28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 191
 

191

Carroll (Lewis). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by

Carroll (Lewis). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Twelfth Thousand, London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked, marked - Golden Cockerel Press. The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons. Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George I by L. A. G. Strong, 1st edition, one of 1,000 copies, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. 8vo, original quarter cloth, woodcuts by Eric Ravilious - Hudson (W. H.). Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest. Illustrated by Keith Henderson, 1st edition, London: Duckworth, 1926. 8vo, original green quarter cloth, woodcut plates - and approximately 48 others, including 13 Folio Society with illustrations by notable artists (e.g. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. With water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake, 1977; Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Lithographs by Charles Keeping, 1964; etc.), 10 King Penguins including 2 copies of The Hunting of the Snark ... by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1942), 3 copies of British Art. Six Broadcast Talks by R. M. W. Gleadowe, 1934 (in pictorial boards or wrappers designed by Eric Ravilious), Kate Greenaway, Marigold Garden, c.1900, and more similar (qty: approx. 50)

Sold for £200
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

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