REYNOLDS, Frank (1876-1953, illustrator) - [Charles DICKENS (1812-70]. Mr Pickwick [Front cover:] Pages from The Pickwick Papers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. 4to (312 x 245mm). Half title, 25 mounted coloured plates by Frank Reynolds. Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (lacks ties). Provenance: Cecily Mary Severne (bookplate); Amanda Caroline Severne (bookplate). NUMBER 61 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 6 other very miscellaneous books including Frances Christina Baldwyn Childe's Cleobury Mortimer ... Reprinted from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological and Natural History Society, 1878. Only Twenty-Five copies printed (Shrewbsury, [n.d.], original green cloth, the author's copy, with her bookplate, and annotated in her hand for a new edition, with relevant autograph letters and a sketch loosely-inserted), Helen Gray Cone's Baby Sweethearts. New Illustrations in Colors and in Outline by Maud Humphrey (New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1890, 4to, chromolithographed plates, original coloured pictorial boards, rather worn), Francis Thompson's The Collected Poetry (London, 1913, original hessian-backed boards, stained, one of 2,500 copies of the "Royal Octavo Edition", inscribed "Cecily Severne from Henry Thompson [?a relation of the author], Bath, Feb. 7th, 1918"), and a manuscript book of recipes [?late 18th-century/early 19th-century], bound in vellum. (7)
Provenance: Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer. For
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