Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/125
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [1516] WASHBOURNE (Thomas). Poems. Edited with Memorial-Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander B. Grossart. LarcE Paper Copy. 8vo. Original cloth, uncut. Blackburn, Printed for Private Circulation, 1868. £1 158 Only 106 copies printed for the Fuller Worthies’ Library. [1517] WHARTON (Grace and Philip). THe Queens or Society. With illustra- tions by C. A. Doyle and the Brothers Dalziel. First Eprrion. 2 vols., post vo. Half morocco, uncut, t. e.g. London, N.D. ZI I0s [1518] THe Wits aNp Beaux oF Society. With illustrations from draw- ings by H. K. Brown and James Godwin, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. First Epirion. 2 vols., post 8vo. Half morocco, uncut, t.e. g. London, n.v. LI 8s J. A. McNEILL WHISTLER. ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FROM THE DowDESWELL COLLECTION. [1519] COLLECTION OF 15 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS executed in pencil, sepia and wash, comprising portrait studies, views, and decorative subjects, some of them inscribed by Whistler himself. A most interesting Collection, The Drawings in several cases are sketches by Whistler for many of his famous Etchings. One is the interior of a café, drawing in pencil, size 434 by 7%4 in.; another a wash drawing representing the etching “‘ Doorway and Vine,” size 614 by 3% in.; another a figure of a woman in profile to right, very probably ‘‘ Fumette,”” wash drawing, size 714 by 434 in.; another a little sea piece, ‘‘ Nocturne Salute,” draw- ing in sepia, size 314 by 61% in.; another little sea piece, “‘ The Large Pool,” a draw- ing in sepia, size 314 by 4 in. Also large and important drawing “ Holzthrum Wooden Tower.” This drawing depicts a mediaeval building with peasant passing under archway; drawing in pencil, size 14 by 9 in. Another “ The Effigy of a Warrior lying on his Tomb,” with skeleton of a man seen below; above the tomb is an armorial tablet with numerous Coats-of-Arms; drawing in pencil, size 14 by 9 in. “ Heidelberg,” a street scene with figures, drawing in pencil, size 814 by 5%4 in. Also other drawings. The drawings are mounted on sunk mounts and bound in full crushed levant morocco extra, g. e. The Collection, £250
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