Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
KNIGHT, Laura (1877-1970, artist). Laura Knight. A Book of Drawings with a Foreword by Charles Marriott and Descriptive Notes. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. 4to (315 x 255mm). Half title, frontispiece portrait and 20 plates by Laura Knight, including 3 coloured, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original hessian-backed paper boards, printed label on spine (corners worn, quite heavily rubbed and stained, spine label torn with loss, inner hinges weak). Provenance: "October 27th 1942" (date written in pencil on the front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 17 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.