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Beardsley's Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum
POPE, ALEXANDER and AUBREY BEARDSLEY
The Rape of the Lock. A Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos ... Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Number 23 of 25 copies on Japanese vellum. Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, housed in a cloth slipcase and chemise. 10 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 20 cm); title-page printed in red and black, 7 full-page illustrations and two illustrations within the text by Beardsley. Slightly bowed, minor soiling to covers.
One of the most desirable works by Aubrey Beardsley. The nine illustrations are of an almost unrivaled delicacy of handling. Mischievous and extraordinarily decorative, they cemented Beardsley's reputation as one of the most daring artists of the English 1890s. The book is of exceptional rarity in this deluxe edition, in which his designs show to great advantage on the Japanese paper, his characteristically sinuous lines appearing in a rich, lustrous black against the smooth cream parchment. Pope's satirical tale of the Baron snipping an unguarded lock of Belinda's hair is innocuous fare on its face, but is weightily charged in Beardsley's interpretation.
Sold for $7,040
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POPE, ALEXANDER and AUBREY BEARDSLEY
The Rape of the Lock. A Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos ... Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Number 23 of 25 copies on Japanese vellum. Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, housed in a cloth slipcase and chemise. 10 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 20 cm); title-page printed in red and black, 7 full-page illustrations and two illustrations within the text by Beardsley. Slightly bowed, minor soiling to covers.
One of the most desirable works by Aubrey Beardsley. The nine illustrations are of an almost unrivaled delicacy of handling. Mischievous and extraordinarily decorative, they cemented Beardsley's reputation as one of the most daring artists of the English 1890s. The book is of exceptional rarity in this deluxe edition, in which his designs show to great advantage on the Japanese paper, his characteristically sinuous lines appearing in a rich, lustrous black against the smooth cream parchment. Pope's satirical tale of the Baron snipping an unguarded lock of Belinda's hair is innocuous fare on its face, but is weightily charged in Beardsley's interpretation.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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