(Decorative Cloth) Sixty seven works Mrs. Gaskell and Evelyn...

Hammer

£380

(Decorative Cloth) Sixty seven works Mrs. Gaskell and Evelyn Paul illustrations. 'Cranford,' original cloth with gilt tooling, inner joint cracked but holding firm, decorative endpapers, bookseller's label Henry Walker Leeds, neat ink owner signature to ffep, colour plates, some light spotting and finger soiling, generally vg, Chapman & Hall, London, [c.1900]; With another 'Cranford', bright full blue cloth with gilt tooled decorations by Talwin Morris; Lewis Marsh and Charles Robinson illustrations. 'Old Time Tales,' pictorial decorative cloth, bookseller's label Herbert Woodcock Huddersfield, ffep has been removed, colour plates and vignettes, a very good copy, Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d; L. E. Tiddeman. 'Kitty Carroll,' decorative cloth, ink presentation inscription to toned ffep, light spotting to fore edge, vg, Blackie and Son, London, [c.1910]; 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.' decorative cloth by Talwin Morris, frontis, vg, Blackie & Son, London, n.d; Jakob and Whilhelm Grimm. 'Grimm's Tales,' chip to decorative cloth, some spotting, frontis, good to vg, Blackie and Son, London, n.d; With sixty one other works, mostly Blackie & Son's, all with decorative cloths, many Alwin Morris designed. (67) A wonderful collection. Provenance From the collection of Colin White (1927–2022) (see lot 1 for more information)