Lot 600
  • 600

NICHOLSON, W. A COLLECTION OF 5 VOLUMES, 1898-1923, (5 VOL.)

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sir William Nicholson, R.A.
  • A collection of five volumes illustrated by William Nicholson
  • Paper
Kipling, R. An Almanac of Twelve Sports. William Heinemann, 1898. 4to, 12 full-page colour plates by Nicholson, 1p. of advertisements at back, original black-stamped cloth-backed pictorial boards, some offsetting (as usual), browning, bumped; Henley, W. E. London Types. William Heinemann, 1898. 4to, 12 full-page colour plates by Nicholson,with an additional leaf with facsimile ms. verse signed W.E.H, 1p. of advertisements at back, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, all edges red, bookseller’s stamp on title-page, some offsetting (as usual), minor spotting, abrasions to upper board, restoration to lower right corner; Davies, W. H. The Hour of Magic and other Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1922. 8vo, original boards with spine and upper cover label, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket, minor spotting; Davies, W. H. True Travellers. A Tramp’s Opera. Jonathan Cape, 1923. Small 4to, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, frontispiece and 3 other plates printed in black and green, original green boards, dust-jacket, minor spotting and browning, dust-jacket with minor chipping; Davies, W. H. True Travellers. A Tramp’s Opera. Jonathan Cape, 1923. Small 4to, frontispiece and 3 other plates printed in black and green, original green boards, minor spotting to front free endpaper, boards with discolouration (5)

Condition

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