Charles Kingsley Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Charles Kingsley Art Value Price Guide

Apr. 10, 2025
Bindings. KINGSLEY (Charles)
Est: £60 - £100
Bindings. KINGSLEY (Charles) Works, 14 vols., Library Edition, New York 1903, 8vo, frontispieces and illustrations, half red morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut; 4 others - Eliot and Thackeray (18)
Cheffins
Mar. 06, 2025
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, one of 260 de Luxe copies, Macmillan and Co., 1909.
Est: £400 - £600
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, one of 260 de Luxe copies, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 31 plates by Warwick Goble, printed tissue-guards, one or two plates with light crease to lower corner, the odd spot, browning to endpapers, original pictorial vellum with ties, gilt, one tie loose, spine with few spots and light bumping to ends, light browning to spine, cover extremities and fore-edge, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, Macmillan and Co., 1909.
Forum Auctions - UK
Feb. 22, 2025
Charles Kingsley, Illustrations by H.C. Selous of Hereward the Wake 1870, 15x21
Est: $400 - $500
Charles Kingsley, Illustrations by H.C. Selous of Hereward the Wake. Art Union of London 1870. 20 plates. Larger than typical folio (almost all others are 12 x 17), half leather on cloth covers, beveled edges, gilt title. Title page has facsimile signatures. 7.7lb Measurements: Approx. 15 x 21 Condition: Good condition, edgewear to joints, corners, scratches, abrasions, lightly sunned cover. Creasing to end papers, foxing, some toning. Domestic Shipping:$30
Carnegie's Auction Gallery
Nov. 30, 2024
Charles Kingsley His Letters Memories of His Life
Est: $25 - $50
Volume 1 Kingsley and Kingsley, 1887.
Davis Brothers Auction
Nov. 01, 2024
Charles Kingsley English Novelist CDV Photo
Est: $25 - $50
3 1/2" by 2 1/2" Charles Kingsley 12 June 1819 23 January 1875 was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labor cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
Davis Brothers Auction
Oct. 10, 2024
Kingsley (Charles) Hereward the Wake, 1889; and c.75 others literature, leather bound (c.75)
Est: £200 - £300
Kingsley (Charles) Hereward the Wake, prize bookplate to pastedown, central gilt arms to upper cover, 1889 § Maud (Constance) Wagner's Heroes, frontispiece and decorations, gift ink inscription to front endpaper, hinges a little weak, 1895 § The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray and Smollett, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke, endpapers lightly foxed, 1863, all in contemporary calf, the first in red, spines gilt with morocco labels, various rubbing; and c.70 others literature, fiction and non-fiction, all leather bound, v.s. (c.75)
Forum Auctions - UK
Oct. 10, 2024
Charles Kingsley's copy.- [Brodrick (Thomas), attributed to] Historia sacra; or, The holy history; giving an exact and comprehensive account of all the feasts and fasts of the Church of England, ...
Est: £100 - £150
Charles Kingsley's copy.- [Brodrick (Thomas), attributed to] Historia sacra; or, The holy history; giving an exact and comprehensive account of all the feasts and fasts of the Church of England, title (detached) printed in red and black, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached with title attached, lower joint split, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and marked, 8vo, John Wyat, 1705. *** Provenance: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), priest, university professor, social reformer, novelist (including The Water Babies) and poet (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); 'C. Cuthbert Hall', ?Charles Cuthbert Hall (1852-1908), American Presbyterian minister and educator (ink name to head of title and inscription to front pastedown 'From the study at Eversley Rectory', along with a photograph captioned 'Study door. Eversley'.
Forum Auctions - UK
Sep. 26, 2024
Charles Kingsley: The Water Babies
Est: $50 - $100
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1938.
STAIR
Jun. 08, 2024
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) English, Archival Pr
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) English, Archival Print. Cardum Rusticum and Pagurus Bernhardi in a Periwinkle Shell. Size: 19 x 13 in. Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) was active/lived in England. Charles Kingsley is known for Novel, children's literature and poetry writing, painting. #1885 Location Box 10
Sarasota Estate Auction
May. 09, 2024
Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first illustrated edition, [c.1930]; and c.55 others, illustrated (c.55)
Est: £150 - £200
Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first Wilcox Smith illustrated edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith, captioned tissue-guards, ink inscription to front free endpaper, the odd faint spot, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine a little sunned, [c.1930] § Carroll (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 48 colour plates by Margaret W. Tarrant, the odd faint spot, original cloth, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, dust-jacket, some slight soiling, a few short tears to corners and spine ends, [c.1925] § Wagner (Richard) Tannhauser, 12 mounted colour plates by Willy Pogany, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners bumped, [c.1911]; and c. 50 others, illustrated, including works by Louis Wain, v.s. (c.55)
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 09, 2024
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, first issue, 1863.
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, first issue with 'L'Envoi' leaf present, upper hinge cracked, contemporary ink ownership name on pastedown, spotting to frontispiece tissue-guard and the odd spot to text, original pictorial cloth, gilt, upper joint splitting but holding firm, spine ends creased and frayed, covers lightly spotted, 4to, 1863. *** Kingsley quickly withdrew the first issue with the poem 'L'Envoi', leaving only several hundred copies being published as such. Uncommon in the original cloth.
Forum Auctions - UK
Mar. 21, 2024
Kingsley's first novel.- Kingsley (Charles) Autograph Letter signed to his publisher John Parker referring to his novel "Hypatia", [1853], "I send you the copy of the next no. of Hypatia."
Est: £150 - £200
Kingsley's first novel.- Kingsley (Charles, novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist, 1819-75) Autograph Letter signed to his publisher John Parker concerning his novel "Hypatia", 1p., 8vo, Eversley, [Hampshire], n.d., [1853], "I send you the copy of the next no. of Hypatia. If you think it too short, you can have more... . I have a proof of the first part of the Cap excluded last time; but send you the 2nd.", folds, tipped-in on card. *** Kingsley's "first historical novel, Hypatia (1853), subtitled New Foes with an Old Face. The new foes were J. H. Newman, now a Roman Catholic, and the other leaders of the Oxford Movement, such as E. B. Pusey; the old face imputed to them was that of the fanatical (and of course celibate) monks of fifth-century Alexandria who murdered the Neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia, and who Kingsley viewed as extreme and discreditable examples of the asceticism of the early church from which contemporary Catholic spirituality had drawn inspiration." - Oxford DNB.
Forum Auctions - UK
Feb. 27, 2024
Charles Kingsley - Two hounds in an open landscape
Est: £500 - £700
Charles Kingsley, British 1819-1875 Two hounds in an open landscape; oil on panel, signed ‘CHARLES KINGSLEY’ (lower right), 45.5 x 60.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK.
Roseberys
Jan. 30, 2024
Charles Kingsley, Country Road at Sunset
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Kingsley (English, 1819-1875), oil on canvas depicting a horse-drawn wagon plodding down a country road toward the sunset, signed l.r., 20" x 30" canvas, 22 3/4" x 32 1/2" framed.
Old Kinderhook Auction Company
Jan. 19, 2024
Charles Kingsley "Water Babies" Edition with Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Ca. 1909
Est: $100 - $200
Edition de Luxe with Illustrations In Colour By Warwick Goble, Limited to 260 copies. MacMillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London. Three quarter leather bound, with gilt embossed. Provenance: Property from a Franklin, MI private collector
DuMouchelles
Nov. 22, 2023
Charles Kingsley, - Dartmoor, near Chagford; …
Est: £200 - £300
Charles Kingsley, British 1819-1875- Dartmoor, near Chagford; oil on canvas, signed 'CHARLES KINGSLEY' (lower left) and 'DARTMOOR / NEAR / CHAGFORD' verso, 39.5 x 60.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: While Charles Kingsley was a prolific painter, particularly of landscape vistas of his native Devon of which the present lot is a striking example, he is best remembered as a priest, social reformer, and writer. He was the author of the children's book, 'The Water-Babies' (first published 1863).
Roseberys
Oct. 19, 2023
[Kingsley (Charles)] [Westward Ho!], proof, with manuscript marks and various dates cast, [1899]; and another, a proof for another work (2).
Est: £100 - £150
[Kingsley (Charles)] [Westward Ho!], proof, with manuscript marks and various dates cast, lacks title and preliminaries, slightly browned, some edges a little creased and with small tears, loose, printed by Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London, [1899]; and another, a proof for another work, 8vo (2).
Forum Auctions - UK
Oct. 12, 2023
KINGSLEY (Charles)
Est: £500 - £700
KINGSLEY (Charles) The Life and Works in nineteen volumes, London: Macmillan & Co 1901-03, 8vo, one of 525 sets, titles in red and black, some light foxing or spotting, fine blue half morocco gilt by Bumpus, top edges gilt
Cheffins
Sep. 07, 2023
Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first edition, second issue, London & Cambridge, 1863.
Est: £200 - £300
Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first edition, second issue without the L'Envoi f., half-title, frontispiece and one plate by J. Noel Paton, without author's book list and publisher's advertisements, frontispiece with small marginal chip neatly repaired, occasional light soiling or faint spotting, handsomely bound in polished half calf by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, some light scuffing to edges and lower cover, corners rubbed, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., 4to, London & Cambridge, 1863.
Forum Auctions - UK
Aug. 24, 2023
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, first edition, first issue, 1863.
Est: £200 - £300
Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, first edition, first issue with later suppressed 'L'Envoi' poem, frontispiece, occasional light foxing, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine (lacking tips and small square hole), covers a little scuffed, still overall a very sharp copy, preserved in morocco-backed drop-back box, 4to, 1863.
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 18, 2023
Flint (Sir William Russell).- Kingsley (Charles) The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, one of 500 copies, Philip Lee Warner for The Medici Society, 1912; and others illustrated by Russell â¦
Est: £300 - £400
Flint (Sir William Russell).- Kingsley (Charles) The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, one of 500 copies, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates by Russell Flint, captioned tissue-guards, original limp vellum, green silk ties, dust-jacket, slight chipping to spine extremities, old tape repair to spine head, Philip Lee Warner for The Medici Society, 1912 § Flint (SirWilliam Russell) Drawings, number 26 of 500 copies signed by artist, plates and illustrations, additional signed plate, loose in envelope as issued, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, rubbed and worn, 1950; and 2 others illustrated by Russell Flint, 4to & folio (5).
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 07, 2023
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Est: $100 - $200
"The heroes or Greek fairy tales for my children", Charles Kingsley, Philip Lee Warner publisher to the Medici Society Ltd. MDCCCCXII, 153/500 copies on Riccardi paper. 4to. xvii, 113pp.; 12 tipped-in color plates of W. Russell Flint, with tissue guards. Full vellum wraps with cloth ties; gilt lettering; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; sewn-in silk ribbon marker. 10 1/2 x 8 inches.
John McInnis Auctioneers
Feb. 27, 2023
Charles Kingsley
Est: $200 - $300
13 volumes of Charles Kingsley's Works. Octavo Cloth/ Spines faded. good copies.
Sydney Rare Book Auctions
Nov. 10, 2022
Kingsley (Charles) [A March Poem], autograph manuscript signed, [1848].
Est: £100 - £150
Kingsley (Charles, novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist, 1819-75) [A March Poem], autograph manuscript signed, 1p., 225 x 180mm., n.d. [1848].
Forum Auctions - UK
Apr. 07, 2022
Kingsley (Charles) The Saint's Tragedy, first edition, 1848 & others (6)
Est: £100 - £150
NO RESERVE Kingsley (Charles) The Saint's Tragedy, [the author's first book], first edition, half-title, ink signature to head of title, bookplate of Brian H.Hodgson, attractive contemporary olive straight-grain morocco, by Jeffrey, decorative gilt foliate roll border and floral corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with floral motifs, g.e., upper joint a little rubbed, 1848 § Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, and other poems, first edition, spotting, contemporary calf elaborately gilt, E[leanor] V[era] B[oyle]'s copy with her initials to upper cover, spine gilt with flowers and thistles, 1855; The May Queen, wood-engraved illustrations by E.V.B., original embossed cloth, 1861 § W. (M.R.) An Incident of a Bazar and Other Stories, only edition, slight staining to first leaf of text, attractively bound in crushed olive morocco, upper cover tooled in gilt with large flower and flying bee, by Bickers & Son, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut, ivory silk endpapers, spotted and faded, privately printed, [c.1890], all a little rubbed; and 2 others, poetry, 8vo & 4to (5) ⁂ The last item is rare, with only one copy recorded (British Library).
Forum Auctions - UK
Jan. 20, 2022
Bindings.- Kingsley (Charles) [Works], 9 vol., 1888-1918; and others C. S. Forester (18).
Est: £150 - £200
Bindings.- Kingsley (Charles) [Works], 9 vol., near contemporary uniform half-calf, gilt, lightly sunned spines, 1888-1918 § Forester (C. S.) [Works], 9 vol., all but 'The Captain from Connecticut', 'Flying Colours' and 'The Happy Return' first editions, faint scattered spotting to edges, contemporary uniform half-calf, lightly sunned spines, one vol. lacking spine label, 1938-48; 8vo (18)
Forum Auctions - UK
Sep. 15, 2021
Charles Kingsley (19th century)
Est: £400 - £600
Charles Kingsley (19th century) Charles Kingsley (19th century) A cottage at dusk signed 'Charles Kingsley' l.r., oil on canvas 40 x 60cm Provenance: From a Kent country house. By family repute, the present painting is by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), author of The Water Babies.
Sworders
Aug. 05, 2021
Robinson (W. Heath).- Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first trade edition, 1915.
Est: £150 - £200
Robinson (W. Heath).- Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first trade edition, 8 colour plates and numerous illustrations by Charles Kingsley, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little darkened, spine ends and tips of corners rubbed, dust-jacket priced at 6/-, spine darkened, spine ends and corners chipped with paper repairs to verso, extremities a little creasing, some light toning to panels, 4to, 1915. ⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket.
Forum Auctions - UK
Jun. 26, 2021
Charles Kingsley The Heroes Limited Edition
Est: $5 - $500
Kingsley, Charles The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, printed on Riccardi paper #389/500. Some foxing to front and back pages.
Dovetail Auctions, LLC
Jun. 24, 2021
Fore-edge painting.- Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho!, 1855.
Est: £100 - £150
NO RESERVE Fore-edge painting.- Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho!, illustrations, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light spotting, inner gilt dentelles, fore-edge painting depicting a ship at sea with title beneath, contemporary blue calf, spine in compartments, a little faded, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1855.
Forum Auctions - UK
Feb. 04, 2021
Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho!, illustrated by Ellis Silas, 1927.
Est: £100 - £150
Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho!, colour plates by Ellis Silas, loosely inserted A.L.s. by the author, contemporary red calf, gilt, by Riviere & Son, g.e., lacking spine labels, 8vo, 1927. ⁂ The letter on Obersley Rectory, Winchfield headed paper, includes a drawing of a watermark and asks the recipient about its date.
Forum Auctions - UK
Jan. 07, 2021
Kingsley (Charles) The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, first edition, Cambridge, 1856.
Est: £100 - £150
NO RESERVE Kingsley (Charles) The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, first edition, 8 wood-engraved plates after the author, lacking advertisement leaf at end, some light spotting, ink prize presentation inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge, 1856.
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 05, 2020
WESTWARD HO! BY CHARLES KINGSLEY By Easton Press Leatherbound Hardcover Book 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated & lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Feb. 11, 2020
WESTWARD HO! BY CHARLES KINGSLEY - Easton Press Leatherbound Hardcover Book 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated and lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Jan. 14, 2020
WESTWARD HO! - CHARLES KINGSLEY - Easton Press - Leatherbound Hardcover - 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated & lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Dec. 23, 2019
WESTWARD HO! - CHARLES KINGSLEY - Easton Press - Leatherbound Hardcover - 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated & lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Dec. 05, 2019
WESTWARD HO! – CHARLES KINGSLEY - EASTON PRESS - LEATHERBOUND HARDCOVER - 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated & lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Oct. 03, 2019
WESTWARD HO! - CHARLES KINGSLEY - Easton Press - Leatherbound Hardcover - 1985
Est: $150 - $250
Easton Press, 1985. Illustrated. Fine, accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound in full red leather decorated & lettered in gilt, raised hubbed spine bands, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. Excellent, Fine condition. Pristine. Bookplate with owner markings.
The Rug Life Auctions
Jun. 13, 2019
KINGSLEY, CHARLES. 1819-1875. GOBLE, WARWICK, illustrator. The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.
Est: $500 - $700
KINGSLEY, CHARLES. 1819-1875. GOBLE, WARWICK, illustrator. The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. London: Macmillan & Company, 1909. 4to. 32 tipped-in color plates by Goble, captioned tissue guards. Blue morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, spine decorated with gilt water lilies, gilt-decorated dentelles, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Minimal shelfwear, scattered light spotting.
Bonhams
Jun. 23, 2018
Charles Kingsley, English (1819-1875), Landscape at sunset, oil on canvas, 8 x 11 1/2 inches
Est: $300 - $400
Charles Kingsley English (1819-1875) Landscape at sunset, oil on canvas, signed lower right, gilt framed in a shadowbox. 8 x 11 1/2 inches
Link Auction Galleries
Feb. 25, 2017
KINGSLEY CHARLES: (1819-1875) English Clergyman, Novelist & Historian. Vintage signed carte-de-visit
Est: £100 - £150
KINGSLEY CHARLES: (1819-1875) English Clergyman, Novelist & Historian. Vintage signed carte-de-visite photograph, the sepia albumen image by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, depicting Kingsley in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Charles Kingsley') in fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. Photographer's imprint to the verso. Rare in this form. Some very minor ink feathering to the surname and some light age wear to the image and with some slight traces of former mounting to the edges of the verso. About VG Provanance: The verso of the present photograph bears the small circular label of the Rawlins Collection and the image (illustrated without the signature) appears in The Guinness Book of World Autographs (1977). The photograph was offered by Sotheby's in their auction of the Rawlins Collection, 2nd - 4th June 1980 (Lot 1153, estimate £30/40, hammer price £16).
International Autograph Auctions
May. 04, 2016
Kingsley, Charles
Est: £800 - £1,200
Kingsley, Charles The Life and Works. London: Macmillan & Co., 1901-03. 19 volumes, 8vo, limited to 525 copies, red half morocco by Bayntun of Bath, spines gilt, t.e.g.; a fine set
Lyon & Turnbull
Dec. 04, 2014
KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875).The Novels, Poems and Life.New York, J.F. Taylor and Company, 1899.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875). The Novels, Poems and Life. New York, J.F. Taylor and Company, 1899. 14 volumes, 8° (218 x 141 mm). Illustrated with plates. Contemporary dark blue morocco elaborately gilt, covers with cream and red rose inlays at corners with gilt leafy design, spines in five compartments, gilt-lettered in two, others with gilt rose design and cream and red rose inlays, dark blue morocco turn-ins, red morocco doublures with central coat-of-arms and floral design in corners, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (one raised band slightly scuffed). LIMITED EDITION, number 4 of 26 copies of the “Autographed Edition”, this set with an AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY KINGSLEY, dated April 1849, 2pp. 8° tipped in at the beginning of volume one. “…The novel is about ¼ written, but all in my head. I could get it done by midsummer, not before.” Kingsley is probably referring to his novel Cheap Clothes and Nasty (1850).
Christie's
Oct. 18, 2014
Charles Kingsley (British, 1819-1875)
Est: $300 - $500
Sunset. Oil on canvas. Signed (l.r.). Canvas size 20 x 30 inches. Framed.
Capo Auction
Apr. 10, 2014
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Take for a Land-Baby
Est: $300 - $500
<p> Illustrated with 32 tipped-in color plates by Warwick Goble; printed tissue guards. (8vo), original gilt-pictorial cloth, all edges gilt. First Goble Trade Edition.</p>
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Dec. 05, 2013
Westward Ho!
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Illustrated with a color title page vignette and 9 full-page color plates by Wyeth. Large 8vo, black cloth with color pictorial cover label, gilt-lettered spine.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Nov. 29, 2012
KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875). The Water-Babies . London and New York: T.C. and E.C. Jack, and E.P. Dutton [1905].
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875). The Water-Babies. London and New York: T.C. and E.C. Jack, and E.P. Dutton [1905]. 8° (150 x 120mm). 8 colour plates after Katherine Cameron. (One leaf opened roughly with tear, light spotting on the edges.) Original cloth, colour plate mounted on the upper side, gilt border and lettering, top edge gilt. Provenance: Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (presentation inscription to:) -- Grand Duchess Anastasiia Nikolaevna (manuscript label of the classroom of the youngest Grand Duchesses in the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo) -- E.H. Mills (bookplate) -- Plaza Book Auction (sold, November 1933, lot 195) -- Sotheby's (sold, Russian Works of Art, 5 December 1997, lot 321). GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIIA NIKOLAEVNA'S COPY, presented to her by Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, sister of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna: 'To darling Anastasie from her loving Aunt and Godmama Irene for Xmas 1908.' Anastasia was the youngest of Nicholas II's daughters, whose purported escape from Bolshevik execution was a rich mine for scriptwriters. In the 1920s Anna Anderson claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia; upon meeting her Princess Irene dismissed her as an impostor.
Christie's
Oct. 05, 2011
Kingsley (Charles, 1819-1875). A collection of
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
Kingsley (Charles, 1819-1875). A collection of forty-seven autograph manuscript sermons, c. 1842-72, most sermons between 20 and 40 pp., with one or two of greater length, many with corrections in the authorÕs hand, most signed with initials to upper wrapper, dated and titled, mostly stitched with three bound in paper wrappers, small 4to, together with a drawing in pencil and orange chalk of Mrs Charles Kingsley, inscribed to verso ÔMrs Kingsley on the sofa reading the paperÕ, somewhat soiled, 27.5 x 40 cm (10.75 x 15.75 ins), a pen and ink sketch on blue lined paper, depicting Mount Vesuvius erupting, with diagramatic section of the volcano, 28.5 x 21 cm (11.25 x 8 ins), a cabinet portrait photograph of Charles Kingsley by John Collier of Birmingham, inscribed by the authorÕs daughter Rose Kingsley to verso, a partly handwritten inner invitation from Windsor Castle to Canon Kingsley, Saturday 30th November 1872, an engraved portrait of Kingsley by C. H. Jeeks, dated 1876, seven typescript lectures on the history of art by the authorÕs daughter Rose G. Kingsley, and two related printed booklets. A substantial and important collection of original manuscript sermons by Charles Kingsley, the novelist, Christian Socialist, man of the cloth, amateur naturalist, best known for his childrenÕs story The Water Babies (first published in 1863). This unique collection of draft sermons by Kingsley span almost the entire period of his curacy of Eversley Church, Hampshire, from July 1842 onwards. Many of the sermons, written in a powerfully simple and direct way, and often taking their cue from a biblical quotation or phrase, draw comparisons between the Bible stories and KingsleyÕs abiding interests in the condition of working people, and the wonder of the natural world. . (approx. 60)
Dominic Winter Auctions