Books & Works on Paper,

to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

184 *Withdrawn*

185 Punch magazine.- Partridge (Bernard, illustrator) Punch magazine.- Partridge (Bernard, illustrator)

Two autograph letters, signed, 1 & 2pp., addressed to Evoe [E. V. Knox], “I’m still forbidden to go out in this cold weather: but I shall be here & ready to do a cartoon”, “Did you get Philip Game’s message?”; with a Life Magazine photo of editors and artists associated with Punch, including E. H. Shepard and Kenneth Bird; all loosely inserted within a copy of Spielmann (M. H.) The History of Punch, original cloth, loss to spine, 4to, 1895.

£80-120

186 Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator) Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator)

Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, first edition, 21 handcoloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson after J. Green (including frontispiece), light offsetting, original boards, a little rubbed, spine frayed with small loss, within straight Morocco 2 parts box, rubbed and scuffed at corners, [Abbey Scenery, 298 (see note to 297); Tooley 422], 4to, R. Ackermann by J. Diggins, 1813.

£300-400

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

187 Sadequain: The Holy Sinner, Limited Edition Akhund (A. H.; F M Said; Z Yusuf, eds.)

Sadequain: The Holy Sinner, First Edition, Limited Edition of 1200, one pull-out illustration with a small tear, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase, folio, Mohatta Palace Museum Karachi in collaboration with Unilever Pakistan, 2003.

***Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the works and life of leading Pakistani artist and poet Sadequain Naqqash (Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi (1930 - 1987), held at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi in 2002-2003. The exhibition contained over two hundred of Sadequain's noncalligraphic works and reflected the artist's existential preoccupations with human suffering underpinned by his famous notion of "mystic figuration." The book includes reproductions of some 400 of Sadequain's creations, supported by an anthology of commentaries by the artist's contemporaries as well as pieces by journalists, fellow artists and critics.

£600-800

188

Illuminated Ornaments selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries, with Descriptions by Sir Frederic Madden, First edition, largepaper issue, title in black and red, additional vignette title-page and 59 plates, engraved or lithographic, hand-coloured and heightened with gold throughout, each plate with leaf of descriptive text, occasional light offsetting, little spotting, contemporary dark blue Morocco, richly gilt tooled outer edge and spine in compartments, a.e.g., rubbed, corners slightly bumped, imperial 4to, William Pickering, 1833.

£600-800

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

189 Tarrant. Little Girl in the Woods, original preliminary drawing. Tarrant (Margaret) Artist/Illustrator.

‘Little Girl in the Woods preliminary pencil sketch by Tarrant, mage 180 x 130mm., mounted, n.p., n.d.

*** Provenance. The original backboard of the frame with antique dealers label of Serena Stapleton Antiques.

£80-120

190 Taschen.- Ai Weiwei Taschen.-

Ai Weiwei, Number 723 from the Collector’s edition, within a total edition of 1100, signed in red ink to title, original pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine, volume wrapped in a Habotai silk scarf (110 cm x 100 cm) based on a detail from Ai’s work Straight, a reference to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, within card box, and original outer packaging and box, folio, Taschen, 2014.

***The first comprehensive monograph on Ai Weiwei’s life and work.

£800-1,200

191 Taschen.- Annie Leibovitz, Collector’s Edition Taschen.Annie Leibovitz,

Collector’s Edition number 2803 from a total edition of 10,000, signed by Leibovitz, hardcover with 8 fold-outs, cover with ‘Keith Haring, New York City, 1986’ variation, with paperback supplement volume, tripod bookstand by Marc Newson, in the original packaging and box, sumo (50 x 69 cm), 26 kg, Taschen, Cologne, 2014.

£1,500-2,000