Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Antiquarian Book Auction, 51424, Exeter

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 14, 2024 - May 14, 2024
Page Size: 402 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
49

ART GOUT BEAUTE, Feuillets De L'Elegance Feminine.

1922-23 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
50 VOGEL, Lucien.

GAZETTE DU BON TON Art-Modes & Frivolites

Paris 1913-14 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 693.00
51 FOSTER, Birket.

Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. (engraved by the Brothers Dalziel) with pictures in words by Tom Taylor

London 1863 GBP 160.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
52 FOSTER, Birket.

Brittany A Series of Thirty-Five Sketches by Birket Foster

Surrey 1878 GBP 160.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
53 GIBRAN, Kahlil.

Twenty Drawings... with an Introductory Essay by Alice Raphael, 1st ed.,

New York, 1919 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 163.80
54 GOLDSMITH, Oliver.

She Stoops to Conquer

London n.d. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.20
55 FLINT, William Russell.

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer,

1928 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 277.20
56 JACKSON, A. E.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

London 1915 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 239.40
57 JONES, Owen and Henry Warren (illustrators).

The History of Joseph and his Brethren

no date GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
58 [JONES, Owen] HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel.

The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages; an Account of the Development and Progress of the Art of Illumination..., Illustrated by a Series of Examples..., Executed on Stone and Printed in Colours by Owen Jones,

1849 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
59 JONES, Owen.

The Grammar of Ornament, Day and Son Ltd

London 1856 GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
60 MILLAIS, John Everett, [Collected Illustrations] Millais's Illustrations, London & New York: Alexander Strahan 1866, illus.

half title, title, numerous b & w illusts. thoughout, a.e.g. orig. brown cloth gilt, 4to

GBP 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
61 MILNE, A. A.

The Christopher Robin Birthday Book,

Methuen 1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 819.00
62 MOORE, Thomas.

Paradise and the Peri

London nd [c.1860] GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
63 O'NEILL, Moira (Agnes Shakespear Skrine nee Higginson).

The Elf-Errant, 1st edn.,

1895 GBP 130.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
64 PALMER, Samuel.

An English Version of The Eclogues of Virgil

London 1884 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
65 PARSONS, Jacynth (1911-1992).

Girl with Tortoise, original pen & ink drawing; sight size 125mm x 110mm; WITH THREE FIRST EDITIONS ILLUSTRATED BY PARSONS Anne's Book by Karl Parsons,.

1929 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
66 POGANY, Willy (illustrator).

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

London 1910 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 189.00
67 RACKHAM, Arthur ( Illustrator).

English Fairy Tales Retold by Flora Annie Steel,

1918, GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 403.20
68 RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator).

Comus by John Milton

London [1921] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 176.40
69 RACKHAM, Arthur ... ( Illustrator)

A Wonder Book By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]., 24 Tipped-in colour plates, large 4to, org. full gilt vellum, which is very lightly soiled, LIMITED EDITION OF 600 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 4to

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 327.60
70 ROBINSON, William Heath (Illustrator).

The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, 2 volumes

London 1904 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
71 ROLT, Charles (illustrated).

The Sermon on the Mount. Illuminated by W. & G. Audsley. Illustrated by Charles Rolt. Chromolithographed by W.R. Tymms

London [1861] GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
72 SHAKESPEARE, William.

The Works of William Shakespeare with an introduction by Edward Dowden,

1926 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
73 TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Enoch Arden

London 1866 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
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