A couple of upcoming Christie's auctions with Brontë-related items:
Sale 5610
Prints and Multiples
14 September 2010
London, South Kensington
Lot 131
Balthus (1908-2002)
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
The complete book, 1989, comprising 12 lithographs, title and text on wove paper, each image signed with initials and numbered XII/XXX aside from the standard edition of 170, published by Librairie Seguier, Paris, with full margins, loose within paper wrappers with protective canvas-covered boards and slipcase, generally in good condition
385 x 290 mm. (book)
Sale 5682
Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera
29 September 2010
London, South Kensington
Lot 1026
Estimate: £600 - £900
LITERATURE, English - BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Thornton Edition. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. 12 vols, 8°. Plates. 20th-century green half morocco. [With:] LYTTON, Edward George, Lord. Works. London: George Routledge, c.1870s. 28 vols, 8°. Contemporary dark blue half calf, red morocco labels on the spines (light wear). And 23 works in 46 volumes, mainly English literature.
Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontëana
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