Lot Essay
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John Austen (1886-1948)
Illustrations to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen, including chapter headings and page decorations
some inscribed; pencil, pen and black ink, one watercolour, unframed
11½ x 7in. (29 x 18cm.) and smaller; and six unpublished unframed wood engravings and an unframed drawing of a chapter heading for the above book by the same artist (21)
Illustrations to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen, including chapter headings and page decorations
some inscribed; pencil, pen and black ink, one watercolour, unframed
11½ x 7in. (29 x 18cm.) and smaller; and six unpublished unframed wood engravings and an unframed drawing of a chapter heading for the above book by the same artist (21)