29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Knight (Laura).
A Book of Drawings, with a foreword by Charles Marriott and Descriptive Notes.
John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1923, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the artist, quarto, twenty plates as called for (colour and monochrome, one plate re-mounted), tissue guards, original cloth-backed boards.
Sold for £550
Estimated at £80 - £120
Bookplate to front pastedown, free endpapers tanned, some light foxing in places, number in pen and artist's name in pencil on reverse of re-mounted plate which is short of fore-edge, covers rubbed and a little marked.
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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