Twenty books with cloth bindings, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd, 8vo.: Louisa Alcott, 'Good Wives' (2 copies); 'Basket of Flowers; Thomas Hughes, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'; William H.G. Kingston, 'Peter, the Whaler'; Robert Ballantyne, 'The Dog Crusoe'; Robert Ballantyne, 'The Coral Island' (2 copies); Charles Kingsley, 'The Water Babies' (2 copies); G.A. Henty, 'In the Hands of the Cave-Dweller'; Constance Cumming, 'In a Stranger's Garden' (2 copies); Captain Frederick Merryat, 'The Children of the New Forest'; Captain Frederick Merryat, 'Masterman Ready'; Ernest Favenc, 'The Secret of the Australian Desert'; J.H Yoxall, 'Nutbrown Roger and I'; Leslie Laing, 'Queen of the Daffodils'; H. Elrington, 'In the Days of Prince Hal'; Mrs Herbert Martin, 'Stella and her Uncle' (20)

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Twenty books with cloth bindings, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd, 8vo.: Louisa Alcott, 'Good Wives' (2 copies); 'Basket of Flowers; Thomas Hughes, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'; William H.G. Kingston, 'Peter, the Whaler'; Robert Ballantyne, 'The Dog Crusoe'; Robert Ballantyne, 'The Coral Island' (2 copies); Charles Kingsley, 'The Water Babies' (2 copies); G.A. Henty, 'In the Hands of the Cave-Dweller'; Constance Cumming, 'In a Stranger's Garden' (2 copies); Captain Frederick Merryat, 'The Children of the New Forest'; Captain Frederick Merryat, 'Masterman Ready'; Ernest Favenc, 'The Secret of the Australian Desert'; J.H Yoxall, 'Nutbrown Roger and I'; Leslie Laing, 'Queen of the Daffodils'; H. Elrington, 'In the Days of Prince Hal'; Mrs Herbert Martin, 'Stella and her Uncle' (20)

Lot Essay

Cf. Gerald and Celia Larner, The Glasgow Style, Edinburgh 1979, pl.107

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