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English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations
15 July 2014 • London
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277 lots
  • Two items relating to the printing of Beardsley’s illustrations, comprising:
    Estimate: 3,500 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • [Four Illustrations to the Works of Edgar Allan Poe]. [Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894-95]
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • The Lysistrata of Aristophanes. London: [Leonard Smithers], 1896
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • The Rape of the Lock... embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard Smithers, 1896
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Two volumes, comprising:
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers. [London:] The First Edition Club, 1937
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine collection of 41 items comprising works illustrated by Beardsley, together with critical and biographical works:
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz, 1953
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Ten Wren Chuches. Editions Alecto, 1970
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • The Good Earth. New York: The John Day Company, 1931
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • An important series of 347 letters and postcards, the great majority autograph and signed ("Sam"), in French, to his close friends, the painters Henri and Josette Hayden
    Estimate: 80,000 – 120,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • The Sign of Four. Spencer Blackett, 1890
    Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED