Lot 146
  • 146

Braby, Dorothea--Sandford, Lettice and others

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Braby, Dorothea--Sandford, Lettice and others
  • Group of Golden Cockerel Press works illustrated by Dorothea Braby, Lettice Sandford, Gwenda Morgan, Mary Groom and other female artists, comprising:
  • ink on paper
Powys, L. The Book of Days, 1937, number 206 of 300 copies, etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis [Pertelote 118]--Lucas, F.L. The Golden Cockerel Greek Anthology, 1937, number 39 of 206 copies, one of 74 on hand-made paper with 4 additional illustrations, illustrations by Lettice Sandford [Pertelote 129]--Ninety-First Psalm, The, 1944, number 36 of 350 copies, one of 50 copies specially bound, wood-engraved illustrations by Dorothea Braby [Cockalorum 160]--Jones, G. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion, 1948, number 282 of 550 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Dorothea Braby [Cockalorum 178]; The Saga of Llywarch the Old, 1955, number 58 of 200 copies, one of 60 specially bound, illustrations by Dorothea Braby [Cock-a-Hoop 200]--Komensky, J.A. The Labyrinth of the World, 1950, number 33 of 370 copies, of which this is one of 70 specially bound, illustrations printed in brown and black by Dorothea Braby [Cock-a-Hoop 186]--Scott, W.S. Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1953, number 19 of 300 copies, one of 60 specially bound signed by the editor and artist, illustrations by Lettice Sandford [Cock-a-Hoop 193]; and 11 others [Chanticleer 93, 107; Pertelote 127, 128, 137, 143; Cockalorum 179; Cock-a-Hoop 200, 205, 206]--various sizes, original bindings (18)

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