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Auction Name
Online: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date
09/11/2025 - 09/11/2025
Sale Number
#1045
Total Lots
298
Sold Lots
270
Lots Sold
90.60%
Unsold Lots
28
Total Sales (GBP)
139,118.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
74,050.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
106,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
80,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
115,750.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
120.19%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
19 Ravilious (Eric)

Original woodblock of engraving of cockerel

[1933]; GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,130.00
235

SlaveryEngraved plate of a plan showing lower deck of a slave ship

[?c.1788] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 4,826.00
265 Curtis (William)

Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London

1777-98 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,318.00
49 Bawden (Edward)

Borough market, from 'Six London Markets'

1967 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
22 Ravilious (Eric).- Hennell (Thomas)

Poems

1936 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,794.00
30 Ravilious (Eric)

The Wood Engravings...

1972 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,159.00
26 Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.)

High Street

1938 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,159.00
76 Bawden (Edward)

Broomfield Church, Somerset,

circa 1978 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
221

Royal BindingBook of Common Prayer (The), engraved title

1669 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
20 Ravilious (Eric)

49th Dinner Double Crown Club Cafe Royal

[1935] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,778.00
15 Ravilious (Eric)

Kynoch Press Note Book 1933

1932 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,651.00
6 Ravilious (Eric).- Furst (Herbert, editor)

The Woodcut: An Annual

1927-30. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,524.00
41 Ravilious (Eric).- Garwood (Tirzah)

Long Live Great Bardfield & love to you all: her Autobiography, 1908-43

2012 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
4 Ravilious (Eric).- Fraser (Ronald)

Flower Phantoms, signed by the author

1926 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
44 Bawden (Edward)

Cattle Market, Braintree, l

1937 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,397.00
17 Ravilious (Eric).- Marlowe (Christopher)

The Famous Tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta

1933 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,397.00
73 Nash (Paul).- Aldington (Richard)

Death of a Hero

1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,270.00
16 Ravilious (Eric).- Shakespeare (William)

Twelfth Night, or, What You Will

1932 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,270.00
3 Ravilious (Eric)

Exhibition of Modern Wood Cuts and Book Decoration

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,270.00
67 Nash (Paul).- M. (G.A.)

Six Satires

[1919] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,206.50

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    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
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    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
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