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9. DICKENS, Charles; REYNOLDS, Frank THE PERSONAL HIS- TORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD The Westminster Press, [1911]. A sumptuous Christmas Gift book. Large quarto. Red cloth, lettered in gilt and black, with gilt and black vignette. Pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece with eighteen further tipped-in colour plates, under captioned tissue guards, plus a coloured illustration on title page, by Reynolds. A very good copy indeed, some foxing to page edges and a previous ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. Bright and clean. [46494] £150 One of Dickens’ most enduring tales. 10. DISNEY, Walt WALT DISNEY’S SKETCH-BOOK Of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Collins, 1938. First edition. 4to. Buff canvas boards with black lettering on the front panel, in a pictorial dustwrapper and pictorial end papers. Twelve tipped-in colour plates on brown paper and behind captioned tissue guard and many line drawings, showing Walt Disney’s studies for the characters in his 1937 film. A very good copy indeed, with some foxing, in a near fine dustwrapper, which is unusually bright and crisp with just light wear to the spine ends. [46390] £850 In 1934, Walt Disney began his preliminary sketches on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which was inspired by the Grimm’s story. The sketches formed the basis of his first full length cartoon film, which premiered in De- cember 1937 and this book was published shortly thereafter, in April 1938. “A truly opulent gift book” 11. DULAC, Edmund THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Hod- der & Stoughton, [1910]. First Dulac edition. 4to. Red brown mock leather binding decorated with gilt stamped decoration to both covers and spine. Thirty beauti- ful tipped in colour plates with captions below (three with light cor- ner turns), under protective tissue guards. A near very good copy, a small split to rear joint and contents a little loose between sections. [46128] £350 The colour illustrations in this book of fairy tales are very beautiful, with rich colours and plenty of Dulac’s trademark starry skies. Stories are The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.
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