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(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
[Preparatory sketches]. 1900
£375
Original preparatory sketches, signed by the artist, showing: a hand holding a wine glass, a sprig of holly, and a pendent.
Original pen and ink illustration on card (181 × 233 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins, crease to top right corner. In very good condition. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
Tailpiece to Holly Tree. Third Branch. 1900
£375
Original illustration, signed by the artist, for the tailpiece, depicting the protagonist and his love Angela reunited, with a cherub entwining them both in a sash.
Original pen and ink illustration on card (301 × 257 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins. In excellent condition. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
The Seven Poor Travellers, Chapter I. In the old City of Rochester. 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the heading of chapter one. The scene depicted shows the protagonist first arriving at the Watts Charity.
Original pen and ink illustration on card (278 × 325 mm), mounted. Some faint marks, with two small closed tears to upper left corner, and a small chip to lower... Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
Third Branch. The Bill. 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the chapter heading of the third and final part of Dickens's story. The scene depicted shows the protagonist meeting his friend...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (311 × 283 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins. In excellent condition. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
The Holly Tree & The Seven Poor Travellers. By Charles Dickens. 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the frontispiece. Includes, at the bottom, Brock's note to the printer, "I would suggest that the letters between pencil crosses...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (284 × 221 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins, with some faint marks by the artist near the titles. In excellent... Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
The Holly-Tree. First Branch. Myself. 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the heading of the first chapter.
Original pen and ink illustration on card (264 × 345 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins, top edge faintly toned. In excellent condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Goethe. c. 1965
£350
Portrait of the author as an old man, perhaps on the occasion of the 1965 reissue of G. H. Lewes's Life of Goethe.
Sheet size: 152 × 177 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Dean Swift. c. 1965
£350
Jonathan Swift seated at his desk with quill in hand, surrounded by jeering, gesticulating miniature figures.
Sheet size: 152 × 177 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Goethe. c. 1965
£350
Portrait of the author as a young man, perhaps on the occasion of the 1965 reissue of G. H. Lewes's Life of Goethe.
Sheet size: 161 × 175 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Flaubert. c. 1968
£350
The French novelist Gustave Flaubert, hat in hand, flees from a wailing old widow, presumably his mother with whom he lived most of his adult life.
Sheet size: 163 × 184 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BEERBOHM, Max.
Things New and Old. 1923
£350
First Edition, First Impression, Limited Issue. One of 380 numbered copies signed by the author and containing a separate signed print by him in a pocket at the end.
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. All edges rough gilt. Illustrated throughout with full colour tipped-in plates by Beerbohm. Some... Read more
POWYS, T. F.
Uncle Dottery. A Christmas Story. With two wood-engravings by Eric Gill. 1930
£350
Limited edition of 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. This copy is one of 50, bound in quarter vellum with an envelope pasted at back containing two extra plates.
Slim octavo (205 mm × 130 mm). Original quarter vellum, green boards, titles to spine gilt. Light partial toning to endpapers and half-title, spine slightly... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Byron. c. 1966
£350
A noticeably supercilious Lord Byron.
Sheet size: 165 × 112 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Robert Browning. c. 1960
£350
Sheet size: 151 × 171 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph.
Sheet size: 151 × 171 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Hippies. c. 1967
£350
Three men in front of a Moorish window: a middle-aged man in long hair and hippy clothes holding the back of a chair; a younger unsmiling man with cropped hair, sunglasses, medallion...
Sheet size: 163 × 191 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Well, after all, Picasso had his blue period too." 1959
£350
Two pedestrians read billboards, one noting "John Osborne 'saddened' by Paul Slickey notices", the other "Picasso Painting sold for £55,000". John Osborne's The World of Paul...
Sheet size: 191 × 140 mm. Pen and ink and blue crayon on wove paper. Small overslip correcting wording on the Picasso billboard. Stamped on verso for publication... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I don't agree. You'd be awfully tired of a coronation every week." 1953
£350
Sheet size: 209 × 247 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper.
Sheet size: 209 × 247 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Frankly, I feel more hopeful about Agreement in the Ascot Stakes than in Geneva." 1959
£350
The Geneva Conference of Foreign Ministers, begun on 10 May 1959, attempted to find new solutions to the problems of Cold War diplomacy, though not much was achieved.
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 16 June 1959. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"And you're not one of Noel Coward's ballet guardsmen, remember." "And we don't want any of that 'Up, Guards, and at 'em' stuff around here!" 1959
£350
A cartoon with two variant captions. Noël Coward had composed London Morning for the London Festival Ballet.
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink and blue crayon on wove paper. Stamped for publication in the Daily Mail, 4 Aug 1959. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Manouche." c. 1960
£350
A tough-looking French gypsy couple, both smoking. Manouche is one term used for the Gypsy jazz (or "Gypsy Swing") idiom popularized by Django Reinhardt.
Sheet size: 165 × 194 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"No, dear, you don't wink in Bach, only in Chopin." 1959
£350
The libel case brought by Liberace against the Daily Mirror, whose columnist Cassandra had described the flamboyant pianist as "a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling,...
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 10 June 1959. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Anthony Trollope. c. 1961
£350
A head and shoulders portrait of the novelist Anthony Trollope.
Sheet size: 151 × 177 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Marked for publication in the Sunday Telegraph books section (pencil to right hand margin). Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Aldous Huxley. c. 1965
£350
Sheet size: 151 × 153 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph.
Sheet size: 151 × 153 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Promise you won't publish anything I say under the anaesthetic?" c. 1968
£350
Lying on the operation table, a patient asks his masked surgeon, surrounded by theatre nurses, to respect his anonymity. Perhaps used to illustrate a review of Christiaan Barnard:...
Sheet size: 171 ×190 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
Baudelaire. c. 1966
£350
Baudelaire in the foreground casts a jaundiced eye at a high-kicking notary.
Sheet size: 157 × 177 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
