English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations

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Lot 227
  • 227

Jones, David

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  • Jones, David
  • Two wood-engravings, together with two original sketch designs for bookplates and a number of related bookplates, comprising:
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i) ‘The three kings’, wood-engraving, printed intaglio, unnumbered proof, signed and dated, [Cleverdon E130]; ii) ‘The Great British public’, wood-engraving, numbered 14/15, signed and dated, [Cleverdon E151]; iii) Sketch design of bookplate for T.S. and Valerie Eliot, red and blue ink; iv) ‘The certainty of love unchanging: E Libris Thomas Stearns & Esme Valerie Eliot’, bookplate; v) ‘TH. S. Eliot’, bookplate; vi) Sketch designs of bookplate for Edmund Gray, red and black ink; vii) ‘Edmund Gray, E. Coll. Magd., Oxon, Eius Liber’, bookplate; viii) ‘E Libris WHF Shewring’, bookplate featuring ‘St Francis and the Wolf’, copper engraving, unnumbered, [Cleverdon 128]; various sizes, all mounted (8)