EXLIBRIS FOR AUCTION
ON 14 AUGUST 2020 AT FISAE CONGRESS
Exlibris offered for sale here are not the property of The Bookplate Society but of a number of owners who
are kindly offering this material for sale. Sellers do not have to be a member of an exlibris society or a participant in the FISAE congress. Offers of items for inclusion
should please firstly be agreed with the organisers before being mailed.
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AUCTION ON 14 AUGUST 2020
Page last updated on 13 November 2019
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Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), Dutch graphic artist. Ex Libris A.M.E. van Dishoeck Wood engraving, 1943. Van Dishoeck was a Dutch publisher who knew Escher well, and this print is considered one of the artist's finest small prints. A huge book is the pedestal for a woven basket embellished with the van Dishoeck coat of arms. The basket of fire references an old lighthouse near one of the family's castles in Zeeland. |
| Lot No: 001 |
Estimate: £50 |
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Karl Ritter (1888-1977) |
| Lot No: 002 |
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Karl Ritter (1888-1977) |
| Lot No: 003 |
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William Hogarth FRSA (1697-1764), English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. Classic bookplate for herald painter John Holland, who died in 1760 at his house in Craven Street, off the Strand. |
| Lot No: 004 |
Estimate: £90 |
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Michel Fingesten (1884-1943) |
| Lot No: 005 |
Estimate: £60 |
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Michel Fingesten (1884-1943) |
| Lot No: 006 |
Estimate: £70 |
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Michel Fingesten (1884-1943) |
| Lot No: 007 |
Estimate: £65 |
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William Marshall (fl.1617-1649), seventeenth-century engraver and illustrator. Armorial on unusually large paper for Sir Edward Littleton (1589-1645), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Keeper. |
| Lot No: 008 |
Estimate: £175 |
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George Vertue (1684-1756), engraver and antiquary for Maurice Johnson. Vertue's design for this bookplate is in the Franks Collection at the British Museum. |
| Lot No: 009 |
Estimate: £60 |
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Samuel Wale's classic bookplate for The Rt. Honble. Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, Lady of the Bed chamber to Queen Caroline. |
| Lot No: 010 |
Estimate: £65 |
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Stephen Gooden (1892-1955), for the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. This is the largest size of three sizes. An exceptional piece of copper-engraving. |
| Lot No: 011 |
Estimate: £120 |
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Crest bookplate of the famous journalist, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (1812-1870). |
| Lot No: 012 |
Estimate: £200 |
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Two extra-large bookplates of Charles Mason Remey (1874-1974), architect, author and lecturer of Washington DC. Born in
Burlington, Iowa, his father was a Rear Admiral and his mother the daughter of a Chief Justice. Remey was educated at Cornell University 1893-6 and the Ecole des Beaux Art, Paris, 1896-1903. He was
a prominent but controversial proponent of the Bahai faith. See his Wikipedia biography. |
| Lot No: 013 |
Estimate: £45 |
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Striking design signed AB by famous illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), originally intended for his own use.It was published as
'Bookplate of the Artist' in 50 Drawings. At one time he even proposed it as the 'permanent' picture for the catalogues of his publisher Leonard Smithers, saying that it would make
'a fine and eternal catalogue cover'. It is one of only three bookplates Beardsley is known to have designed (one is illustrated in the first volume of The Yellow Book). Having sold it
in advance in 1896 to Herbert Pollitt, 'my sympathique and amusing collector', he wrote to him in 1897: 'There is one more wonderful bookplate in the world. That makes two. Yours and
another I have just made for a Miss [Olive] Constance.' For more on Pollitt see Herbert Charles Pollitt (1871-1942). |
| Lot No: 014 |
Estimate: £70 |
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Large copper-engraving by John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) for Elizabeth Watson Diamond (1882-1963). She and her husband J. Edouard "Jack" Diamond
were leading collectors of bookplates during the 1930s and 1940s, commissioning many ex-libris in their own names, and they were also proprietors of the Hyacinth Press, a small private press which they operated from their home in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Lot No: 015 |
Estimate: £55 |
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Three fine bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith for Benoit Junod (1983), Iain Bain (1980) and Gordon P Smith (1996). The first two are
wood-engravings, the third one is drawn. |
| Lot No: 016 |
Estimate: £55 |
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Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957, brother of poet W.B.): pictorial of pirate for Madeline Jones; scene with mountains for John Quinn (1870-1924) Irish-American lawyer & bibliophile, of New York, close to the Yeats family (see Wikipedia). (2) |
| Lot No: 017 |
Estimate: £50 |
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EARLY c.1625 EX-LIBRIS of Barnabò of Foligno, Italy. Extremely rare woodcut combining a cow's head with a coat of arms
(Barry of or and azure) and mantling, printed on laid paper measuring approx 20x14cm (with small part of a watermark). Good margins. Below the woodcut are the initials AB in ink. The Barnabò family was
one of the oldest and most important noble families of the city of Foligno (in Umbria, south of Perugia and Assisi), and in the mid-18thC there were four branches of the Barnabòs, one of whom was in 1751
granted the title of Marquis by Pope Benedict XIV, but in bookplate literature neither Achille Bertarelli nor Jacopo Gelli identified the actual owner. A marvellous opportunity to secure this rare
and desirable item. (1) |
| Lot No: 018 |
Estimate: £395 |
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Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941), portrait and landscape painter, also book illustrator (see Wikipedia):
Multi-coloured scene with an elephant, for Morton and Helena Stephenson, maybe dating from the 1920s. Morton Frank Goodwyn Stephenson (born Kensington, London, 1884) and Marion Helena née Deverell (born 1885, also in Kensington), were married in 1916 in Central London. He served 1914-1920 as Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps. (1) |
| Lot No: 019 |
Estimate: £35 |
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Alexandre de Riquer i Ynglada, 7th Count of Casa Dávalos (1856-1920), was a Catalan Spanish designer, illustrator, painter, engraver,
writer and poet. See Wikipedia. A remarkably talented artist, his exlibris work was extensive and produced to a high quality. This large, striking print for himself dates from 1903. (1) |
| Lot No: 020 |
Estimate: £65 |
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Joan Hassall OBE (1906-1988), celebrated wood engraver and book illustrator. See Wikipedia. Seven pictorial bookplates plus two in additional colours for her literary executor, Brian North Lee, who in 2000 published her letters under the title "Dear Joana". The bookplate for Kathleen Finlay Horsman is particularly noteworthy in having required multiple blocks for the various colours. Lee's comprehensive album of Hassall's bookplates was gifted by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (9) |
| Lot No: 021 |
Estimate: £95 |
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| Lot No: 022 |
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| Lot No: 023 |
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Simon Brett (b.1943) has been making wood engravings since the age of 18. His ex-libris are wood-engraved, number more than 130 and have made an important contribution to UK bookplate art. On offer here is an excellent representative selection of his work. (18) |
| Lot No: 024 |
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| Lot No: 027 |
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| Lot No: 030 |
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| Lot No: 032 |
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| Lot No: 033 |
Estimate: £75 |
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| Lot No: 034 |
Estimate: £150 |
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This wood engraving by Mark Severin (#82 in the Rousseau catalogue, dating from 1945) was never used by the celebrated poet Thomas Stearns
Eliot, but it remains a choice and sought-after piece of work by this Belgian artist. (1) |
| Lot No: 035 |
Estimate: £80 |
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Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) created 23 bookplates. These are listed in a booklet published
in 1988, authored by Robert Ansell who describes André Raffalovich's ex-libris as arguably Spare's most memorable design, c.1910, showing his inventive
faculty at its best, depicting a columbine formed from birds and a mask. Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1934), French poet and writer on homosexuality, is best known for his patronage of the arts and for his lifelong relationship with the poet John Gray (see Wikipedia for both). This print was maybe once in a book. (1) |
| Lot No: 036 |
Estimate: £65 |
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Very unusual side-by-side doubly-printed variety on tissue of the medium-sized bookplate in black and red for Queen Victoria, 'Ex Bibliothec
Reg in Castel Windesor VR, royal arms in Garter belt, designed by James West, engraved on wood by C A Ferrier, Lee #152. Some minor blemishes, and a closed tear in bottom right corner. (1) |
| Lot No: 037 |
Estimate: £100 |
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Striking work, unsigned but engraved in 1937 by Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) for King George VI, 'Royal Library Windsor Castle G VI R', Lee #102(b), in excellent condition. (1) |
| Lot No: 038 |
Estimate: £75 |
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Ex Libris Georgii Lubomirski: Single coat armorial with supporters and coronet, the inscription on a garter surrounding. Sgd: RO 1929 J&EB
(Robert Osmond, master engraver working for bookseller J&E Bumpus, London). The Lubomirskis are an old Polish family founded in the sixteenth century by the lord of Wisnicz. It is virtually impossible to
identify the ownership of this plate, for three of the family of the same name lived concurrently: (1) George Alexander (1896-1943) married Juliette Rembielinska; (2) George Raphael Alfred (1887-1976)
married Anna Wilamoska; and (3) George Ignaz (1882-1945) married Anna Lubomirska, of his own kin. (1) |
| Lot No: 039 |
Estimate: £00 |
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Dr Jean Morisot (1899-1967, stomatologist of Paris, created over a hundred bookplates, often with strong erotic flavour. Mostly pen and wash,
reproduced in collotype, these are detailed in Benoit Junod's "Les Ex-Libris Erotiques et Singuliers du Dr Jean Morisot", 2010. This lot comprises a set of four versions of the Leda and Swan design bearing the inscription
"Ex Libris Doc H Dew[ez]", signed "Morisot" (on the edge of the swan's wing), and with books titled "Histoire des religions", "Mythologie" and "Les 32 leçons libérés". These soft-toned prints are
in blue, grey, blue/pink, and another of the blue/pink signed in pencil by the artist.(4) |
| Lot No: 040 |
Estimate: £95 |
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Jean Morisot prints, both unsigned: Ex Libris H de W, "S'il plait a Zeus", in blue, and Ex Libris Ninon (young girl being
distracted by her classmates) in grey. (2) |
| Lot No: 041 |
Estimate: £60 |
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Jean Morisot prints: Ex Libris Dr H Dewez (seated doctor reading, scalpel, bones, books and film projector) in blue, signed "Morisot 53" and
Ex Libris Colette Cambrier (bare-breasted female torso with roses) in colour, signed "5JM5" ie Morisot 1955. (2) |
| Lot No: 042 |
Estimate: £60 |
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Engraved c.1750 by celebrated silversmith Nathaniel Hurd (c.1729-1777) of Boston, Mass. this is printed on thin wove paper, with "A.D. 1569"
replacing "No." at top left. Signed "N.H. Scp". It is probably an early 19thC restrike. It was printed from the copperplate which, from the estate of Eric Martin Wunsch, was sold (together with
one impression) for USD 4,375 on 23 January 2014 at Christie's (Lot 71, Sale 2814, Important American Silver). Francis Dana (1743-1811), jurist and statesman, served as a delegate to the
Continental Congress in 1778 and again in 1784, as American Minister to Russia from 1780-83 and 1785 and as Chief Justice of Massachusetts from 1791-1806. In addition, Dana was a charter member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (1) |
| Lot No: 043 |
Estimate: £65 |
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Dating from about 1730, this fine Jacobean Armorial (F25315) has pairs of eagles and lions to each side of the ornate frame, with a grotesque
face below.The arms are of Norreys instead of Robinson.Its owner may have been the William Robinson, son of William of Gresford, Denbighshire, who matriculated from Jesus College, age 18,
on 13 July 1706. A later owner has defaced this scarce print by multiple lines in ink.(1) |
| Lot No: 044 |
Estimate: £30 |
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