WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR Saturday 6 May 2017 at 10am

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM

The Time Traveller Collection

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Holme, Charles (Ed.) The Studio. Alfred Chester Beatty’s personal bound set and books from his

library.

The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. London, Offices of The Studio, 1893 - 1929.

4to. 97 volumes bound in 69 books with the Register for Vols 1-29, lacking volume 61. Includes original

lithographs with the Studio blind embossed stamp. Inscribed ‘Chester Beatty - 24 Kensington Palace

Gardens - W. 8’; Also Shakespeare’s Secret; A new & Correct interpretation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

Dublin, Printed & published at the Dolmen Press for the Melander Shakespeare Society, 1961. 8vo. 157,

(2) pages plus Corrigenda leaf. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering on spine in publisher’s slipcase. No. 11 of

only 100 copies of a limited edition. Signed and hand-numbered by Rudolf Alexander Holzapfel in the

Impressum. Additionally signed and inscribed by Holzapfel: “To Sir Alfred Chester Beatty from the author

- Rudolf Alexander Holzapfel - Dublin, August 29th, 1962”; and Dawson, W.J. The Makers of English Poetry.

New York / Chicago / Toronto, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1906. 8vo, 404 pages, red cloth with gilt

lettering on spine and cover. Inscribed ‘Alfred Chester Beatty’ to the endpaper.

Estimate €10000-€15000 (approx £8500-£12750)