Lot 328 , Field, Eugene - Poems of Childhood, coloured title and 8 other plates by Maxfield Parish, gilt pictorial cloth and coloured pictorial e

Field, Eugene - Poems of Childhood, coloured title and 8 other plates by Maxfield Parish, gilt pictorial cloth and coloured pictorial endpapers, roy, 8vo, John Lane 1904; Kipling, Rudyard - A Song of the English, 16 coloured mounted plates and numerous text illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, pictorial cloth, 4to (?1915); together with 5 other illustrated books
Estimate £80-100

Field-cloth sl. marked and lt. tender head of spine, title sl. loose; plts. with captioned guards; (?) the pictorial upper cover of d/w bound-in at end; Kipling- title page v.sl. marked along fore and lwr edges, upper cover v. sl. marked, end paper spotting and slightly elsewhere, contemp. inscription front end paper; Others include Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (illus. J. Willcox Smith), 1905, 12 col.plts. etc., col. pict. cloth, first plt. affixed at gutter by sellotape, inner hinges weak, 'reasonably good' copy; Kipling's Sea and Sussex, 24 coloured and mounted plts. (by Donald Maxwell, gilt clothm, 4 vol (1926). Trifle tired head of spine, lower right hand corners of 3 plt. leaves sl. creased (well below plt. mounts, d/w present, very good and clean copy, contemp. armorial book plt of Rosalie E. Whitehead


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Sold for £110