Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 298 DICKENS, CHARLES Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club With Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. London, 1837. First edition in book form. Errata uncorrected. xvi, 609, [43 plates] pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in full red levant crushed morocco, elaborately tooled gilt doublures. Top edge gilt. Overall, a near fine, and exceptionally tall, copy of this early title. An Exceptionally Tall Copy. With the Seymour and Buss plates, and with the ‘Phiz’ plates from early steels. First states of most of the points. None of the illustrations are captioned but all are signed. “From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been. firmly established. It was written by Dickens when he was twenty-four and its publication placed the author on a solid foundation fromwhich he never was removed. It is quite probable that only Shakespeare’s Works, the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book, exceed “Pick- wick Papers” in circulation” (Eckel, 17). “Never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!” (Allibone I:500). Pickwick would be the first volume in which Dickens was acknowledged as the author, rather than using his pen name, “Boz.” Gimbel A15. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith, Dickens, I, 3. HBS 67903. € 400 - 600 299 MITCHELL, FLORA (1890 - 1973) Vanishing Dublin With fifty coloured plates and one page of text to each. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Dublin, 1966. First edition. 101 pp. Cloth. A fine copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. Flora Mitchell, 1890-1973, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved with her family to Ireland as a result of the Sioux Indian Rising in the 1890’s. She studied drawing and painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art developing a reputation for her life sketches and her watercolours. After a period of voluntary work in Dublin during the First World War, she went to teach art in Canada but by the end of the 1920’s, she was back in Dublin. In 1935 she began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland, which was her only showcase until the mid-1950’s, when she exhibited with the Dublin Painters’ Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Much of Flora Mitchell’s work encompassed drawings of Dublin land- marks, as well as cityscapes in oils and watercolour paintings, exemplified in her excellent illustrated book, ‘Vanishing Dublin’. She also produced some fine pencil sketches of London buildings. Ex- amples of her works are in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Civic Museum, Dublin and the James Joyce Museum. Loosely inserted is a receipt from Mealy Auctioneers, dated October 5th 1983, at which sale the book cost £200 plus 10% commission. € 250 - 350 300 ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN Fairy Tales Illustrated with sixteen coloured and twenty-four mono plates by Harry Clarke. London, 1930. Cloth with dust jacket Harrap’s prospectus for this work introduced Harry as “a new artist whose work will certainly command extreme admira- tion. Mr. Clarke brings to Hans Andersen an entirely fresh interpretation, and he appeals to the intellectual emotions of art lovers, who will find in his work satisfaction of their craving for new and unconventional treatment of themes which may never be exhausted while the spirit of life exists in art. Mr. Clarke is a craftsman who devotes to each drawing an infinity of pains which is little less than marvellous, and it is difficult to know which to admire most - his fresh concep- tions or his delicate and intricate detail. The latter feature, by the way, has necessitated a very considerable amount of hand-graving upon the colour blocks, and these give, therefore, much more than the usual mechanical reproductions of the artist’s drawings ... In all the book contains forty full-page illustrations and a number of decorative tailpieces, etc. There are sixteen colour plates, in which the colouring is as rich and original as would be expected from an artist whose black line work is as suggestive of riotous colouring as it is of ideas ... The letter-press comprises 24 of the choicest stories of Andersen”. € 200 - 300