Ending 13th Nov, 2024 20:00
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED
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JOSEPH HALLAM HAWKSWORTH (1827-1908) - SKETCHBOOK OF VICTORIAN PENCIL DRAWINGS
Joseph Hallam Hawksworth (1827-1908) - a mid 19th century Victorian sketchbook containing seventy original pencil landscape drawings by Hawksworth. The original sketches depicting forest scenes, landscapes and rivers. All unsigned, with locations around Sheffield identified in pencil including Sudcliffe, Blackhook etc. Bound in full crushed morocco, rebacked at the turn of the 20th century with gilt spine reading Drawings - J. H. Hawksworth 1854, gilt edges. Ink inscription by the artist & dated 1854 to ffep. Pencil inscription to rear endpaper 64 leaves, 71 drawings. Complete with 1897 letter from the curator of the Weston Park Museum (known by the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery until 2006), the letter addressed to the underbidder at Msr. Hugh's Auction Room & detailing the bidding for this item. 8vo.
Sold for £90
Auction: BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED, ending 13th Nov, 2024
Our final specialist Books & Works on Paper sale of the year includes a remarkable fourth edition of Paradise Lost from the library of Master of Revels Charles Killigrew, a beautiful mid 19th century collection of pressed seaweed, an exceptionally scarce first edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and beyond that an impressive, smart and diverse collection of modern first editions, antiquarian titles, ephemera, and a specialist map section.
We invite & look forward to welcoming interested bidders to view on Wednesday 13th November from 10am until 5pm, ahead of the sale finishing from 8pm on the 13th.
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