Lot 656

KING, Jessie Marion (1875-1949, illustrator) - The High History of the Holy Graal, London, 1903, large 8vo, 23 plates, original blue pictorial cloth gilt. With Christina Rossetti's Poems (London, [1910], 4to, 36 plates by Florence Harrison, buckram). (2)

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £1,100
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KING, Jessie Marion (1875-1949, illustrator) - The High History of the Holy Graal. Translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903. Large 8vo (220 x 150mm). Frontispiece and 22 plates by Jessie M. King, some printed in red and black, title printed in red and black, ornaments (some very light spotting and staining to frontispiece and title). Original blue pictorial cloth gilt by Jessie M. King, top edges gilt, others uncut (endpapers spotted, lightly rubbed, inner hinges weak, without a dust-jacket). Provenance: "Beaucaire with love from Sebastian Evans" (old inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST TRADE EDITION of the first book illustrated by Jessie M. King. With Christina Rossetti's Poems ... Introduction by Alice Meynell (London, [1910], 4to, 36 mounted coloured plates by Florence Harrison, original cream pictorial buckram gilt, without a dust-jacket, first trade edition thus, A FINE COPY). (2)

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