Sold at £460 by Keys was a lot offering four Fortnum & Mason Christmas catalogues of the years 1955-58, together with five other items of promotional material for the London store – all featuring the illustrative work of Edward Bawden.
An 1831, third (first illustrated) edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a version that not only contained a new introduction but added a new chapter to that famous work, sold for £2800 in a Norfolk sale.
Part of a Keys (20% buyer’s premium) sale of April 11-12, it was bound in contemporary half calf with another Colburn & Bentley title issued that same year, a copy of the American writer, Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, or the Sleepwalker, first published in 1799.