Banbery, Fred

i) dust-jacket illustration for Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night, Random House, 1961, ink and watercolour drawing, 320 by 240mm., mounted; ii) dust-jacket illustration for Sara Woods, The Windy Side of the Law, Harper and Row, 1965, ink and watercolour drawing, 213 by 140mm., mounted; iii) approximately 25 preliminary drawings of or relating to Paddington Bear (many for Paddington Bear [Paddington Picture Book 1], Collins, 1972), mostly preliminary pencil drawings, mounted; iv) approximately 195 preliminary and finished portrait drawings of Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Zola, Wilde, Steinbeck, Woolf, Austen etc. and approximately 18 dining scenes (mostly for ed. Wolfe, The Literary Gourmet, Random House, 1962), mostly ink drawings, many mounted; v) approximately 84 scenes from operas (for Simon, A Treasury of Grand Opera, Simon and Schuster, 1965), mostly ink drawings, many mounted; vi) approximately 98 other drawings and sketches, etc., many mounted; vii) approximately 50 printed items or hand-coloured photographs (including some from Kober, Oooh, What You Said!, Simon and Schuster, 1958); viii) 8 volumes from the library of F.E. Banbery, including a 1929 school prize book; ix) container of artists’ materials including Roting "art pen", box of 9 pastels, 5 tubes of gouache, 2 brushes and numerous coloured pencils (qty.)