23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 6
 

6

Craig (Edward Gordon).
A Production: Being Thirty-Two Collotype Plates of Designs Projected or Realised for 'The Pretenders' of Henrik Ibsen and Produced at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen 1926.
Oxford University Press and Humphrey Milford, 1930, numbered limited edition of 105 copies printed on hand-made paper (from a total edition of 605), signed by the author, folio in fours, thirty-two plates (many coloured) as called for, each with captioned guard sheet, top edge gilt, original vellum backed red cloth gilt (cloth a little marked), worn slipcase.

Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024


The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints. 

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