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First edition; 4to, (262 x 200 mm); number 297 of 535 copies; hand-coloured pochoir plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, comprising 8 full-page drawings and 1 title-page vignette, prelims spotted and browned; original dark brown cloth, leaves uncut, spine and boards slightly sunned, extremities rubbed.
£300 -
Watercolour and gouache on vellum.
39.2 x 31.2 cm
Framed in perspex boxes: 39.5cm by 47.5cm by 5.5cm.£9,750 -
Stipple-engraved plate of Bananas printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 42.5cm by 62cm.
£4,500 -
Group of nine stipple-engraved plates of Amaryllis, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.3 cm by 61.8 cm.
£30,000 -
Set of three stipple-engraved plates of Pineapple and plants, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.5 x 62 cm.
£10,000 -
Watercolour over traces of black chalk on vellum, within gold framing lines; signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: P. J. Redouté.; 385 x 270 mm. (15 1/4 x 10 5/8 in).
£50,000 -
First Stockdale edition and the first edition to be illustrated by Thomas Stothard, 2 volumes; large 8vo; 14 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard by Medland, author portrait prior to the Life of Defoe, contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, boards with wide border of gilt fillets and roll tools, spine compartments with floral design made up of pointillé tools, green morocco title labels and volume numbers directly lettered, gilt turn-ins and edges, title-page and frontispiece to vol. I with small burn repair to each in outer margin, occasional spotting or light browning, without the list of subscribers, board edges lightly rubbed, a few minor ink spots on covers of vol. I, otherwise a very good set; 389; 456pp.
£3,800 -
Pencil and watercolour on vellum, 21 x 15.8 cm, signed and dated at the lower right, sometime laid-down on paper, framed and glazed.
£20,000 -
Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, very good condition, strong colour, trimmed to the plate mark .
£1,875 -
Stipple engraving, part printed in colours and finished by hand, first edition, trimmed to just outside of platemark, but good colour.
£1,750