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Details
Cecil BEATON – A 19th-century English Regency penwork and ebonised bookcase from Reddish House, Beaton’s residence at his time of death; with a group of 37 books by Cecil Beaton, many first edition and inscribed; and a hat designed by Beaton from a 1961 production of Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. The books comprise:
BEATON, Cecil (1904-1980). The Book of Beauty. London: Duckworth, 1930. Signed limited edition of Beaton’s first published book of photographs. Quarto (286 x 222mm). Color frontispiece, 27 black and white photographs with tissue guards, numerous in text line illustrations (very occasional marginal spotting). Original white cloth, spine titled in gilt (light soiling, corners bumped). [With] Air of Glory: A Wartime Scrapbook. London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1941. The first edition with dust-jacket of Beaton’s work documenting “the minutiae of the everyday” during WWII. Quarto (275 x 212mm). Black and white photos throughout. Original red cloth with dust-jacket (jacket repaired at spine and corners). [And:] Japanese. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. First edition with dust-jacket inscribed by the author to Carmel Snow. Quarto (280 x 213mm). Black and white photographs and line drawings. Original cloth over pink decorated paper, with dust-jacket (light soiling and a tear to bottom edge of jacket; text block cracked); and 34 other works by Beaton.
BEATON, Cecil (1904-1980). The Book of Beauty. London: Duckworth, 1930. Signed limited edition of Beaton’s first published book of photographs. Quarto (286 x 222mm). Color frontispiece, 27 black and white photographs with tissue guards, numerous in text line illustrations (very occasional marginal spotting). Original white cloth, spine titled in gilt (light soiling, corners bumped). [With] Air of Glory: A Wartime Scrapbook. London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1941. The first edition with dust-jacket of Beaton’s work documenting “the minutiae of the everyday” during WWII. Quarto (275 x 212mm). Black and white photos throughout. Original red cloth with dust-jacket (jacket repaired at spine and corners). [And:] Japanese. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. First edition with dust-jacket inscribed by the author to Carmel Snow. Quarto (280 x 213mm). Black and white photographs and line drawings. Original cloth over pink decorated paper, with dust-jacket (light soiling and a tear to bottom edge of jacket; text block cracked); and 34 other works by Beaton.
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