Books and Manuscripts: 19th and 20th Century
Books and Manuscripts: 19th and 20th Century
Lot Closed
December 14, 04:47 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Williamson
Tarka the Otter. [London: Chiswick Press] Privately printed for Subscribers only, 1927
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (245 x 164mm.), ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FOR SUBSCRIBERS, this being copy number 32, inscribed by the author "Henry Williamson for Hubert Shapland" with an original sketch of an owl, English handmade paper, ORIGINAL VELLUM, top edge gilt, others uncut, flat spine with gilt label, minor spotting to endpapers, covers slightly bowed
PROVENANCE:
Hubert Shapland, subscriber, presentation inscription by the author. Presumably this is Hubert R. Shapland, dentist, of The Priory, Barnstaple, Devon