Sir Peter Blake’s entry to First Editions Re-Covered was a jacket design for an 1872, first US edition of Through the Looking Glass…. It sold for £12,000.
One of Sir Quentin Blake’s two entries, this 1833 first of The Hunchback of Notre Dame sold for £11,000.
Sold as part of a Sotheby’s (25/20/12.9% buyer’s premium) sale to benefit the charity House of Illustration, and in partnership with both the saleroom and Winsor & Newton, was a group of 33 lots gathered together under the heading First Editions Re-Covered.