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Author: Bob Kay

Edward Bawden ‘Mountains’ (1954) £30

Original lithograph, 1st edition 1954, published by Faber and Faber. Intact in booklet, lithograph measures 20cm x 11cm. Booklet intact. Gentle folding. Lithograph can be framed without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber. Conservation mounting of main colour image offered at no additional cost.

Robin Jacques ‘The Winnowing Dream’ (1954) £30

Original lithograph, 1st edition 1954, published by Faber and Faber. Intact in booklet, lithograph measures 20cm x 11cm. Two additional lithographic vignettes. Booklet intact. Lithograph can be framed without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber. Conservation mounting of main colour image offered at no additional cost.

David Jones ‘Gum Trees’ (1930) £45

Original lithograph, printed by Curwen, published by Faber & Gwyer. Additional vignette to front cover. Booklet intact. Very slight ‘ghosting’ to right side of main image due to overlap of illustrated dust wrapper (very typical). Lithograph can be framed without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber. Main image sheet measures 18.4cm x […]

Eric Gill ‘Gloria in Profundis’ (1927) £45

Original lithograph, printed by Curwen, published by Faber & Gwyer. Additional vignette to front cover. Booklet intact. Lithograph can be framed without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber. Main image sheet measures 18.4cm x 12cm.

Edward Bawden ‘Popular Song’ (1927) £45

Original lithograph, printed by Curwen, published by Faber & Gwyer. Additional vignette to front cover. Booklet intact. Lithograph can be framed without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber. Main image sheet measures 18.4cm x 12cm.

John Piper ‘Prometheus’ (1954) £75

Original lithograph, 1st edition 1954, published by Faber and Faber. Intact in booklet, lithograph measures 20cm x 11cm. Two additional lithographic vignettes. Booklet intact. Lithograph mounted without dismantling the soft cover booklet, as intended by Faber.

‘Majorca 5’ £150

Original pencil, estate stamped verso. Image measures 16cm x 21cm. Conservation mounted.

‘Majorca 6’ £125

Original pencil and ink, estate stamped verso. Image measures 15cm x 20cm. Conservation mounted.

‘The Hamlet’ (1920) £125

Wood engraving, unsigned, aside from the signed edition. Block measures 14 x 18cm, plus full borders. Printed on Japon. Conservation mounted.

‘The Weeping Ash’ (1920) £125

Wood engraving, unsigned, a numbered proof (13/30) aside from the signed edition. Inscribed ‘Specimen’ to border. Block measures 14 x 18cm, plus full borders. Printed on Japon. Conservation mounted.

Girl Reading (1917) £150

Signed etching, dated 1917. Plate measures 12.4cm x 7.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Primeval Gods’ £300

The complete set of seven wood engravings used in Primeval Gods by Christopher Sandford, 1934. Printed from the original blocks by David Chambers, owner of Cuckoo Hill Press. Each block measures 6.5cm x 8.3cm plus borders. Conservation mounted.

‘A Song of The Earth Mother’ £60

Wood engraving used as header in Chapter IV of Primeval Gods, 1934. Printed from the original block by David Chambers, owner of Cuckoo Hill Press. Block measures 6.5cm x 8.3cm plus borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Epithalamion’ £60

Wood engraving used as tail in Chapter V of Primeval Gods, 1934. Printed from the original block by David Chambers, owner of Cuckoo Hill Press. Block measures 6.5cm x 8.3cm plus borders. Conservation mounted.

‘A Song of Eternity’ £60

Wood engraving used as header in Chapter V of Primeval Gods, 1934. Printed from the original block by David Chambers, owner of Cuckoo Hill Press. Block measures 6.5cm x 8.3cm plus borders. Conservation mounted.

i. recto

15cm x 10cm. Apollo and Daphne presumably

1.

8cm x 6.5cm. Titled ‘Wessex’ bottom right, implying Thomas Hardy.

2.

8cm x 11.5cm

3.

9.5cm x 6cm

4.

5cm x 11.5cm

5.

7.5cm x 10cm. Titled verso ‘Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister’. Could it be Richard Shirley Smith?

6.

11.5cm x 7.5cm

7.

12cm x 9cm

8.

9.5cm x 10cm

9.

10cm x 7.5cm

10.

16cm x 12.5cm

B.

A beauty! My thoughts were Blair Hughes Stanton, or Lettice Sandford. 17.5cm x 11.5cm. No published image found yet.

a.

All images a to k came in one box. They may be by various artists, but a clue is that some are initialled ‘MP’ in the block, and the dates suggested on the side of the blocks date from the mid 40’s. My thoughts initially was that they were by Margaret Pilkington, but can not […]

b.

7.5cm x 5cm. Initialled MP. Note verso ‘6 proofs’ and pencil signed ‘Mitchell’

c.

4cm x 5cm. Dated 4.4.46

d.

15cm x 10cm. Dated 24.10.45. Initialled MP

e.

6.5cm x 11.5cm

f.

5cm x 7.5cm

g.

5cm x 7.5cm

h.

10cm x 7.5cm. Dated 8.7.45

h.

15cm x 20cm. Initialled MP. dated 31.3.46

i.

10cm x 4.5cm. Dated 8.10.45

j.

12.5cm x 8cm. Initialled MP. 1946? date on side

k.

4.5cm x 9cm

‘Puma’ SOLD

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 7.5cm x 10.2cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Nativity’ SOLD

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 20cm x 15.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Ancient Mariner ; Vespers II’ £175

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 17.5cm x 13.7cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Ancient Mariner : Life-in-death’ £150

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 17.5cm x 13.7cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Ancient Mariner (Headpiece)’ SOLD

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 5cm x 12.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Ancient Mariner (Tailpiece) £100

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 11.3cm x 9cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘The Shepherds’ SOLD

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed in 1996 on hand-made paper by Ian Mortimer OBE. Plate measures 7.7cm x 7.4cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Crucifixion’ SOLD

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 15cm x 12.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘Tenby from Caldy Island’ £250

Wood engraving, printed from the original block. Printed on Japon paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Block measures 10.2cm x 15.3cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

‘The waters compassed about me’ SOLD

Wood engraving, printed from the original block. Printed on Japon paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Block measures 16.1cm x 12.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

LESLIE MOFFAT WARD The Estuary £225

Pencil signed linocut, with additional watercolour. Additional signed with monogram in the block. Image measures 15.5cm x 22cm, plus borders. Conservation mounted.

Die Walküre (1925) £95

Wood engraving, 1st edition 1925, block measures 8cm x 9cm, plus full borders. Conservation mounted

‘Calpe, Spain’ £75

Signed wood engraving, with linocut colouring, printed on Zerkall paper. Block measures 7.5cm x 5cm, plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

STANLEY ANDERSON ‘Sheep Shearing’ (1941) £350

Signed engraving. This was printed in a single edition for the Society of Etchers in Chicago, released in 1942. Includes blind stamp detailing such to bottom border. Plate measures 19cm x 15cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.

Pollard £1450

Signed oil on board, measuring 21cm x 25.5cm, dated 1974. Intriguingly, Steggles returned to watercolour study executed 12th July, 1931 (photocopy included), resulting in a span of 43 years between concept and completion. Thank you to Alan Waltham for his assistance in cataloguing this work. Provenance: Austin Desmond. Framed.

3. Figures (1946) £60

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 10cm x 25cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

6. Figures (1946) £75

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1946. Sheet measures 27cm x 26cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

7. Figures (1946) £60

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1946. Sheet measures 25cm x 19cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

9. Figures (1946) £75

Pencil and ink studies on single sheet. Date 1946. Sheet measures 28cm x 29cm. Mounted. Slight ruckling to sheet at top to to wet ink application. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

IAN RIBBONS ‘BBC Illustration 1’ £125 NOW £50

Ian Ribbons was born in 1924 and trained at the Royal College of Art. He was a visiting lecturer at St. Martin’s School of Art, and also at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He wrote (and illustrated) six books, gave lectures and made an extended tour of the U.S.A. and Canada. Ian was a prolific […]

IAN RIBBONS ‘BBC Illustration 2’ £125 NOW £50

Ian Ribbons was born in 1924 and trained at the Royal College of Art. He was a visiting lecturer at St. Martin’s School of Art, and also at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He wrote (and illustrated) six books, gave lectures and made an extended tour of the U.S.A. and Canada. Ian was a prolific […]

ARCHIBALD ZIEGLER ‘Hampstead’ £450 NOW £200

Archibald Ziegler was a painter, draughtsman and teacher, born in London. Studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts and at the Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein, 1927–30. As well as teaching drawing and painting at St Martin’s School of Art, Ziegler taught art history at Morley College in London, and for the […]