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

138 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 387 DOBSON, AUSTIN Proverbs in Porcelain To which is added “Au Revoir” A Dramatic Vignette Published by [Ballantyne Press for] Kegan Paul,Trench,Trubner & Co, London, 1893. With twenty-five illustrations by Bernard Partridge. 110, [6] pp. Burgundy red cloth, rich gilt design to upper cover. All edges gilt. Fine and rare. € 100 - 200 388 ELIOT, T. S Murder in the Cathedral London, 1965. vii, [1], 72 pp. Red cloth. A fine copy in dust jacket with a couple of small nicks. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (1888-1965), was one of the twen- tieth century’s major poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport. He was a man of fastidious taste whose later work filled the smart theatres. A man of contradictions and of fine achieve- ments, a literary giant whose work links a long tradition with a new urgency, technique and concern. Out of many dramatic works perhaps his most famous achievement was ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, the story of the Martyrdom of Thomas A. Beck- et, the Archbishop of Canterbury by the English King Henry II € 50 - 100 389 KIPLING, RUDYARD. Poems 1886 - 1929 Volume I. Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads, The Seven Seas. London, Macmillan, 1929. Volume I only. Dark red morocco, rubbed. Gilt dentelles. Limited edition of 525 sets. Signed by Rudyard Kipling. Top edges gilt, others uncut. € 100 - 200