ADAMS--LAWRENCE | Watership Down, 1976 [together with:] five illustrations

ADAMS, RICHARD--LAWRENCE, JOHN, ADAMS

Five Watership Down illustrations, comprising:

i) ‘Watership Down’, 265 by 225mm., slight spotting; ii) ‘Watership Down’, 125 by 225mm.; iii) ‘The Railway Bridge’, 220 by 165mm., slight spotting; iv) ‘Hazel’, 230 by 185mm.; v) ‘The River Enborne’, 250 by 220mm.; each ink and watercolour drawing, each signed and dated lower right “John Lawrence ’82” and titled lower right, each mounted, framed and glazed

[together with:] Adams, Richard. Watership Down. Penguin Books/Kestrel Books, 1976, first illustrated edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“Yours very sincerely | Richard Adams | 9th January 1978”) on reverse of half-title, two collector’s bookplates SIGNED BY EITHER AUTHOR OR ARTIST, folding map at end, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, some spotting, dust-jacket frayed at extremities

[together with:] Henry Sotheran Limited. Watership Down… An Exhibition Catalogue. Sotheran, 1982, one of 3000 copies, collector’s bookplate signed by the author, original wrappers

John Lawrence provided illustrations to the first illustrated edition of Watership Down in 1976. Eight years after his original commission Sotheran’s persuaded the artist to produce a further collection of illustrations for their exhibition to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Watership Down. Five of those 27 illustrations are included in the present lot.

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