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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper (at Forum Auctions)
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Auction dates
May 29, 2025 01:00 PM BST
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There are 367 lots within this auction
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Gill (Eric) The Skaters, first state, hand-coloured, inscribed from the artist to Robert Gibbings, …
900 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Eve, number 1 of 50, hand-coloured wood-engraving, signed at foot in pencil, [1926]
0 GBP
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Woman with Balloons, hand-coloured wood-engraving, numbered 3/25 and signed by the …
800 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 5 engravings depicting religious iconography, 4 signed or initialled and …
400 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Woman Bending, wood-engravings in 1st, 2nd and proof states, all signed by the artist, …
600 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (E.Powys) Procreant Hymn, one of 200 copies, this copy with a …
1,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Original woodblock for
4,500 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Gill (Eric) Collection of 62 wood engravings on 36 sheets for
2,200 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, one …
5,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 5 copper-engravings to illustrate
700 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 7 wood-engravings to illustrate
550 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Gill (Eric).- The Woodcut: an Annual, no. 1 only (of 4), one of 75 copies, 1927
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Original carved woodblock depicting a naked man approaching a reclining woman, [1927]
800 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Jones (David).- Chester Play of the Deluge (The), one of 275 copies, with an Autograph Letter …
2,400 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Gill (Eric) An album of c.50 wood-engravings, 13 signed or initialed by the artist, 1928-40
1,200 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 4 engravings depicting nude women amid foliage, each signed by the artist, …
300 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Ecce tu pulchra es, final state (Physick 614), wood-engraving overprinted in blue, …
850 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol. one of 485 copies on …
2,000 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Golden Cockerel Press.- Sheet on vellum from the Golden Cockerel Press 'Canterbury Tales' by …
550 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Jones (David).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of 400 copies …
850 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Gill (Eric) Engravings, one of 10 copies on Japanese vellum, from an edition limited to 480, …
0 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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θ Gill (Eric) Engravings... a Selection, one of 80 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist …
0 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 8 wood-engravings to illustrate Clothes, 7 signed and numbered by the …
800 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Two wood-engravings intended to illustrated Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1930-31
0 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Collection of 36 wood engravings on 26 sheets for
1,500 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Evan …
4,200 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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θ Cranach Press.- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition …
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of 10 wood-engravings illustrating the works of William Shakespeare, on …
850 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Original woodblock for
2,600 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) A group of three wood-engravings to illustrate
480 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Pepler (H.D.C.) The Hand Press, one of 250 copies signed by the author, initialled presentation …
700 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Eve. Ex-Libris for Jacob Weiss, wood-engraving, proof impression initialled by artist, …
450 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Female nude, seated, wood-engraving, signed by the artist, 1937
480 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Original carved woodblock for
800 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Rubbing of an slate paperweight
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Gill (Evan) Bibliography of Eric Gill, first edition, the author's copy with corrections, …
700 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Gill (Eric) Autograph Letter, signed, single page, together with another page with original design …
1,600 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Ashendene Press.- Berners (Dame Juliana) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, one of 150 …
800 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Ashendene Press.- Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) The First [& Second] Part of the History of the …
0 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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θ Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], one of 260 copies on paper, …
1,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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θ Book of Durrow (The): Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis, 2 vol. one of 650 copies, Olten …
950 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Cresset Press.- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., printed on vellum, …
4,200 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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θ Whistler (Rex) Engravings...for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, one of 26 copies with …
850 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Doves Press.- English Bible (The), 5 vol., one of 500 sets on paper, original limp vellum, 1903-05
10,000 GBP
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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θ Doves Press.- Catalogue Raisonné of Books printed and published at the Doves Press 1900-1911, …
1,200 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Essex House Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Flower and the Leaf, one of 165 hand-coloured copies …
650 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Landscape with mountains, acrylic and oil, 1965
0 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Thora, acrylic and oil, 1981.
350 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummer's Fool, one of 60 copies, 1965 & others from the press (6)
900 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (E.Powys) Procreant Hymn, one of 200 copies, bound in crimson …
2,400 GBP
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The), one of 65 specially bound copies with an additional …
3,200 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Napoleon's Memoirs, 2 vol., one of 50 special …
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Golden Cockerel Press.- Dryden (John) Songs and Poems, one of 100 specially bound copies with an …
260 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Gregynog Press.- Lamentations of Jeremiah (The), one of 250 copies, original dark blue morocco, …
800 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Kelmscott Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., one of 250 copies on Flower …
3,800 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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θ Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Earthly Paradise, 8 vol., one of 225 on Apple paper, …
7,500 GBP
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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θ Kelmscott Press.- Syr Ysambrace, one of 350 copies on paper, original holland-backed boards, 1897
850 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note by William Morris on his Aims …
1,200 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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θ Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott …
700 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with …
1,400 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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