Jul 16, 2020 - Sale 2541

Sale 2541 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
J.R. BURGESS.
"Three Jolly Cadets." Original color dust jacket design and four internal illustrations (complete) from the book of the same name by Escott Lynn (London and Edinburgh: W&R Chambers, 1931). Jacket illustration is gouache and watercolor on board. 278x270 mm; 11x10 3/4 inches. Initialed "J.R.B." in image, at right. Framed. Illustrations are watercolor, graphite, and wash on board. 270x190 mm; 10 3/4x7 1/2 inches each. Initialed by Burgess in images and captioned in pencil, lower margins. Tipped to mattes. A copy of the first edition of the book in dust jacket accompanies the artwork.