Lot 2077 , Goble, Warwick (illustrator) – 2 works – Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, Edition de Luxe, being one of 260 copies, 4to, 32 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original vell

° Goble, Warwick (illustrator) – 2 works – Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, Edition de Luxe, being one of 260 copies, 4to, 32 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original vellum with pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g., London, Macmillan, 1909; Grace James – Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, Edition de Luxe, being one of 500 copies, 4to, 40 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original vellum with pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g., London, Macmillan, 1910 (2).
£150-250

Condition:
‘Water-Babies’: Provenance: Christopher Burlison, ink gift inscription on f/free e/paper, light spotting to e/papers, finger-marks to initial blank, toning, spotting to vellum, hinges weakened, lacking ties; ‘Green Willow’: Provenance: Edith Craig, ink ownership to initial blank, lacking f/free e/papers, many plates with corner creases and a few with larger creases, marginal loss to one tissue-guard, hinges cracked, spotting to vellum, heavily rubbed spine panel, lacking ties.

Sold for £340