Henry Shaw Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Henry Shaw Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 31, 2024
Shaw (Henry) Alphabets, Numerals and Devices of the Middle Age, chromolithographed plates, 1845 & others on medieval art (c.30)
Est: £200 - £300
Shaw (Henry) Alphabets, Numerals and Devices of the Middle Ages, 48 engraved or lithographed plates, some chromolithographed, some finished by hand, original morocco-backed cloth, 1845 § Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient & Medieval Rings and Personal Ornaments formed for Lady Londesborough, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary half calf, original printed upper wrapper with inscription "From Lord Londesborough" bound in, privately printed, 1853 § Fairholt (F.W.) & Thomas Wright. Miscellanea Graphica: Representations of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Remains in the Possession of Lord Londesborough, engraved frontispiece & additional pictorial title with hand-coloured vignette, 44 lithographed plates, some chromolithographed and heightened with gold, later half morocco, by F.Garrett of Birmingham, 1857 § Davillier (Ch.) Recherches sur l'Orfévrerie en Espagne au Moyen Age et a la Renaisssance, one of 500 copies, 19 engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, Paris, 1879, plates & illustrations, all Birmingham Assay Office library copies with small ink stamp to front free endpaper but no other stamps, a little rubbed; and c.25 others on medieval art, v.s. (c.30)
Forum Auctions - UK
Oct. 31, 2024
Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol., hand-coloured plates, William Pickering, 1843 & others (4)
Est: £400 - £600
Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol., first edition in book form, additional pictorial title and 93 plates, most hand-coloured engravings, a few heightened with gold or gum arabic, 2 double-page, illustrations and decorative initials, many printed in colours from woodblocks, occasional foxing but plates generally clean, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rebacked in calf preserving part of old spines, William Pickering, 1843 § Pugin (Augustus Welby) Specimens of Gothic Architecture, 2 vol., additional colour titles, plates, original cloth, very slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, 1895, 4to (4) *** The first was "Shaw's most ambitious work...showing paintings, miniatures, stained glass, furnishings, glasses, chests, vestments, gold cups, jewellery, etc. etc....hand-coloured in the most sumptuous way...It has a considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole of the nineteenth century...". (Ruari McLean. Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p.66)
Forum Auctions - UK
Sep. 05, 2024
Wells Cathedral.- Shaw (Henry, antiquary) Autograph Letter signed to John Britton, 1823, making drawings of Wells Cathedral for John Britton's Cathedral Antiquities.
Est: £200 - £300
Wells Cathedral.- Shaw (Henry, antiquary and illuminator, 1800-73) Autograph Letter signed to John Britton, 2pp, with conjugate blank and address panel, sm. 4to, Wells, 5th September 1823, making drawings of Wells Cathedral for John Britton's Cathedral Antiquities, "I received the Parcel containing the sketches to yesterday morning. I shall proceed with them as fast as possible - The West front I have drawn the full size of the Drawing board... as you desired, taking my station immediately opposite the centre at the farther end of the Church yard so as to take in the principal Tower - do you intend this... be reduced for Mr Le Keux?, three small water-stains, slightly browned, folds. *** "A precocious architectural draughtsman, [Shaw] published details of ornament from English medieval churches in 1823 (A Series of Details of Gothic Architecture) and supplied John Britton with drawings of Wells Cathedral for plates dated 1824 and 1825 included in the fourth volume of Cathedral Antiquities, eventually published as a series in 1836; Shaw's view of the interior was remembered as 'one of the best plates' (Britton, 2.134)." - Oxford DNB.
Forum Auctions - UK
Jun. 04, 2024
Shaw, Henry:
Est: £50 - £80
Shaw, Henry: Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. In 24 original parts in original wrappers. Pickering, 1840-43, 1st. Edn. All plates are present, as called for. The wrappers of first and last parts are detached. The whole is now housed in a slipcase Provenance: Anne F Sutton's collection, most with her bookplate.
Sworders
Aug. 25, 2021
HENRY SHAW BRIGGS
Est: $140 - $200
(1824 – 1887) Union brigadier general, colonel and first commander of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers. Seriously wounded during the Battle of Fair Oaks. Good content war-date A.L.S. 'Your Huusband' but also writing 'Mrs. H. S. Briggs' directly beneath, 1p. 4to., Maryland Heights, Oh., July 8, 1863 to his wife. In part: '...We got here at nightfall last night...Gen. Kenley's Brigade arrived before me and drove away the Bushwhackers of whom there were considerable numbers here and across the river...This is not a desirable position...I try to & do think it is just the place for me else the Great King and Good Father would not have ordered me here...' Very good.
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Nov. 25, 2020
Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol. bound in 1, 1843.
Est: £200 - £300
Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol. bound in 1, 94 colour plates, many finished by hand or heightened with gilt, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, cracked upper hinge, bookplates, modern morocco, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1843.
Forum Auctions - UK
Feb. 14, 2018
Shaw, Henry
Est: £300 - £400
Shaw, Henry Specimens of Tile Pavements drawn from existing authorities. London: Basil M. Pickering, 1858. First edition, 4to, 47 chromolithographed plates, plates numbered neatly in upper right corner, original morocco-backed boards, gutta - percha binding perished and contents loose, spine worn with loss at head and base, rare
Lyon & Turnbull
Jul. 26, 2017
SHAW, Henry (1800-89). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. London: William Pickering, 1843. 2 volumes, folio. 94 engraved plates (mostly colour). (Occasional light spotting, one or two tears without loss). Contemporary red roan with marbled boards (heavily rubbed). With Henry SHAW's Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1851. Folio. 41 engraved plates (some in colour). (Occasional light spotting and one or two tears without loss). Contemporary red roan (rubbed). (3)
Est: £150 - £250
SHAW, Henry (1800-89). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. London: William Pickering, 1843. 2 volumes, folio. 94 engraved plates (mostly colour). (Occasional light spotting, one or two tears without loss). Contemporary red roan with marbled boards (heavily rubbed). With Henry SHAW's Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1851. Folio. 41 engraved plates (some in colour). (Occasional light spotting and one or two tears without loss). Contemporary red roan (rubbed). (3)
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 02, 2015
Shaw, Henry
Est: £100 - £150
Shaw, Henry Specimens of ancient furniture. [London: W. Pickering, 1836]. 4to, 63 (of 73) plates, 11 hand-coloured, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, lacking title and text, slightly spotted
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 02, 2015
Shaw, Henry
Est: £200 - £250
Shaw, Henry Specimens of ancient furniture. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. 4to, additional hand-coloured lithographed title and 73 lithographed plates, 11 hand-coloured, [6], 57; modern brown cloth, black morocco gilt label
Lyon & Turnbull
Apr. 10, 2014
Shaw, Henry: Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages
Est: €200 - €300
Shaw, Henry. Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages from the seventh to the seventeenth century. 2 Bände. Mit koloriertem lithographischen Titel, 93 meist kolorierten oder farbigen lithographischen Tafeln und zahlreichen Texillustrationen. 29 x 20,5 cm. Marmorierte HLederbände d. Z. (berieben, mit leichten Schabspuren) mit reicher RVergoldung und 2 goldgeprägten RSchildern. London, William Pickering, 1843. Lipperheide Ca 9. Brunet V, 363f. Colas 2720. Graesse VI/1, 394. Hiler 796. - Erste Buchausgabe der prachtvollen, seit 1840 in Lieferungen erschienenen Publikation. "It has considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole nineteenth century" (McLean). - Fliegender Vorsatz in Band I lose, kolorierter Titel im Bug lädiert. Vereinzelte Flecken, die Tafeln in leuchtendem Kolorit.
Bassenge Auctions
Jun. 25, 2013
SHAW (HENRY)
Est: £300 - £500
The Decorative Arts ... of the Middle Ages, 41 plates (23 chromolithographed), occasional spotting, modern half morocco, 1851--KIDD (JOHN) On the Adaption of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 1837--HUNTER (JOSEPH) The Hallamshire Glossary, 1829--[BOTFIELD (BERIAH, editor)] Bibliotheca Hearneiana. Excerpts From the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Hearne, half-title, engraved frontispiece, modern cloth, 1848--FOSTER (B.) History of Ye Priory and Gate of St. John, pictorial title, [c.1851]--DOUCE (FRANCIS) The Dance of Death, wood-engraved frontispiece, joint split at title, 1833--[?CORNWALLIS (CAROLINE FRANCIS)] On the Principles of Criminal Law, 1846, publisher's cloth, 8vo and small 4to unless otherwise stated, William Pickering; and 14 others (21)
Bonhams
Apr. 20, 2011
Eight Various Prints Relating To Arms And Armour
Est: £150 - £250
Comprising Claude Simonin, A gunsmith's design for a flintlock firearm, signed G. La Feuille Excudit, no. 7 of seven engraved plates, Paris, 1684; E. Piper, Steel Cuisse L. 19 in. W. 6½ in. 402-1864 [in the Victoria and Albert Museum], etching on wove; Henry Shaw (1800-1873), Francis 1st on horseback, engraving on wove, mid-19th century; Edward Corbould (1815-1905), The Joust between the Lord of the Tournament & The Knight of the Red Rose, lithograph on wove, printed by Day and Haghe, 1839; H. Melville after B. Sly, Tower of London, The Norman Armoury (bottom edge torn), steel engraving, circa 1845; Sutherland after Rowlandson and Pugin, Horse Armoury, Tower, hand-coloured steel engraving, 1809'; after Albrecht Durer, Man in Gothic armour on horseback, reproduction of the original 1498 water-colour, on wove; and Thomas H. Shepherd (1793-1864), Piccadilly from Covent Garden [showing Joseph Egg's shop at 1 Piccadilly], hand-coloured steel engraving (some foxing), published by Jones & Co., circa 1830 (8) 21.4 cm. x 14 cm. to 41 cm. x 31 cm. (mostly framed and glazed)
Bonhams
Nov. 14, 2010
Shaw, Henry (1800-1873), The Encyclopaedia of Ornament, London: William Pickering, 1842, with engraved title page and fifty-nine pla...
Est: $300 - $400
Shaw, Henry (1800-1873), The Encyclopaedia of Ornament, London: William Pickering, 1842, with engraved title page and fifty-nine plates, a few in color, half morocco, 4to, (rebound, shelf wear to boards, scattered spotting, dampstaining to lower edge at latter quarter of pages).
Skinner
Mar. 16, 2006
SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: William
Est: £500 - £800
SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1843. 2 volumes, 4° (367 x 256mm). Additional title in volume I printed in colour and 93 engraved plates, hand-coloured, printed in colour or tinted, numerous illustrations, vignettes and initials printed in colour (occasional foxing, mostly in text leaves, some light offsetting). Contemporary green morocco by Wheeler, spines ornately gilt in compartments, 4 decorative borders forming one wide border round sides, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: James Banks Stanhope (armorial bookplate). LARGE PAPER COPY. Colas 2720; Lipperheide 325. (2)
Christie's
Nov. 05, 2003
[ Books ] Shaw, Henry (1800-1873), & James Ingram, The History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park A Seat of The Most Honourable the Marquess of Bute, Meticulously drawn illustrations of the richly carved woodwork in the chapel built at Luton
Est: £300 - £500
[ Books ] Shaw, Henry (1800-1873), & James Ingram, The History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park A Seat of The Most Honourable the Marquess of Bute, Meticulously drawn illustrations of the richly carved woodwork in the chapel built at Luton Park (better known as Luton Hoo) by Sir Robert Napier som (see illustration)
Dreweatts 1759