William Wilkie Collins Paintings & Artwork for Sale | William Wilkie Collins Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 15, 2023
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889)
Est: €400 - €500
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English novelist and playwright whose work The Moonstone (1868) is widely considered as the first modern detective novel. A good A.Q.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, 17th February 1883, on his personal printed monogrammed stationery. Collins has penned a seven-line quotation which he identifies as being from The Woman in White, in full, 'Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money; but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them'. Rare in this form. Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the upper edge and with a few signs of previous tears (professionally restored to a very high standard and now only very slightly affecting a few words of text) and with some minor traces of former mounting to the verso. G The mystery novel The Woman in White (1859-60) was Collins's fifth published work and can be seen as an early example of detective fiction with the protagonist, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Apr. 25, 2022
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). The Woman in White. New York: Harper & Brother
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). The Woman in White. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. A lovely copy of the first American edition of Collins's mystery-detective novel. The Woman in White was first…
Christie's
Feb. 16, 2022
* Collins (Wilkie, 1824-1889). Autograph envelope signed, [1878]
Est: £100 - £150
* Collins (Wilkie, 1824-1889). Autograph envelope signed, [1878] Collins (Wilkie, 1824-1889). Autograph envelope signed, [1878], envelope, addressed by hand to Mr C. Thomas, Messrs Robson & Sons, printers, 20 Pancreas Road, N.W., with perforated penny red and half-penny stamp, postmarked to verso London November 25, 1878, and with red wax seals to verso, 12.5 x 16.5 cm (5 x 6.5 ins) Qty: (1) Footnote: Robson & Sons were at this time engaged in the printed of Wilkie Collins novel The Fallen Leaves, published in 1879, one of the authors most important contributions to the subject of the fallen women and her struggle in society. The envelope is addressed to Charles Thomas, of Robson & Sons, who serialised the novel in their magazine The World.
Dominic Winter Auctions
May. 23, 2019
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889)
Est: €110 - €170
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist and Playwright. His work The Moonstone (1868) is widely considered the first modern detective novel. A.N.S., `Very truly yours, Wilkie Collins´, on a 6.5 x 4 page removed from an autograph album, dated 16th December 1873 in his hand. A bold black ink signature. Very small area of paper loss to the upper edge, not affecting the signature. G £100-150
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Nov. 22, 2018
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889)
Est: €110 - €180
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist and Playwright. His work The Moonstone (1868) is widely considered the first modern detective novel. A.N.S., `V[er]y truly yours, Wilkie Collins´, on a 12mo clipped piece, dated in London, 19th May 1885 in his hand. A bold black ink signature. Small overall minor age wear. G £100-150
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Aug. 16, 2017
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold, dark ink signature ('Wilkie Collins') with three additional words and the date, 20th February 1888
Est: £100 - £150
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold, dark ink signature ('Wilkie Collins') with three additional words and the date, 20th February 1888, in his hand on an oblong 12mo piece. Some light overall age toning, otherwise VG
International Autograph Auctions
Jun. 24, 2017
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. A.L.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, 20th December 1882, to a gentleman, on printed stationery featuring the attractive monogram of Collins which incorporates a
Est: £400 - £500
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. A.L.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, 20th December 1882, to a gentleman, on printed stationery featuring the attractive monogram of Collins which incorporates a quill. Collins informs his correspondent that 'My literary engagements will not allow me to consider the proposal with which you have honoured me' and continues to apologise for the late reply, further explaining 'I have been so hard at work that I have found it impossible to keep up with the demand of a large correspondence'. With blank integral leaf. Very slightly, neatly trimmed to the upper edge, otherwise VG
International Autograph Auctions
Jun. 24, 2017
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. D.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, London, n.d. (c.1886). The partially printed document, completed by Collins, is a questionnaire to be completed by members of the Council of Welcome for the American
Est: £300 - £400
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. D.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, London, n.d. (c.1886). The partially printed document, completed by Collins, is a questionnaire to be completed by members of the Council of Welcome for the American Exhibition, and asks 'Do you approve of the Establishment of the suggested Club?', to which Collins answers 'Yes', and 'Are you prepared to become a Member, if the Club is formed?', to which Collins answers 'No'. Signed by Collins at the foot, also entering his address at Gloucester Place in his hand. With integral address leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG The American Exhibition was a world's fair held in West Brompton, London, in 1887, in the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Support for the exhibition had initially been sought in 1886, but with the British Government insisting that it not compete with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, the American Exhibition was deferred to 1887. The main attraction was the Wild West show featuring William F. Cody and it represented the first time that Buffalo Bill's show came to London.
International Autograph Auctions
Sep. 26, 2015
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold ink signature ('Wilkie C
Est: £100 - £150
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold ink signature ('Wilkie Collins') and holograph address at 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, on a 12mo clipped piece neatly laid down to a decorative 8vo page removed from a contemporary album. The page also features four signed clipped pieces by other Victorian writers comprising Grant Allen, Marie Corelli, Charlotte M. Yonge and George MacDonald. A letter by Lucy Bethia Walford (1845-1915) Scottish Novelist & Artist, is neatly laid down to the verso, being an A.L.S., L B Walford, three pages, 8vo, Cranbrooke Hall, Ilford, n.d. ('Saturday'), to Miss. Tyler. Walford invites her correspondent and her sister to a dinner, explaining 'We have a couple of Editors coming - namely Mr. Longman (Longmans) & Mr. Sidney Low (St. James's Gazette)….I think you like Editors & such people, don't you?'. About VG
International Autograph Auctions
Mar. 21, 2015
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. A.L.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 2
Est: £200 - £300
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. A.L.S., Wilkie Collins, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 23rd April n.y., to a lady, in French. Collins thanks his correspondent for her friendly letter and expects to welcome her on Monday with pleasure. With blank integral leaf. VG
International Autograph Auctions
Apr. 26, 2014
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist.
Est: £100 - £150
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Autograph address panel signed ('Wilkie Collins'), the oblong 12mo panel neatly trimmed from a larger envelope, addressed by Collins in bold, dark fountain pen ink to Edward Lear at Villa Tennyson, San Remo, Italy and additionally marked in his hand 'By Book Post, Registered' and dated 25th August 1883. Bearing a four pence postage stamp and two Registered postal cancellations. Signed by Collins at the base with his return address at 90 Gloucester Place, London, in his hand. An interesting association. Some light age wear, otherwise VG Edward Lear (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet.
International Autograph Auctions
Mar. 02, 2014
W.W. COLLINS, ''Swadane, 'Village Scene',
Est: £100 - £200
W.W. COLLINS, ''Swadane, 'Village Scene', watercolour, 22cm x 27cm, signed lower left and framed.
Lots Road Auctions
Mar. 20, 2012
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). Rambles Beyond
Est: £70 - £100
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-Foot ... Second Edition. London: Richard Bentley, 1852. 8vo. Tinted lithographed frontispiece and 11 plates by Henry C. Brandling (some light staining many to plates, a few spots). Contemporary cloth (rebacked in leatherette, new endpapers).
Chiswick Auctions
Dec. 03, 2011
Collins, William Wilkie
Est: $40,000 - $45,000
Collins, William Wilkie. (1824-89) English novelist; one of the first and greatest masters of the mystery story. His mysteries had very skillful and complex plots, influencing the later works of his friend and sometime collaborator Charles Dickins. Collins wrote 25 novels and over 50 short stories. He was immensely popular in his time. Some of his best-known works are No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), The Moonstone (1868), and The New Magdalen (1873).Autograph Manuscript Signed, Fie! Fie! or The Fair Physician, a story published in The Spirit of the Times, Dec. 23, 1882, 20 pages, 10 3/4 x 9 inches. The manuscript is entirely written in black ink in Collins' hand, with many holograph corrections, so busy and messy that it is difficult to imagine a publisher accepting this as the printer's copy. Each page is laid to a page in an album, 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. The covers, now worn and the spine loose and damaged, are trimmed in black morocco with gilt lettering, "Fie! Fie! or The Fair Physician by Wilkie Collins / The Original Manuscript." A cabinet photo of Collins, signed in purple ink, is affixed to the inside cover. The first page has the title written in Wilkie's hand and "(Edited, Under the Instructions of Mrs. Crossmichael, By) Wilkie Collins." The pages are lightly toned, else in fine condition. A unique manuscript by the famous mystery writer.Note: The April 27, 1895 issue of the London weekly The Publishers' Circular (No. 1504) reports the sale that week at Sotheby's of the corrected proof of this story, as well as manuscripts for two other Wilkie stories, "The Devil's Spectacles" and "Love's Random Shots," and notes that the envelope containing the stories has the following holograph note signed by Wilkie and dated Jan. 10, 1887: "These stories have served their purpose in periodicals, but are not worthy of republication in book form. They were written in a hurry and the sooner they are drowned in the waters of oblivion the better. I desire that they shall not be republished after my death." Estimated Value $40,000 - 45,000
Goldberg Coins & Collectibles
Apr. 03, 2011
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist.
Est: £80 - £100
COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold, dark ink signature and three additional words in his hand on a slip of paper neatly removed from the conclusion of a letter. Dated 25th April 1887 in his hand. Laid down, G
International Autograph Auctions
Feb. 26, 2011
COLLINS, WILKIE (1824-1889) SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
Est: $20 - $2,000
COLLINS, WILKIE (1824-1889) SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH Signed cabinet card by the author of 'Moonstone.'
Dirk Soulis Auctions
Sep. 25, 2010
AUTOGRAPHS: COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English
Est: £100 - £120
AUTOGRAPHS: COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Pencil signature ('Wilkie Collins') to the verso of a small 8vo printed menu for a dinner given in honour of Collins and hosted by S. S. Conant of Harper's Weekly at the Century Club on 1st October 1873. Also signed in pencil by over twenty guests at the dinner including Bret Harte, Thomas Nast and John Hay. Accompanied by a news clipping relating to the dinner, providing a list of the guests, and a couple of related T.Ls.S., one by Milton Miller of The Daily News in New York, 29th January 1908, to William Church, enquiring about the signatures and requesting other details of the dinner. The menu neatly trimmed and with traces of former mounting, some staining and other minor faults. FR, 5
International Autograph Auctions
Nov. 15, 2009
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889), Man and Wife, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870, original brown stamped cloth, ...
Est: $100 - $125
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889), Man and Wife, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870, original brown stamped cloth, 8vo, (corners chipped and frayed, upper spine split, minor fading).
Skinner
Jun. 10, 2009
COLLINS, WILKIE. 1824-1889.
Est: $200 - $300
The Moonstone. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 223 pp (including frontis). Illustrated. 8vo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine somewhat sunned, light shelfwear, but generally an excellent copy. First American edition. Provenance: From the collection of M.B. Goldstone.
Bonhams
Sep. 27, 2008
Autographs: COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English
Est: £80 - £100
Autographs: COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Bold, dark ink signature and three additional words in his hand on a slip of paper neatly removed from the conclusion of a letter. Dated 25th April 1887 in his hand. Laid down, G
International Autograph Auctions
Apr. 02, 2008
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889) [and Charles DICKENS]. The Frozen Deep. A Drama in Three Acts . "Not Published," 1866.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889) [and Charles DICKENS]. The Frozen Deep. A Drama in Three Acts. "Not Published," 1866. 8o (162 x 102 mm). (Minor soft crease in lower margins.) Original printed wrappers (two tiny tears on rear wrapper at spine); cloth folding case. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). "PEOPLE ARE SO UNMERCIFULLY SUPERIOR TO SUPERSTITION IN THESE ENLIGHTENED TIMES" -- Mrs. Steventon, page 8. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. John C. Eckel writes that The Frozen Deep and The Lighthouse "were written by Wilkie Collins and acted for the benefit of the Douglas Jerrold Fund, in 1856, and at the private Theatricals, Tavistock House, in 1857. As usual with a play which passed into rehearsal under Dickens' auspices it came out improved. This was the case with 'The Frozen Deep.' The changes were so numerous that the drama almost may be ascribed to Dickens." Dickens himself took the part of Richard Wardour and was stage-manager. See R.C. Lehmann, Charles Dickens as Editor, 1912, pp. 223-31. Eckel, p.166; Yale/Gimbel H104. A FINE COPY.
Christie's
Dec. 05, 2006
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). The Frozen Deep. A Drama in Three Acts. "Not Published": 1866.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
8 o. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: WILKIE COLLINS (AUTHOR'S COPY, WITH HIS CORRECTIONS); E.H? (red morocco booklabel). VERY RARE FIRST EDITION: CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH NOTES ON THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM BY CHARLES DICKENS. On the front wrapper Collins has written "Corrected Copy" and he makes substantive changes on fourteen pages, principally to stage directions. Some one hundred words are written in the margins, supplementing or changing details of dialogue and direction. The longest addition is on page 14, where the figure touches Clara: "The figure of Wardour at the same moment raises and points the gun at Frank. As he raises the gun a faint cry is [sic] escapes Clara and she sinks into Lucy's arms." [With:] Printed program for performances in remembrance of Douglas Jerrold. Bifolium, 4to. WITH 7 LINES IN COLLINS'S HAND ANNOUNCING REHEARSALS FOR 'THE FROZEN DEEP' AND 3 LINES IN DICKENS'S HAND. Collins writes "Frozen Deep. Rehearsal Calls" and provides four dates and times. To that, Dickens adds two further dates: "On Saturday July 4th the piece will be privately acted here to the Queen. And on Saturday July 11th it will be acted here, agreeably to the accompanying programme. Frederick Evans Esquire and to others." John C. Eckel writes that The Frozen Deep and The Lighthouse "were written by Wilkie Collins and acted for the benefit of the Douglas Jerrold Fund, in 1856, and at the private Theatricals, Tavistock House, in 1857. As usual with a play which passed into rehearsal under Dickens' auspices it came out improved. This was the case with 'The Frozen Deep.' The changes were so numerous that the drama almost may be ascribed to Dickens." Eckel acknowledges the present copy, sold at Anderson's in 1911: "a unique and interesting copy, having the autograph of Wilkie Collins on the title and a playbill of its presentation at Tavistock House... It was said that the copy belonged to Mamie Dickens, daughter of the novelist." Eckel, p.166.
Christie's
Jul. 11, 2006
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Est: £100 - £150
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) Autograph letter signed, to the Committee of the American Chicago Relief Fund, with a contribution and praise of ''the heroic spirit'' shown by the survivors of the Chicago fire, 2 pages, 31 October 1871, tipped on to card
Lyon & Turnbull
Mar. 03, 2004
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889) -- Presentation copy. Opinions of the Press. Olympic
Est: £700 - £1,000
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889) -- Presentation copy. Opinions of the Press. Olympic Theatre Woman in White. [London: printed by W.S. Johnson, 1871]. 8° (199 x 126mm). 16p. Original white pictorial wrappers (covers slightly worn at corners, short internal tears to spine). The front cover of this collection of reviews reproduces the famous woodcut poster design by Frederick Walker, 'which can almost be said to mark the birth of modern English poster art' (Kenneth Robinson Wilkie Collins, 1951, p. 252). The back cover shows George Vining as Count Fosco. The words 'presentation copy' on the title seem to indicate that copies were complimentary, and to be given away for the sake of publicity rather than paid for. RARE. Parrish p. 158.
Christie's
Mar. 03, 2004
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889). The Woman in White: A Drama in a Prologue and Four
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889). The Woman in White: A Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts. London: published by the author, 1871. 8° (188 x 115mm). (Small stain on title, pp. 5-9 detached, a few short marginal tears.) Original white printed wrappers (soiled, front wrapper with old fold mark and small stain), brown cloth box. Provenance: author's copy (title inscribed in Wilkie's hand 'Represented for the First Time at the Olympic Theatre. October 9th 1871'; his additions and deletions in pen or pencil to 16 pages of text) -- purchased from George Bates, London, 17 June 1938, £35. Exhibited: Grolier Club (1950s exhibition label loosely inserted). WILKIE COLLINS' OWN COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN PLAY FORM which rewrote the novel, by now too familiar to hold surprises for the audience. In 1860 J.M. Ware had staged an unauthorised Woman in White at the Surrey Theatre. Although the true Wilkie Collins play had been tried out in August 1870 at the Theatre Royal, Leicester, his title inscription rightly records that this was the first performance of the authorised script. The play opened at London's Olympic Theatre on 9 October, and in Wilkie's words 'really took the audience by storm.' Receipts for the first week reached £475, and the play eventually had a run of 19 weeks. However, rehearsals had been been anything but a pleasure, George Vining, who played the part of Count Fosco, also doubling as a rather difficult and indecisive manager. The young actor, Wybert Reeve, marvelled at Wilkie's patience as rehearsals regularly dragged on from the morning until five, and often again from six or seven in the evening until the early hours of the next day (see Catherine Peters The King of Inventors, 1991, pp. 332-33). From the annotations made to this copy, it appears that Wilkie's script worked well and required little alteration until the denouement at the end of Act IV. The names of the actors, both in the Prologue and the main drama, are neatly written in. There are deletions to two speeches by Pesca in the Prologue and 7 new lines are written in (pp. 10-11, 12). Three of Fosco's lines are deleted in Act I and two new lines provided (p. 28). Changes in pencil to Act II (pp. 48-50) are mainly to stage directions. A 12-line speech by Mr. Kyrle is cut out in Act IV (p. 73), and two lines of Walter Hartright's (p. 77) are the subject of a 'query' ('Is this cut out? If so restore it).' But the setting of 'the last scene' (p. 80) is entirely deleted, a direction being given to 'see corrections in the other book,' and on the closing pages (85-88) hitherto careful annotation gives way to frenzied rewriting, much of the text being boxed for deletion, and the blank versos of three pages filled with new stage directions and dialogue. A deleted inscription on the front wrapper reads: 'Book No. 2 corrections in the last scene,' indicating that Wilkie may have annotated two copies of the play, and that this was probably his fair copy up until the last scene. Some thought was evidently given to reprinting the amended text for a pencil note, in another hand and formerly pinned to the title, reads: 'There are no others corrected whole. There are none marked "corrected copy" -- & none with any loose leaves in. I have looked everywhere....' Parrish p. 43.
Christie's
Mar. 03, 2004
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889). No Name. London: Sampson Low, 1862. 3 volumes, 8°
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889). No Name. London: Sampson Low, 1862. 3 volumes, 8° (197 x 123mm). (Occasional marginal soiling.) Uncut in original scarlet cloth, spines gilt (inner hinges split). Volume I with tipped-in autograph letter, one page, 8°, signed 'Wilkie Collins,' dated 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square W., London, 16 April 1883, to Alfred T. Waite, thanking him for his kindness in sending the '"Herald" -- and in thus reminding me of a very pleasant interview with your contributor and his friend.' Not in The Letters of Wilkie Collins, ed. W. Baker and W.M. Clarke, vol. II 1866-1889, 1999. Provenance: John E. Sandbach (ownership stamps on free endpapers) -- purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 1 April 1939, $35. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Wilkie Collins began to write this novel in August of 1861, his imagination kindled by the plight of Lizzie, daughter of his mistress, Caroline Graves. Despite working mornings and afternoons in his study, he found the novel 'a grinding task at which he would often stick for hours without an idea.' Caroline and Dickens would typically come in to see his 'diminutive figure staring in high-shouldered desperation out of the window.' When Dickens suggested he enliven the minor characters with whimsicality and humour, Collins did so, so brilliantly that circulation of All the Year Round promptly rose after serialisation began on 15 March, 1862. As he strove to complete the novel, Collins had to fight against gout. His physician, Henry Beard, was unable to cure him but took page after page of the novel down at his dictation. In N.P. Davis's view the 'comic exuberance' of the characters 'probably outdid anything Dickens could encompass at this time of his life' (The Life of Wilkie Collins, Urbana: 1956, p. 233). Parrish p. 45. W. COLLINS. No Name: A Drama in Four Acts. London: published by the author, 1870. 8° (178 x 109mm). Printed on rectos only. (Title thumb-soiled, page edges slightly browned.) Original blue grained cloth, title blocked in gilt on upper cover (slightly soiled), morocco-backed brown cloth case. Provenance: 'author's copy' (inscription in Collins's hand on title; his scoring out of 4 lines on p. 8). Exhibited: Grolier Club (1950s exhibition label loosely inserted). THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN PLAY FORM, dramatized by Bayle Bernard. Parrish p. 49. (4)
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