Books & Works on Paper
Lots: 251
Featuring several notable collections, including: costume and theatre set designs by Oliver Messel; a trove of early Folio Society publications and limited editions; an archive of detective publications featuring the famous Sexton Blake. An individual gem is the 1828 edition of "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" by Jane Webb (later Jane Loudon). Considered an early feminist novel, her story takes place in a futuristic world of advanced technology and has the distinction of being the first in the English language to feature a reanimated mummy. The sale also features the classic historical nursing text: Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not’. A first edition published in 1860, the work intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Last but not least, a manuscript map of Bermondsey drawn by James Atkinson in 1696. Atkinson had his shop at Cherry Garden Stairs in Rotherhithe.
Lot 193 - § Worsley (John) Original illustration - 'Mole', Wind in the Willows.
Sold for £475
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Lot 194 - § Carl Toms, costume design for Clorinda, from Rossini's La Cenerentola
Estimated at £600 - £800
![Lot 196 - Domeny. Cubist artist. Original 'War' portraits, [1940's]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/220528-0-small.jpg?v=63843609434880)
Lot 196 - § Domeny. Cubist artist. Original 'War' portraits, [1940's]
Sold for £188
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Lot 197 - § Eleanor Abbey, Two costume designs for the film Hungry Hill
Sold for £50
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Lot 199 - § Oliver Messel, ‘A Dive in St. Petersburg’, for the 1949 film The Queen of Spades
Sold for £250
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Lot 200 - § Oliver Messel, A costume design for La Cenerentola
Sold for £250
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Lot 201 - § Oliver Messel, A set design for The Queen of Spades
Sold for £138
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Lot 203 - § Oliver Messel, A surrealist set design for Under the Sycamore Tree, c.1952
Sold for £325
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Lot 206 - § Oliver Messel, Costume design for Ariadne at the Edinburgh Festival, 1950
Sold for £175
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Lot 207 - § Oliver Messel, Lady with a parasol, costume design
Sold for £125
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![Lot 215 - Fougasse [Cyril Kenneth Bird]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/216247-0-small.jpg?v=63843609741540)
Lot 218 - § Max Beerbohm, pen and ink cartoon of John Rothenstein
Sold for £125
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Lot 226 - London Underground, George Sheringham ‘Come to Kew’
Sold for £750
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Lot 230 - Posy Simmonds, ‘I’m leaving you Simon. You disgust me…’
Sold for £225
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Lot 237 - An archive of correspondence relating to the writer Penelope Bennett (b.1932)
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 238 - Davis (John Scarlett) Twelve Heads, from the Original Studies by Rubens
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 239 - Henri Matisse, Cahiers D’Art- Dessins De Matisse, 11 Année
Sold for £1,500
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