Sir William Russell Flint P.R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W., R.O.I., R.E. (Scottish 1880-1969)
Drawings
£693
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Collins, 1950. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 125 copies signed by the artist and including an original drawing, this copy additionally with an autograph letter signed from Flint concerning the publication of the work, folio (35 x 25cm), original morocco-backed cloth, the original drawing by Sir William Russell Flint being a pencil sketch on wove paper, titled 'Gitana, Granada', signed and dated (1931) lower right, 25 x 20cm, tipped to window mount and hosed in original grey paper wallet, original slipcase. Spine abraded at head and with small hole to head of each joint, spotting to endpapers, card wallet spotted and with closed handling tear to opening, slipcase spotted.
Together with 12 others, children's and illustrated books, including: E. Teriade (editor), Verve, An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, Vol. 1., No. 1, 1937, first edition, folio, original printed wrappers, 4 original lithographs by Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Abraham Rattner and Francisco Bores; Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, c.1905, early edition, 16mo, original boards, gift inscription dated 1905, short crack to foot of front inner hinge, frontispiece loose, a few spots; ibid., The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1904, first edition, 16mo, original boards, contemporary gift inscription pasted to front free endpaper; Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1873, first edition, thirty-third thousand, original cloth, inner hinges cracked; and similar (13)
Footnote
There were 500 further copies of Flint's work, issued with a signed print rather than an original drawing.