Milne is represented by vellum copies of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, various editions of J.K. There is a huge collection of Lewis Carroll material including letters, a large working bibliographical collection of editions of his works, and a good collection of biographies and bibliographies A.A. Children's books range from a fine archive of correspondence from Beatrix Potter to one of her shepherds, Joseph Moscrop, to letters by the Reverend W. There are good books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including a copy of The Ingoldsby Legends with an inscription and a fine watercolour drawing by the artist a copy of Kay Nielsen's Andersen Fairy Tales in the dust jacket, and a selection of books and portfolios with evocative etchings of Scotland and the North by Norman Ackroyd. There is a good selection of Kelmscott and Ashendene Presses being particularly well represented, including a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer. The first session of the sale is devoted to Private Press and Illustrated and Related Drawings and Watercolours. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. From the introduction: "This sale offers an extensive range of printed books, manuscripts and letters, original drawings and printed maps, from the sixteenth Century to proof copies of the 1997 publishing phenomenon, J.K.
Donald Law mathematics travel books, atlases, British Isles, roadbooks, rest of world, geographies, Europe, Russia, Near and Middle East, North America, Central, South America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, falconry natural history.
Among the highlights noted were the following: Private press books, Kelmscott Press, Vale Press, Essex House Press, Eragny Press, Doves Press, Ashendene Press, Nonesuch Press, Golden Cockerel Press, Officina Bodini English illustrated books children's books miniature books juvenilia watercolours continental illustrated books art reference architecture classical civilization early printed books continental literature after 1700 English literature and history 1600-1875 English literature and history after 1875 sporting motoring science and medicine, phrenological collection of Dr. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm, 196 pp in double-column format, plates, ills.
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