Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £180 |
HUGHES, Philip (b.1936, illustrator). Elysian Garden. [Spanish: Jardin Eliseo]. Poem by Carmen Boullosa ... Translation by Psiche Hughes. Monterrey, Mexico: Roberto E. Hernandez, 1997. 4to (404 x 345mm). Text in Spanish and English, 6 original coloured lithographed plates by Philip Hughes, each SIGNED AND DATED by the artist, plans, some full-page. Original plain wrappers, original buckram box with suede tie inside and two string ties outside (some staining to the box). NUMBER 41 OF 80 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, THE POET AND THE TRANSLATOR. With 9 other miscellaneous books including Eustace Neville Rolfe's Pompeii Popular and Practical (Naples & London, 1888 [?but 1887], small 4to, folding map at the end, original pebbled boards gilt, rebacked, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "E. H. E. Addington, Christmas 1887, From the Author"), Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (New York, 1895, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in original dark blue decorated buckram gilt), Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (London, 1910, 4to, 34 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, rebound in later buckram gilt with vellum panel illustrated in gilt laid down on the upper cover, NUMBER 125 OF 1,150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST), Art. Goût. Beauté. Feuillets de l' Elégance Féminine (Paris, Janvier 1923, no. 29, 3e. Année, 4to, coloured illustrations, some mounted, original pictorial wrappers, stained), Mona Wilson's The Life of William Blake (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, small folio, plates, original vellum-backed marbled paper boards, ONE OF 1,480 COPIES) and Roger Fry's Flemish Art. A Critical Survey (London, 1927, 4to, plates, original pictorial cloth-backed paper boards by Roger Fry, FIRST EDITION). (10)