Fine Books & Manuscripts - Catalogue 89

J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S

Fine Original Drawing On Vellum

18. Old Houses In Gallowgate From The City of the West KING, Jessie Marion

[1911]. Original pen and ink on vellum. 9 x 23 cm. Signed Jes- sie M. King to lower right hand corner. Mounted framed and glazed. In fine condition. [42879] £6,500 LITERATURE: The City of the West (TN Foulis, 1911), plate XIX.

Fine, Lilac-Stained Chivers Vellucent Binding 19. The Day Book Of John Stuart Blackie Selected and Transcribed from the Manuscript by his Nephew STODART-WALKER, Archibald; CARLETON SMYTH, Dor- othy Grant Richards, 1902. An exceptional Chivers binding. Second edition. 8vo. Finely bound in a full lilac-stained vellucent bind- ing by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), designed by Dorothy Carleton Smyth in the Glasgow Style. The upper cover decorated with sprays of painted thistles, fine gilt rules and pointelle, large mother of pearl inlays, and a central clock motif. The spine lettered in black and painted in lilac and green, with fine gilt rules and pointelle. The low - er cover with a central mother of pearl inlay, circled in gilt, with fine gilt pointelle and painted thistles in lilac and green. Portrait frontispiece under loose tissue guard. A near fine ex - ample, some variance to the lilac staining but the overall effect is uninhibited. Internally fine. An exquisite example of an am - bitious Chivers vellucent binding. [42791] £5,000 An intricate and ambitious binding, one of Dorothy Carleton Smyth’s finest designs.

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