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36. BeerBoHm, max. original caricature of a full length profile of a lugubrious man in moustache and spectacles with a flat top to his head. [no date]
£3,250 Mounted framed and glazed, original caricature signed “Max”.
an unidentified portrait listed, and illustrated, as no. 1708a in hart-Davis A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm.
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37.Bennett, Charles (author and illustrator). sad history of greedy Jem and all his Brothers, narrated, invented, and Drawn on the Wood by charles h. Bennett. London; G. Routledge & Co. [1858].
£450
large 8vo. original royal blue cloth-backed pictorial boards, stitched as issued, matt yellow endpapers; pp. [16], printed throughout on linen- strengthened stock in woodblock colours; with pictorial title-page and 7 other coloured plates by charles Bennett; externally very good with some dusting to boards, rubbing to edges and small wear to corners; internally cracked at hinges and loose on strings (although holding), front blank with a short closed tear to fore-edge (35m), with one or two light scuff marks and a trace of faint dusting and offsetting, but unusually good with a contemporary inscription dated 1861 to front blank.
First edition thus, issued at one shilling, or eighteen Pence on cloth. a series of cautionary verses with lively illustration showing the physical changes undergone by each child character (greedy Jem; Vain Valentine; truant tom, talkative toby; Positive Peter, crooked christopher; Dainty Dick) to reflect their moral decline. the book is printed by edmund evans at the racquet court Press.
38. Bennett, Charles (author and illustrator). lightsome and the little golden lady. London: Griffith and Farran. 1867. £268
royal 8vo. original chocolate brown grained cloth elaborately panelled in blind to both covers, enclosing, on upper board, a very striking pictorial gilt vignette featuring a ram’s head surrounded by sea creatures, spine lettered gilt, red speckled edges, yellow endpapers; with pictorial title- page, frontispiece and 22 other engraved illustrations; a fine copy, externally in truly exceptional condition, internally also very clean and fresh, with just a little browning to frontispiece tissue-guard.
First edition. a fairytale based on the symbols of the zodiac.
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39. Bennett, Charles (illustrator). Paul de mUsset (author). emily maKePeaCe (translator). Mr. Wind and Madam rain. London: Sampson Low, Sons & Co. 1864.
£248
8vo. original dark green pebble-grain cloth elaborately panelled in blind to both boards enclosing, on the upper cover, a large pictorial gilt vignette, spine decoratively lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, all edges gilt, original yellow endpapers; pp. [vi], 8-112; with a total of 29 wood-engraved images printed as vignettes and full-page plates; a near fine copy preserved in exceptionally clean condition, both internally and externally, with only slight bruising to spine extremities; scarce.
First english edition. Written by the brother of alfred de Musset, the French dramatist, poet and novelist.
40. Bennett, Charles (illustrator). darcy W. tHomPson (author). Fun & earnest; or, rhymes With reason. London; Griffith & Farran. 1865.
£128
8vo. original dark green cloth decoratively blocked in black and gilt to spine and upper cover, lower board blocked in blind, bevelled boards, all edges gilt; pp. [iv] + 80; illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 7 other tipped-in plates alongside pictorial initials and chapter-heading, all by Bennett; externally very clean and bright with minor rubbing to cloth at joints and head and tail of spine; internally generally very clean, with original bookseller’s pictorial label to front pastedown, a trace of light internally thumbing, the final plate expertly reinserted with a narrow (4mm) vertical strip of dust-soiling at fore-edge, but no wear; rather scarce.
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