Lot 801: * Woodroffe (Paul Vincent, 1875-1954). "The Magic

* Woodroffe (Paul Vincent, 1875-1954). "The Magic Banquet", from The Tempest, pub. Chapman & Hall, 1908, together a pair of watercolours with pen & ink, heightened with bodycolour, on artist's board, laid down, both inscribed on the verso 'The Magic Banquet, Paul Woodroffe, Campden, Glos.', each 34 x 22.5cm (13.5 x 9ins), double aperture gold mount, gilt moulded frame, glazed, together with a copy of the book for which the paintings were conceived, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, seventeen mounted col. plts., three double-page, occn. foxing to text, bookplates of A.T. Corke and Jean Corke on front pastedown, 4to. Provenance: Lieutenant Denys Royds Brocklebank, R.N., Longbridge House, Warminster; anonymous sale; Christie's London, 25 November 1927, lot 95. In the Chapman and Hall edition, the double-page illustration of these works carries a quotation from 'The Tempest', as the banquet is brought before the three lords, and Alonso exclaims: "Give us kind keepers, heavens!-What were these?" (Act III, Scene III). The works depict anthropomorphic creatures and horned cherubs revelling as the banquet appears, some bearing huge platters of food aloft, others playing strange instruments and holding flaming torches. British book illustrator and stained-glass artist Paul Woodroffe trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in Bloomsbury, and his first illustrated book 'Ye Booke of Nursery Rhymes' was published in 1895 while he was still a student. Woodroffe moved to Chipping Campden in 1904 and lived there for over thirty years, his own workshop developing alongside that of Charles Robert Ashbee and The Guild of Handicraft, which had moved from the East End of London to Chipping Campden in 1902. Early on in the period, Ashbee was responsible for redesigning Woodroffe's cottage and adapting it to include an artist's studio. (1)