéressant, mais très difficile à trouver'], 8vo, [Padua, 1593], sold not subject to returnFootnotes:RARE AND CHARMING SIXTEENTH CENTURY COSTUME BOOK PRESENTED BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES, with only one other copy traced on Rare Book Hub. The majority of the plates depict single figures in costumes from Europe (Moscow, England, Finland, Greece, etc), Turkey, Arabia and the Americas (4, including inhabitants of Virginia), with a series of Venetian carnival costumes, a series of officials of the Holy Roman Empire, a few portraits of Paduans, and 4 views (bull fight, gondola, bird shoot on a lake, and the procession of the Doge). The engravings are based on those in Pietro Bertelli's more common Diversarum nationum habitus (Padua, 1589-96). The plate count called for these parts is variable in the standard bibliographies.Provenance: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), presented by him to Sir Edward Aurelian Ridsdale (1864-1923), with inscription 'Ridsdale, Rottingdean 1896. From Sir E. Burne-Jones - my friend and neighbour'. Ridsdale, from 1906-1910 Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton, lived at Rottingdean, Sussex where from 1880 until his death Burne-Jones also lived for part of the year. In 1893 he painted a portrait of Ridsdale; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 127
ELY (TIMOTHY C.)Missing Diagrams, ORIGINAL ARTIST'S MANUSCRIPT BOOK, 14 hand-made pink paper leaves, illustrated throughout in ink and mixed media with multi-coloured imaginary maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, 'cribriform' glyphs, diagrams, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae, notations and other imagery, signed in pencil by the artist on the title-page, original two-tone pigskin decorated with diagrams and symbols, each cover with central sunken textured panel containing painted particles of soil from Philip Smith's garden and 3 large raised squares with onlaid symbolic shapes, hand-painted endpapers and fly-leaves, housed in linen tray with hand-painted illustration and illustrated cloth slipcase, large 4to (322 x 300mm.), 1989Footnotes:Timothy C. Ely (born 9 February 1949), American painter, graphic artist and master bookbinder, is renowned for creating and binding unique artist's books as multi-sensory objects. Often, as here, they are annotated with his own 'cribriform' glyphs.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 128
ELY (TIMOTHY C.)The Flight into Egypt. The Third Magnitude, ORIGINAL ARTIST'S MANUSCRIPT BOOK, 20 hand-made paper leaves, illustrated in watercolour and mixed media throughout with Egyptian scenes and images, imaginary maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, 'cribriform' glyphs, diagrams, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae, notations and other imagery, signed dated in pencil by the artist on the title-page, original sheep-backed rough textured boards, decorated with onlaid pyramid, figure of Anubis, and other geometrical symbols and objects, fore-edges untrimmed, top and bottom edges marbled, orange painted endpapers, housed in original decorative cloth solander box with wood-effect internal panels, title label on spine, folio (428 x 309mm.), 2009Footnotes:'Probably my best ever work' (Timothy Ely), this volume specially made for Philip Smith.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![Doggett (Sue)[A Book of Symbols], 27 woodblock symbols on Japanese tissue leaves, inscribed 'Printed designed bound by Sue](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/520848dc-db02-4edb-aa03-ad3b00d31e51/468x382.jpg)
Lot 129
Doggett (Sue)[A Book of Symbols], 27 woodblock symbols on Japanese tissue leaves, inscribed 'Printed designed bound by Sue Doggett 1992' on last leaf, original burgundy morocco with onlaid symbols and texturing, gold coloured clip fastener, black cloth solander box, 107 x 107mm., 1992--HADLAC (JIRI) Trak Tat O Manekyneeh, multi-coloured pen and ink calligraphy and drawings, bound in stitched and sculpted leather re-using an old glove, set into a wooden frame on a stand with fastener, 1986--KYLE (HEDI) Alphabet flag book, NUMBER 50 OF 65 COPIES, bound concertina style, opening out to reveal 27 card leaves in 3 rows, each illustrating a letter of the alphabet in colour and on reverse in black and white, final leaf illustrating the whole alphabet signed and dated in pencil, illustrated white boards printed in black, 315 x 165mm., 1990--CINCERA (JAN) Rez Laserem, 48 blank leaves, titled, signed and dated at rear, cream boards with laser cut incision penetrating book block, with laser-burned pebble to be placed on top, typed label 'Story of a Laser cut interrupted by a Pebble', in a folding cardboard box, 1988; OSBORNE (KEVIN) Tropos, one of 100 specially bound and signed copies, rhomboid-shaped book, folding Japanese-style, illustrated throughout in colour, incorporating text, with circular cut-out hole through page block revealing a blue perspex round bead on rear pastedown, green foil-printed red wrappers, slotted into wooden dowl spine, 205 x 170mm., Arlington, Virginia, Osbornbook, 1988; and 2 others by Mary Horstschulz and Ronald King (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A POEM BY FRIEDA HUGHES relating to this copy o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/785c4ecc-90b0-43df-8a87-ad3b00d33926/468x382.jpg)
Lot 134
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A POEM BY FRIEDA HUGHES relating to this copy of the book on front free endpaper, small piece neatly cut away from upper margin of front free endpaper with ink note by Frieda on the half-title [see footnote], pencil annotation ('Mrs. Prouthy') by Ted Hughes in the upper margin of p.5, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (upper fore-corner of upper cover and half of inner flap with blurb torn away, the inside cover illustrated by Frieda) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ONLY NOVEL BY SYLVIA PLATH, WITH AN EVOCATIVE POETIC INSCRIPTION BY HER DAUGHTER FRIEDA.It is annotated with a note and poem by the author's daughter Frieda Hughes, which suggests that this copy at one time had the autograph ownership inscription of Sylvia. On the half-title she has written 'Somewhere there is a square of paper with my mother's signature on it that fits exactly here. FH.', and on the front free endpaper she has written out a copy of her poem 'The Signature'. It begins 'One for you, one for me/The books are being/Divided between us...', with the second stanza reading 'Each book is opened, and there/She has written her name. A mother/For you, a mother for me/And suddenly, a small square/Cut from the page corner where/Her ink had dried'. The poem was published in Hughes' The Stonepicker (Bloodaxe, 2001). Ted Hughes has written 'Mrs Prouthy' at the head of one page, presumably a reference to Olive Prouty, the woman who sponsored Plath at Smith College, and is thought to have been the person on whom the character of Philomena Guinea is based in The Bell Jar.Provenance: ?Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes, one pencil note in his hand; Frieda Hughes, their daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PLATH (SYLVIA)The Bell Jar, ink notes inside lower cover [Tabor A4.a3], Faber, [1966]; idem, first American edition, numerous](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/ac69cd15-c0e9-4837-a272-ad3b00d351ea/468x382.jpg)
Lot 139
PLATH (SYLVIA)The Bell Jar, ink notes inside lower cover [Tabor A4.a3], Faber, [1966]; idem, first American edition, numerous passages marked in margin, a few underlined, notes on lower endpapers [Tabor A4b], Harper & Row, [1971]; The Colossus, several pages cut out (but present), with corrections to the text, lower cover stained and scuffed, Faber, [1972]; Ariel, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket very soiled [Tabor A5b], [1966]; Crossing the Water, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket soiled [Tabor A11b], [1971], New York, Harper & Row--BUNDTZEN (LYNDA K.) Plath's Incarnations. Woman and the Creative Process, several passages marked in pencil or green pen in margins, with a few comments in the margins ('strange affirmation, savage & desperate...'. 'Did she!', 'No', etc.), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1983, ALL ANNOTATED BY OLWYN HUGHES, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and approximately 70 others by, or about or relating to Plath, a few annotations by Olwyn Hughes in three, including the biographies by Anne Stevenson and Linda Wagner-Martin (c.76)Footnotes:A collection of works by, or references about Sylvia Plath, several of which have been annotated by her sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes. The two women only met only six occasions, with the last of these resulting in an argument, for which 'it was in no small measure as self-justification and atonement that she [Olwyn] spent the next 50 years reading Plath, talking about her, loathing the feminists who made a martyr of her, and correcting what she perceived as biographical misreadings of her brother's ill-starred first marriage' (Jonathan Bate, Guardian obituary, 5 January 2016).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 148
BAGNOLD (ENID)The Squire, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'Men build their own lives: but No girl knows her journey - Enid Bagnold', dust-jacket (soiled with small losses at corners), 1938; Two Plays, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'My Own Copy E.J., March 21 [19]51, London' on front free endpaper and on upper cover of dust-jacket, [1951]; The Chalk Garden, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY INSCRIBED 'My first copy. Enid Bagnold, Rottingdean. August 22 - 1956' on front free endpaper, and EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED throughout Act I, a note by her recorded that this copy was 'used for the French translation...', dust-jacket, [1956]; Alice and Thomas and Jane, COPY BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, with ownership inscription 'Colonel A.H. Bagnold, Warren Wood, Shooters Hill, S.E.18' on front free endpaper, pictorial dust-jacket (a few small marginal tears), 1930; The Loved and the Envied, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Mr & Mrs. Sanderson from the Author Enid Bagnold, Jan. 1951', dust-jacket, New York, Doubleday, 1951; Four Plays, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dear Billie with deep gratitude & love from Enid (Have a look at 'Call Me Jacky' - I might be badgering you again if you could stand it)', Boston, Little, Brown, [1970]; Letters to Frank Harris, & Other Friends, LIMITED TO 400 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, this copy marked 'Advance copy 6th May 1980 (for the author)' on the colophon, and with an additional inscription on the title-page to Enid from the printers, John and Rose Randle, 5 plates, slipcase, The Whittington press, [1980]; Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married. By a Lady of Quality, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS in ink and pencil on approximately 10 pages, inscribed 'Corrected Copy for America... Feb. 192[?5], E.J[ones, Bagnold's married name]' on the upper cover, and 'Enid Jones' on front free endpaper, labels on cover age soiled, 1924, unless otherwise stated William Heinemann, 8vo; and 3 others, 2 inscribed by Bagnold, one a paperback edition in French of 'Serena Blandish', limited to 100 copies 'sur Alfa special des Papeteries du Marais', with long inscription to Bagnold ('Lady Jones') from the publisher (11)Footnotes:'NO GIRL KNOWS HER JOURNEY' - The author's copies of some of her own books, all signed, and two of which are annotated in preparation for new editions.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the sale of the remaining contents of North End House, Rottingdean... The Property of Lady Jones, C.B.E. (Miss Enid Bagnold), Christie's, 16 October 1980.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 161
ARDIZZONE (EDWARD)The complete original artwork by Ardizzone for 'The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode' by Eleanor Estes, 28 pen and ink illustrations (including upper cover/spine artwork), captions, chapter and pagination details, and proof annotations and sizing notes in pencil (some blue pencil), one per sheet on thick paper ('Schoellerschamer'); one photocopy sheet of the map, with corrections for text pasted on and proof note in blue pencil; 2 sheets of inked acetate overlay sheets for the colour printing ('Pink' and 'Green') of the cover, sheets 240 x 210mm., [1972]Footnotes:THE COMPLETE ARTWORK BY EDWARD ARDIZZONE FOR THE TUNNEL OF HUGSY GOODE BY ELEANOR ESTES. Ardizzone enjoyed a successful collobaration with the American author Eleanor Estes (1906-1988), a winner of the Newbery Medal, illustrating five of her books, from Pinky Pie (1959) to Hugsy Goode (1972). The lively illustrations of ordinary boys and girls thrust into unlikely adventures are reminiscent of Ardizzone's work for his series of 'Tim' books. One sheet is annotated with an enquiry from Eleanor, 'Should we ask E.A. to do over, or would it mean almost an entire new picture? Or could we change a bit?'.Provenance: Edward Ardizzone, and by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 177
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, first edition in German, translated by Antonie Zimmermann, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author' in brown ink on the half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, light soiling and fingering, small dampstain at margin of of a few leaves, small pencil date '1871' added on title, brown endpapers, publisher's (variant) green pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown, some abrasions and bubbling to sides, hinges cracked [Handbook 71], 8vo, Macmillan, 1869Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN GERMAN OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, inscribed to one of Dodgson's young female readers. The German edition was the first foreign language edition of Alice to appear. 'The reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent' (Madan and Williams).Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 178
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Christmas 1871' in purple ink on the half-title, illustrations by John Tenniel, lacks the final 2 leaves (advertisement and printer's details), tear without loss to pp.29/30, pencil scribble in 2 margin, later red calf gilt, g.e. [Handbook 84], 8vo, Macmillan, 1872 [1871]Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DODGSON IN PURPLE INK - IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION - to one of his young female readers. Although the date on the title-page is 1872 the book was issued in December 1871, Dodgson himself receiving his copy on the 6th of the month. Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 180
DRINKWATER (JOHN)Remaining books from the library of John Drinkwater, including 105 volumes of his own works, either with his ownership inscription (often dated), or a presentation inscription (to his second wife Daisy - sometimes addressed as 'David' - or daughter Penny), with approximately 60 other copies of his works (about 20 signed by Daisy), and 10 books inscribed to him by other authors (including John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy - see footnote), some with additional notes and annotations, a few with loosely inserted letters and photographs, some with Drinkwater's gilt morocco bookplate, others with 'J.D.' stamp, publisher's bindings, several in dust-jackets, variable rubbing or wear, mostly 8vo, a few 4to, [c.1914-1935] (quantity)Footnotes:UPWARDS OF 100 NOVELS, PLAYS, ESSAYS AND WORKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN DRINKWATER, ALL EITHER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, or presentation copies to his wife or daughter, several the dedication copies.Includes: Cotswold Characters (1921), WITH 5 PROOF WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH captioned in pencil, JD noting 'Inserted are proofs of the cuts, inscribed by P.N.'; Abraham Lincoln. A Play (1919), with a tipped-in envelope containing 'LEAVES FROM THE DINNER TABLE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 16th 1864' written by 'Ella Virginia J.P. 1872' with note by JD 'These were given to me when I was in the U.S.A.'; The Collected Poems in 2 vol. (1931), inscribed by JD 'a copy of the large paper edition, specially bound by S. & S. Inserted is a copy of the frontispiece, coloured by Albert Rutherston' [also inscribed 'J.D. from A.R.. Dec. 1923']; Preludes 1921-1922 (1922), LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, inscribed 'No. 3, and my own copy... September 1922; Claud Lovat Fraser (1923), LIMITED TO 45O COPIES, signed by Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston; A Book for Bookmen (1926), ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH AN ALS FROM T.S.WISE (the dedicatee) tipped-in, also another copy with 2 further ALS from Wise ('What a brick you are...'); Charles James Fox (1928), inscribed 'To David, the dearest Lady that I know. This book about Charles, whom must have been a very dear gentleman. With love from her Jonathan, Pepys House, September 1928'; A Man's House (1934), inscribed to his daughter Penny '... this play was produced at Malvern on July 23rd, three days before your fifth birthday...', with jacket and wraparound band; another copy inscribed to his wife 'wishing her luck with our play... Malvern, 23. vii. 34'; Laying the Devil (1933), inscribed 'Daisy darling, thank you for believing in this play, and for helping me by believing in it... Shaftsbury Theatre, 2.VII.33'; Garibaldi (1936), inscribed 'For My David, this first copy of the new play... 6.vi.36'; Robert Burns. A Play (1925), THE DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'Daisy Drinkwater from her Jonathan, New York, November 24th 1925'; More About Me. Poems for a Child (1929), DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'My darling little [Penelope Ann, JD's daughter, printed] from her loving father who made the rhyme, Brampton October 28th 1929'.Books inscribed by their author to Drinkwater include: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, with additional note by Drinkwater 'Given to me by Bennett on the evening that I read 'Robert Burns' to him. J.D.', 1923; John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, 1913; Charles Morgan. Sparkenbroke, 1936; Ramsay Macdonald, At Home and Abroad, 1936; Amelia Defries. Rebirth, the dedication copy, 1928.; John Buchan, The Manor of Elsfield, 1931.Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 212
SCHULZ (CHARLES)Original four-panel Peanuts comic strip, featuring Sally Brown writing a report on Charles Dickens, pen and ink on paper, light blue pencil and spot of white correcting fluid to three letters, signed 'Schulz' far right panel and dated '4-8' in third panel with '1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.' label pasted above, light overall toning, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 150 x 555mm., [1983]Footnotes:The strip depicts Sally Brown, Charlie's little sister, writing a report on Dickens: 'I did not know Charles Dickens personally... If I had known him personally, I would not be here now and would not be writing this report'. In the third panel Sally re-reads her report, in the fourth she tosses the scrumpled up paper over her shoulder.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 217
WOOLF (VIRGINIA)Roger Fry, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, WITH PENCIL CORRECTIONS in an unidentified hand on approximately 24 pages including the title-page, plain brown wrappers, lettered in ink on the spine, frayed at extremities, 8vo, The Hogarth Press, 1940Footnotes:Rare proof copy of the last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death. The pencil corrections mostly relate to punctuation, spelling misprints (such as the addition of the accent to 'Cézanne', the artist Fry championed and introduced to England in his celebrated Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910), but also the important introduction of the words 'A Biography' on the title-page.Provenance: Julian Fry (Roger Fry's son), and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 218
WORLD WAR IPapers of Captain Duncan Warrand (1877-1946) of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, comprising:i) Series of some 72 letters and 8 postcards from Duncan Warrand, the majority to his sister Carrie ('Dearest C', 'D.C.'), three to his brother Redmond ('Dear Redmond'), long, detailed letters written from the trenches and latterly from his billet in Rouen, including one seven-page letter written on Christmas Day 1914, describing the famous truce ('...Later on Wednesday night there was much shouting and singing in the German lines... Last night no sniping took place... The Germans lit fires and just sang on. So some of our sergeants and men went up to their lines returning with boxes of cigars! They have no drink... The officer who spoke to our Sgt was an American German, recalled in the war, who was heartily sick of it. He said they would not fire today... it may be partly due to the thick mist which was surely sent by Providence to give us a peaceful Xmas... Our opponents are Saxons and Bavarians and have so far proved themselves gentlemen. About 11 o'clock this morning I went outside the lines and we were all busy mending wire entanglements... We were right out in the field and could see the Germans walking about just as we were... And how lovely it was this morning! The star in the East so bright & clear... picked a bit of ivy... off a tree to commemorate this extraordinary Xmas of peace in war... At this point Sgt Smith looked in to say that a large number of Germans were walking about on our left and talking freely with our men and what was to be done... Tall men in grey coats fraternising with the men... what Bishops & Clergy could not do, the troops have done for themselves...'); other letters much concerned with asking for supplies ('...Please send me a box of cigarettes as the ones here are 'orrid... 'Bromo'!... some soup tablets for dissolving in hot water... shirts, khaki hosetops, cardigans... safety matches... shortbread, plum pudding etc... everything to be packed in oiled canvas... candles are difficult to come by... Colgate toothpaste... I wonder if mince pies would travel in a tin box?... a bottle of Worcester Sauce...'); reporting on troop movements as far as the censor allows ('...seems no harm in saying we are now in Belgium and not far from (2 miles south) of Messines...') and on 18 December 1914 includes a drawing of their position ('...without mentioning any names...'); with vivid descriptions of the horrors of war ('...continued action throughout the night... The trenches are awful, knee deep in mud... higher up the road there is destruction on all sides, houses in ruin, large shell holes and broken trees... I saw a hand and arm today just outside, who knows what unfortunate man it belonged to...'); the constant threat of being fired upon ('...planted shells all around us... They made a horrid whizzy noise when they really mean business... One falling bullet just grazed my ear yesterday...'); conditions in the trenches ('...It has rained incessantly... the trenches are ghastly... this place is called 'The Piggeries'... we are nearly all crawling – it's disgusting but a fact...'); news of mutual friends ('...I hear Patrick Grant was shot in the jaw...'), family news and talk of home ('...I wish the dogs could come out here...'), suggesting '...you might keep these rotten letters... my collection of letters to you are the best diary I can keep...'; the majority with envelopes, c.230pp., dust-staining, some small tears and other signs of wear, mostly 8vo (210 x 134mm.), 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, British Expeditionary Force, Grand Hôtel de la Poste, Rouen, 6 January 1914 to 20 January 1917 ii) Five pocket diaries 1914-1918, containing intermittent entries in pen and ink on the weather and various engagements, accounts and other notes (2 April 1917 noting 'Brigadeer General F.J. de Gex Base Cdnt has died suddenly of heart failure while sitting in the lounge after lunch at the Hotel des Postes. A very good man.'; 26 March 1918 'The great German attack causes anxiety'; 11 November 1918 'Guns fired to announce armistice signed. Crowds begin at once... have to walk through Trafalgar Square. Pouring rain. Cheerful crowds...'), calf, worn, four c.150 x 95mm., one 100 x 70mm.; with another notebook including lists and brief entries for 11 August to 18 November 1914 regarding training, drills etc. iii) Various papers including: hand drawn and annotated map of the trenches south of the river Douve, depicting troop positions, annotated 'Issued in Trenches/ 1914. DW', purple, red and blue pencil, 200 x 320mm.; carbon copy of 'Standing Order re Trenches', 5 pages, lined paper torn from notebook, 8vo (196 x 145mm.), dated 23 January 1915; with various ephemera such as photographs including one of his sister Carrie, mimeographed concert programmes 1917-18, trench whistle engraved with Aldershot Stores/Aldershot/Patent on original? cord; two printed folding maps, linen backed, one of Belgium, depicting the area around Ypres, the other of St Yves with trench positions marked as of 14 November 1915, (440 x 575mm.), in an envelope annotated 'This is not the map I had in the trenches, but shows very clearly the position we held at Seaforth Farm', etc.Footnotes:'THIS EXTRAORDINARY XMAS OF PEACE IN WAR'.The men of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders were engaged in several important actions on the Western Front including the Battle of Messines in 1914, the second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and Passchendaele in 1917. These letters illustrate one soldier's experience in the trenches during 1914 into 1915 including the famous Christmas Truce of that year. They paint an evocative picture: '...On Wednesday we were shelled by 'Little Willie', a most elusive and persistent piece of small artillery... Then they sent about 25 large howitzer shells right over... a big hole in the ground about the size of a large dog basket... They are at it now, like continuous thunderclaps... The officers and men's dugouts are just little caves made into the sides of the trenches about 6ft by 5ft... The floor is covered in deep straw... One can see the Germans now and again moving about in their trenches at dawn and dusk. They snipe us and we snipe them... I have not changed my socks since Tuesday or had my shirt off... I hope they may run short of shells soon... When this poor country will recover goodness knows... I feel like a rabbit going to ground by day and walking about at night... Yesterday (17th) we were ordered to fire at the trenches ahead... By afternoon their guns replied... The noise was deafening... We lost only 3 men, all by rifle fire... I was plastered in mud from head to foot... We are standing by...'.Warrand returned to Rouen in the spring of 1915 to take up the duties of a staff officer, billeted in the Grand Hôtel de la Poste and later with a French widow and her family. Part of his duties involved sorting out the personal effects of those killed in action – in one of his final letters he reflects '...I often wonder if anything matters: foolish young souls pass through here full of spirits & then their belongings come back a few days afterwards – white label with blue stripe & that means they have done with life here...'. This collection has been retained in the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 230
BINDINGRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, decorative title and text borders throughout, mounted colour plates, finely bound in dark purple inlaid morocco [by 'Carter'], upper cover elaborately panelled with all-over floral design of multi-coloured inlaid leather, lower cover with repeated outer borders enclosing central undecorated purple morocco panel, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, the others with floral inlaid leather design, morocco turn-ins, with an original pencil sketch for the binding inserted, small 8vo (162 x 120mm.), George G. Harrap, [c.1910]Footnotes:A loosely inserted typed note states that the binding is by Carter, who was the binder of some of the miniature books in the Library of the Queen's Doll's House. These were mostly supplied by the likes of Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, for whom Carter might have worked.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 231
BLAKE (WILLIAM)Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience, 2 parts in 1 vol., WILLIAM MUIR'S PROOF COPY of the facsimile edition published for him by Quaritch, 54 lithographed plates each hand-coloured by Muir, several with trial tracings pasted in margins, Muir's manuscript notes, 2 autograph letters signed by Bernard Quaritch to Muir, Quaritch's 4-page 1888 prospectus for works by Blake and Muir, and other ephemera bound in, original front part wrappers with gilt titles in manuscript, and marked in pencil 'Mr Muir's Master Copy', bound into contemporary limp boards with blue paper spine and title label, preserved in cloth chemise and crushed blue half morocco slipcase with gilt panelled spine, 4to, 1885Footnotes:William Muir's 'master copy' of the hand-coloured facsimile of the Beckford copy, which was published in an edition of 100 by Quaritch, with associated material bound in.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 233
CHELONIIDAE PRESSBLOCK (LAURIE, compiler) An Odd Bestiary; or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals.... Arranged as an Abecedary. Designed and Illustrated by Alan James Robinson, NUMBER XLV of 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional suite of the 52 illustrations by Alan James Robinson, each signed in pencil, the alphabet series of 26 with a calligraphic letter in red ink added by Betse Curtis (these also signed by her in pencil), from an edition limited to 300 copies, 26 wood-engravings and 26 smaller initial linecuts, original red morocco by David Bourbeau at Thistle Bindery, upper cover with blind-ruled panel enclosing a turtle vignette lettered 'ABC', the additional suite loose in red morocco-backed linen chemise and housed with text in matching solander box, folio (343 x 250mm.), Easthampton, Cheloniidae Press, 1982This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 25
PHOTOGRAPHYHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) AND ROBERT ADAMSON. Collection of 49 portraits, groups and landscapes (2) by Hill and Adamson printed by Jessie Bertram, carbon prints, mounted on card (recto only), within border ruled in brown ink, many titled and numbered in pencil below, several with pencil annotations in a later hand on verso, a few with light spotting to mounts (one mount toned), housed in a contemporary wooden box with hinged opening front panel and lid, printed paper label pasted inside lid 'J. Bertram, Platinotype and Carbon printer, 148 Rose Street, Edinburgh', the images approximately 205 x 160mm.), the card mounts approximately 995 x 265mm., [1840s, but printed later]Footnotes:A fine group of carbon prints from the original negatives of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's celebrated portraits of Scottish women (including Newhaven groups), men and children, mostly taken between 1843 and 1847.These photographic carbon prints were printed by Edinburgh photographer Jessie Bertram (1881–1954) from Hill and Adamson's original negatives. Selections of her works were issued by Andrew Elliot in 1916. They are held in a wooden box, with Bertram's printed label attached. Found with the box is a passport photograph of a middle-aged woman, signed 'Jessie Bertram' on the verso and assumed to be her.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 251
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DAVID JONESThe Chester Play of the Deluge. Edited by J. Isaacs, with Engravings on Wood by David Jones, number 271 of 275 copies, this with an additional SET OF PROOF WOODCUTS, EACH SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST in pencil, on Japan paper, loosely window mounted, the book with 10 large wood-engravings, untrimmed in original buckram, slight dampstaining to covers, housed along with the mounted proofs in a single custom-made red cloth solander box, book 315 x 242mm., proofs c.320 x 260mm. (window 182 x 152mm.), box 362 x 300mm., Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927Footnotes:WITH A COMPLETE SET OF SIGNED PROOFS FOR DAVID JONES'S FINEST WORK AS A WOOD ENGRAVER.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 263
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - MARK SEVERINHomeric Hymn to Aphrodite. A New Translation by F.L.. Lucas... with Ten Engravings by Mark Severin, NUMBER 3 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an edition limited to 750, title printed in red and black, text in English and greek, wood-engraved frontispiece, title, 10 illustrations and press-device by Mark Severin, Henry Sothern label at on front paste-down and pencil description on rear free endpaper, some light browning of flyleaves, untrimmed in original crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, sides with gilt designs after Severin, spine lettered in gilt with 2 raised bands and small cockerels, morocco turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., a little dark staining to covers but still fine, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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