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Lot 136

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB
GAY (JOHN) The Beggar's Opera, Limited Editions Club, 1937; and 20 others

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB

GAY (JOHN) The Beggar's Opera, lithographs by Mariette Lydis, 1937--THACKERAY (W.M.) Vanity Fair, 2 vol., illustrated by John Austen, 1931; The Newcome, 2 vol., illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, 1954--MARAN (RENE) Batouala, illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, 1932--HALE (EDWARD EVERETT) The Man without a Country, illustrations by Edward A. Wilson, 1936--WILDE (OSCAR) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, lithographs by Zhenya Gay, 1937--MILTON (JOHN) The Masque of Comus, illustrations by Edmund Dulac, 1954--APULEIUS (LUCIUS) The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, illustrations by Edmund Dulac, 1951--SOPHOCLES. Antigone, illustrated by Harry Bennett, 1935--ARISTOPHANES. The Frogs, wood-enravings by John Austen, 1937; The Birds, illustrated by Marian Parry, 1959--TWAIN (MARK) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by Norman Rockwell, 1936; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, illustrated by Norman Rockwell, 1940; most limited to 1500 copies and signed by the illustrator, publisher's bindings (with slipcases or dust-jackets) or modern morocco gilt (some by Sangorski or Zaehnsdorf), folio and 4to, Limited Editions Club and Heritage Press; and 7 others (22)

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