Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £70 |
ALLINGHAM, Helen (1848-1926). Happy England .. with Memoir and Descriptions by Marcus B. Huish. London: Adam and Charles Black, "Reissued larger size, November 1909." 4to (222 x 160mm). Half title, half tone portrait of the artist, 81 coloured plates by Helen Allingham (one plate detached, some spotting and staining). Original coloured decorated cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded, inner hinges weak, extremities rubbed). SIGNED by the artist on the half title, and further inscribed on the front free endpaper [?by the artist], "To Mrs J. P. Lees, from Nellie Allingham" [and, in a different hand] "and Henry W. Allingham."