Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £150 |
WILCOX, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919). Poems of Passion and Pleasure. London: Gay & Hancock, [1912]. 4to (290 X 230mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece and 19 plates by Dudley Tennant (a few spot spots). Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some staining, front free endpaper browned and spotted, without a dust-jacket, lacks ties and slipcase). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 72 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. With 2 other illustrated books, Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (London, [n.d.], 4to, mounted coloured plates by Frank Reynolds, original red pictorial cloth gilt) and Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (London, 1909, 4to, mounted coloured plates by Warwick Goble, original pictorial cloth gilt, cloth lightly stained, some tissue guards detaching and frayed). (3)