Back

Sothebys: The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden - bidstart 11/19

Auction Reports

Auction Name The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden - bidstart 11/19 Total Sales (GBP) 433,440.00
Auction Date December 01, 2021 - December 01, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 250,000.00
Sale Number #L21414 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 359,000.00
Total Lots 34
Sold Lots 21 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 337,000.00
% of Lots Sold 61.76% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 471,000.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ("Off with his head!"), 1907

1907 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 69,300.00
5 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for A Midsummer Night's Dream (She never had so sweet a changeling), 1908

1908 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 50,400.00
4 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania lying asleep), 1908

1908 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 47,880.00
13 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Kensington Gardens), 1912

1912 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 30,240.00
21 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The nightmare, with her whole ninefold)

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,720.00
16 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Allies' Fairy Book (The dragon flew out and caught the queen)

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
6 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for A Midsummer Night's Dream (Up and down, up and down, Goblin), 1908

1908 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,680.00
11 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Aesop's Fables ("Medicine Show"), 1912

1912 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
10 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods (There I learned what love is like)

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
15 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (Frog Prince), 1913

1913 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
31 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (That little melancholy air your papa was so fond of)

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
19 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Comus (The brothers rush in with swords drawn)

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
18 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Comus (No goblin or swart faery of the mine), 1914

1914 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
9 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Rhinegold and the Valkirie (The likeness between Siegmund and Sieglinde)

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
14 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Illustration for Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (Puss in Boots)

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
24 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (A favourite song of Dryden's)

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
23 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (Sunday waistcoats for Dick and Bill)

GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
17 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Comus (And they, so perfect is their misery...), 1914

1914 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
34 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for unidentified title (Two men fighting on a river bank)

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
29 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (Bill sings the "Elegy on the death of a mad dog")

GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
1 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Rip Van Winkle (Sure Enough! It is Rip Van Winkle), 1904

1904 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
Ask Questions