 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Antiques and collecting: Hungry for beautiful books.(Features)
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The Birmingham Post (England)
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August 23, 2003
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
The recent sale at Wormington Manor in the Cotswolds saw a small but luxurious collection of illustrated books fetching sky high prices.
Among them was Kay Nielsen illustra-tions for In Powder and Crinoline. There were also books illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, whose Sinbad The Sailor and other stories from the Arabian Nights made a final price of pounds 2,300 against a top estimate of pounds 1,500.
But that'...
