A Selection of Paintings by Henry George Hewitt HENRY GEORGE HEWITT (1864-1911) Self Portrait of the Artist, quarter-length, wearing a tie and jacket, signed with initials `H.G.H` (upper left) oil on canvas 18 x 13 1/2 in (45.7 x 34.3cm) Henry George Hewitt received his initial art instruction in Hereford before being admitted to the R.A. Schools in 1882. The Hereford Times of July 15th 1882 hailed the selection of Hewitt and fellow Hereford artist William Adams into the Royal Academy Schools that year as "an honour for the old City and will be a welcome piece of news to all who take a pride in the successful effects of local genius". His first exhibited work at the R.A. was `The Track of the Whirlwind` (1892). Later he studied under Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA at St. Johns Wood. Between 1895 and 1899 he acted as one of the principals of the St John`s Wood Art School. He later lived in Godalming and Haslemere before returning to Hereford later in his life. Provenance: (For this and the following five lots). The artist`s family by descent.
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English School, early 19th century- Portrait of Brigadier General John Harvey Yorke 1755-1805, standing full-length in full dress uniform with a canon in a landscape; oil on canvas, 91x70cm. Note: A framed letter accompanies this lot, reading as follows: "This is the Portrait of John Harvey Yorke, Who from his zeal and ability, shewn in a former conquest of The Cape of Good Hope, was selected with the rank of Brigadier General to command the Artillery in a second expedition there, in his voyage to which place, on board the King George, he was drown`d off the coast of Brazil, the 1st of November 1805, aged 50 years
John Liston Byam Shaw ARWS RI 1872-1919- "Private affection bereaves us easily of True Judgement", "Esteem not thyself better than others lest in the sight of God Thou be accounted worse than they", "There was never Saint so highly rapt Who first or last was not Tempted"; black ink and watercolour, 19x12cm., ea: together with five other drawings and watercolours by the same hand to include: "Why", pen and black ink, signed, 27x18cm; "End of Act II", set design, charcoal heightened with white on grey-brown paper, inscribed, 19x26cm; "We Fear No Thistle at The Crown", pen and brown ink, signed and dated August 1917, 21x17cm; "In Memory of Many Happy Days"; pen and brown ink, signed and dedicated, 22x34.5cm; Portrait of a man seated three-quarter length, pencil, signed, dedicated to `The Boss of the Crown and Thistle` and dated 1918, 33.5x24.5cm., (8) (part unframed)
Garstin Cox ARWA 1892-1933- Cornish wooded river landscape; oil on canvas, signed, inscribed and dated 1919, verso, 24x34cm, Note: Garstin Cox born in Camborne, Cornwall, the son of William Cox draughtsman and artist. He studied at the Camborne School of Art and also at Newlyn and St. Ives Art under John Noble Barlow 1861-1917. He was elected an Associate of the Royal West of England Academy in 1924 and a Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 1925, amongst which his friends included Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869-1955) who had a strong influence.
A Christian Dior necklet and ear clips set, the necklet with a colourless and black enamel frontispiece to a flat link back chain, signed Chr.Dior, with a pair of similar earclips signed Grosse, for the company Henkel & Grosse who made jewellery for Dior since 1955, with original Dior pouches
An Art Nouveau silver and turquoise brooch by Saunders & Shepherd, Chester 1903, the two semi circular hammered panels with radiating lines beneath set with a cabochon to each, with a joining V shape panel with a drop, 3.3cm across. This brooch shows how the influence of the new movement drew in general manufacturers to ‘jump on the bandwagon’. Even more so it shows how the German company of Murrle Bennett, who by 1903 were advertising regularly in the Studio magazine, brought Jugendstil to Britain, as this owes more to them than the ‘Style Liberty’
A German porcelain Vienna-style slender ovoid two-handled vase, painted with an oval panel of a naked figure of Clotho holding the thread of life, within an alaborate gilt border and reserved on a mottled pink/blue ground, 25cm high, blue shield mark and inscribed in iron-red Clodo, circa 1900. Note: this panel is a section taken from the painting by Friedrich Paul Thumann (1834-1908), ‘The Three Fates’, of whom Clotho, ‘the spinner’ is one. In the Greco-Roman world, the Fates were believed to hold a man’s destiny including the duration of life. In Thumann’s original, Clotho holds the thread, she is the youngest, Lachesis, who is middle aged is ‘the allotter’ and the old crone is Atropus with her shears ready to cut the thread upon the arrival of death
James Lloyd (1905-1974) A BIRD IN A BUSH signed watercolour 29 x 37cms; 11 1/2 x 14 1/2in. NB: Lloyd`s work was much admired by L.S. Lowry who in the introduction he wrote to the catalogue for an exhibition in February/March 1973 at the Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester said "I first saw the work of James Lloyd.... when I was at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, some years ago. I was shown half-a-dozen pictures and I found them most interesting and unusual. One of them, a painstaking study of a group of cows, so appealed to me that I could not resist buying it. Since that time Mr. Lloyd`s work has been widely recognised and has attracted much attention in art circles, owing to its individual style, its sincerity of approach, and its care in execution. It is the result of perceptive observation of certain everyday things which appeal to the Artist, revealed in his own personal way. His appearance as Douanier Rousseau in Ken Russell`s television film, focussed attention on the similarity of style between the two artists. Successive London shows have helped to establish his reputation". See illustration
![[BEGER, Lorenz (1653-1705).] Die über alle Tugende triumphirende Tugend der Beständigkeit. [Heidelberg or Mannheim, 1684]. 2°](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/no-image-210_468x382.jpg)
[BEGER, Lorenz (1653-1705).] Die über alle Tugende triumphirende Tugend der Beständigkeit. [Heidelberg or Mannheim, 1684]. 2° (349 x 231mm). Additional double-page engraved title, 18 double-page plates attributed to Johann Ulrich Kraus printed twice: the engraved set within the engraved border. (Title browned, repaired and laid down, a few plates with heavy ink at corners of inner engraving). 18th-century boards. Provenance: Helmstaedt, Crammer Library (early inscription) -- Heidelberg Büergermeister (ink stamp on title). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this impressive commemoration of an opera staged in the Heidelberg Castle at the Court of Carl II Elector of the Palatinate in 1684. The plates of the set design all within a wide proscenium-arch border, depict actors and dancers in elaborate costumes, some Oriental or Turkish, presumably in reference to the the 1683 battle of Vienna, that broke the advance of the Ottoman Empire into Europe. The author has been identified as the librarian, antiquarian and court poet Lorenz Beger, who served the Electors Carl Philip and Carl II. The ballet arrangements are by "Mons. Pelletier, Tanz-Meister," the music by "Hof-Musikus Hr. Joh. Henrich Christian." Berlin Katalog 4133 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Lipperheide Sbc 15 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Thieme-Becker XXI, p.441. View on Christie's.com
GÜLICH, Ludwig von. Erb-Huldigung, so... Josepho dem Ersten Von Denen gesambten Nider-Oesterreichische Ständen... an dem... 22... Septembris ... 1705 ... abgelegt. Vienna: Johann Jacob Kürner, 1705. 2° (428 x 288mm). Engraved frontispiece by Johann Andreas Pfeffel and Christian Engelbrecht after Matthias Steinl, 11 plates (one folding, 6 double-page) by Engelbrecht and Pfeffel after Johann Cyriak Hackhofer. (One double-page plate shorter.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: K.K. Geheimes Haus Archiv (ink stamp on verso of title). A brilliant example of the record of the coronation festivities in Vienna of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor on 22 September 1705. The plates by J.A. Pfeffel and C. Engelbrecht depict a procession from the palace to the Cathedral of St. Stephen (1150 mm) and various banquets. The author is one of the 'Lower Austria' delegates who participated in the banquets and is represented on plate VII. Drugulin 3744; Lipperheide Sc11; Vinet 675; Watanaba 97. View on Christie's.com
HOUWAERT, Jean Baptista (1533-99). Sommare beschrijvinghe vande triumphelijcke Incomst vanden ... Aerts-hertoge Matthias, binnen die Princelijcke stadt van Brussele. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1579. 4° (186 x 131mm). Full-page woodcut of the Archduke's coat-of-arms, full-page woodcut of his entry through the triumphal arch on the great market square, 31 full-page woodcuts by Antonij van Leest of allegorical scenes on decorated theatre stages erected in streets, 34 woodcut ornamental cartouches framing verse explications. Contemporary Southern Netherlandish gold-tooled calf (tear in spine). Provenance: Dukes of Arenberg (bookplate). Finely illustrated description in verse and prose of the politically important entry into Brussels, on 18th January 1578, of Archduke Mathias of Austria, whose invitation by the States General of the Spanish Netherlands to act as their Governor was a clear subversion of Philip II's authority. "At his Joyous Entry, which followed Roman traditions, Matthias was welcomed as the Roman hero Scipio, whose task was to protect the Netherlands and free [it] from that highly unjust and unbearable oppression of Don Juan and his adherents and also to maintain us in our liberties, rights and privileges, which we have received from our ancestors'. For the occasion twenty-four stages had been erected devoted to the presentation of classical virtues such as truth, justice, diligence, constancy, faithfulness, temperance, liberality, clemency and modesty. Matthias and Orange, who was appointed Stadtholder-General, took the oath which included the reformulated clause of disobedience. The right of resistance was now enshrined in the Joyous Entry" -- M. van Gelderen, The political thought of the Dutch revolt 1555-1590 (2002) p.138. Bibliotheca Belgica III, 533-4; Landwehr 36; Ruggieri 1055. The Arenberg copy has four other works bound with it: J.B. HOUWAERT, Milenus clachte d'Antijcke Tafereelen, Daer in men claerlijck geschildert ende beschreven siet de godloose regeringe der tirannen. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin for Willem Silvius in Leyden, 1577. 4°. FIRST EDITION. 3 large woodcuts by A. van Leest. Voet 1408B. -- De blijde ende heerlijcke Incomste van Mijnheer Franssois van Vranckrijck in Antwerpen. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1582. 4°. First Dutch edition, unillustrated, but 14 (of 21) folded etched plates inserted from the French edition. Landwehr 41. -- De Heerlicke Incomste van onsen ghenadighen Landt-Vorst, Francoys van Franckrijck in Brugge. Bruges: Thomas Moerman, 1582. 4°. FIRST EDITION. Landwehr 42. -- Corte verclaringe, ghedaen by Borgemeesteren, Schepenen ende Raedt der stadt van Antwerpen, nopende den aenslach teghen de selve stadt aengericht. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1583. 4o. Cockx-Indestege & Glorieux I, 1735. View on Christie's.com
SAINZ DE VALDIVIESO TORREJON, Miguel. Parentacion real. Luctuosa pompa. Sumptuoso cenotaphio, que Al Augusto Nombre, y Real Memoria del Serenissimo Señor Don Phelipe V. [Lima, 1748]. 4° (195 x 145mm). 2 errata leaves at end, title within ornamental border, one engraved folding plate by Juan José de Espinoza. (Lacking 3F1 & 3F2, 3E1 & 3E2 in duplicate.) Contemporary boards, original cover removed; cloth box. A description of the funeral services held in Lima for Philip V, King of Spain, who died on 9 July 1746. Palau 285547. [With:] Breve elogio y ceñida relacion de la vida, enfermedad, y muerte del serenissimo Señor Francisco Farnesio ... Septimo Duque di Parma, Placencia y Castro, &c. Madrid: for Miguèl de Rézola, 1728. 4° (201 x 150mm). Title within ornamental border, one engraved folding plate by José a Palomino after José Roman (a few tears). Contemporary limp vellum, toggle closures. An account of the funeral obsequies held in Madrid for Francesco I Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza. Palau 35294; and 6 other funeral commemorations in 5 volumes. (7) View on Christie's.com
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[ZUÑIGA, Lorenzo Bautista de]. Annales eclesiasticos i seglares de la M.N. i M.L. Cividad de Sevilla que comprehenden la Olimpiada, o Lustro de la Corte en ella. Seville: F.J. de Blas y Quesada, 1747. 2° (290 x 199mm). Engraved title by Juan Fernandez after Pedro Tortolero and 2 large folding plates by Pedro Tortolero. 19th-century marbled calf gilt, sides with the cathedral of Sevilla stamped in gold. Provenance: William Stirling (1818-78; presentation inscription from Richard Ford dated 1847, Stirling's bibliographic notes on one sheet laid in, large bookplate). VERY RARE account of the festivities surrounding the visits to Seville every four years by the Royal Court, known as the Olimpiad. The work contains the texts of pageants and poetry composed for these occasions, including bull-fights, tournaments, and other festivities. The large folding plates are by the Spanish painter and engraver Pedro Tortolero. They show Philip V, King of Spain and his court entering Seville in 1729 and the transferral of the remains of Ferdinand III (the Saint, d.1252), to their new resting-place, with the Procession passing Seville Cathedral of the same year. The authorship of the work is unclear, as the licenses are made out to Lorenzo Batista de Zuñiga, but Backer credits the work to the Jesuit author Antonio de Solis, who wrote the appendices. Backer 7:1369; Palau 11660 and 318747 (Solis). View on Christie's.com
A Designe for Plentie by an universal planting of fruit-trees. London: Richard Wodenothe, [no date, ?1652]. Small 4° (176 x 126mm). 2 woodcut headpieces, 2 ornamental initials. (Lightly browned throughout, shoulder notes shaved). Modern half calf (new endpapers). Goldsmiths' 1289; Wing H984. LAWSON, William (fl. 1618). A New Orchard and Garden: or the best way of planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole Common-Wealth. London: by William Wilson, for George Sawbridge, 1660. Small 4° (182 x 142mm). Woodcut on title, repeated on D4r, illustrations, of which 6 full-page, headpieces, initials, Country Housewifes Garden with separate title. (Some light soiling, light spotting and even browning). Late 19th-century calf-backed boards (head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). 8th edition of this popular work, first published in 1618. Wing L733; cf. Henrey 226 (1618 edition); cf. Hunt 209 (1626 edition) quotes Eleanour Rohde, who calls this work "the first book on the subject of North-Country gardens, and the Country House-Wifes Garden the first book written for women gardeners". (2) View on Christie's.com
INCUNABULA -- BOETHIUS (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. - Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1487. Chancery 2° (275 x 205mm). Engraving of a classical scene mounted on front flyleaf. Text with commentary surround, gothic type. Rubricated in blue and red. Two sets of pinholes visible. (Without first and final blank leaf, M7 lower margin replaced.) Modern three quarter burgundy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, red edges. Provenance: Sheen, Carthusian monastery (19th-century inscription). One of the relatively few dated books printed by Johannes de Westphalia, a printer who not only catered to a university readership at Louvain, but is also documented as importing books to England in the 1480s. A clean, wide-margined copy. HC *3379; GW 4538; BSB-Ink B-602; Goff B-782. Not in BL. View on Christie's.com
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MAIER, Michael (1568?-1622). Lusus Serius. Oppenheim: L. Jennis, 1616 [bound with:] Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum septem, seu metallorum. Oppenheim: J.T. de Bry, 1618. 2 works in one, small 4° (186 x 150mm). Engraved vignette to title and woodcut tailpiece to first work; second work with engraved border to title, and 7 large text-engravings. (Occasional very light spotting and browning.) Slightly later cream paper-covered boards (small chip to head of spine, spine darkened, a little bumped and rubbed). FIRST EDITIONS of two of Maier's classic alchemical and emblematic works. The Viatorium concerns the seven metals and their corresponding planets, represented on the engraved title-page. In 1609 Maier became court physician to Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia, who held him in high esteem and himself had a direct interest in the occult). Between 1611-1616, the alchemist spent time in England at the court of James I, and his writings later found favour with Elias Ashmole and Isaac Newton. RARE. Caillet III 6996 & 7005; Duveen (omitting first work) 382; Ferguson II, 63 & 65. View on Christie's.com
RALFE, James (fl. 1820-1829). An album of plates from The Naval Chronology of Great Britain ... from the Commencement of the War in 1803, to 1816. London: L. Harrison for Whitmore and Fenn, 1820. 2° (285 x 220mm). 30 (of 60) hand-coloured and tinted aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, F.C. Lewis, and others after T. Whitcombe, J. Beresford, and others. (Some light marginal soiling.) 19th-century half sheep (worn). FULL-MARGINED PLATES COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Tooley notes that 'genuine coloured copies are rare'; they are distinguished from copies coloured later by the head-line captions printed in blue rather than black. The plates are normally heavily cut-down when bound with the octavo text; the Abbey copy is described as uncut but measuring only 256x175mm. The plates are based on drawings made by officers who participated in the action shown. Tooley 392; Abbey, Life, 342; Sabin 67602. View on Christie's.com
BEDWELL, William (1563-1632, editor). The Turnament of Tottenham ... written long since in verse by Mr. Gilbert Pilkington ... taken out of an ancient manuscript ... by Wilhlm [sic] Bedwell. - BEDWELL, W. A Briefe Description of the Towne of Tottenham High-Crosse in Middlesex. London: John Norton, 1631. 2 parts, 4° (180 x 136mm). Part one in verse, 8 blanks inserted between the two parts. (Some soiling and staining, corner of E1 torn away slightly affecting manscript notes.) Early 18th-century calf (rubbed, joints cracked). Provenance: extensive early 18th-century manuscript notes in one hand (on title verso, B1, B3, blank verso of B4, on 14 of the 16 interleaves, and in margins of the 2nd part) -- Later note on a4v concernng Thomas May -- Markham John Thorpe (two inserted letters, dated Lombard street, 4 October [18]49, referring to the present 'Tottenham manuscripts ... I consider these interesting in a much greater degree than such things usually are') -- ms glossary on end blanks -- [Henry Sotheran, printed description of the book, laid down on notepaper dated 5 June 1893 and addressed to 'Mr. Howard')]. THE EARLIEST KNOWN WORK ON TOTTENHAM published by William Bedwell, vicar of Tottenham High Cross from 1607 to his death, a prominent mathematician, translator of the Bible and arabist. The poem, a burlesque upon the old feudal custom of marrying an heiress to a knight who vanquished all his opponents, was lent by George Wither. Thomas Pilkington was in fact the transcriber not the author. THIS COPY WITH COPIOUS MANUSCRIPT NOTES, treating the tournament as factual and adding to the available information about Tottenham. The founder of Tottenham Almshouse is named as 'A Spaniard ... Belshazzer Lancez' on title verso, and the period of the tournament is said to be 'about the beginning of Edward the firsts Reign' on B1r. Reprinted in 1718. No other history of Tottenham followed until the end of the century. RARE. No sale recorded since 1980 in on-line ABPC. STC 19925; Upcott II, p. 587. View on Christie's.com
FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754). The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. London: A. Millar, 1742. 2 vols., 12° (154 x 90mm). (Occasional light soiling, vol. II without preliminary advertisement leaf.) Contemporary tree sheep (rebacked, preserving old lettering-pieces, some neat repairs to covers). Provenance: 'Wm. Cooke after 1767' (partially erased inscription on title) -- J. Wyndham (1951 inscription on front endpapers). FIRST EDITION of Fielding's 'comic romance'. The manservant Joseph is the brother of Richardson's heroine, Pamela, who herself appears in the story. Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild I, 844. (2) View on Christie's.com
JACSON, Frances Margaretta (1754-1842). Plain Sense, a Novel. London: William Lane, Minerva Press, 1795. 3 vols., 12° (169 x 103mm). Half-title in each vol. (light spotting, a few marginal tears, some mainly marginal waterstaining in vol. II, B5v-B6r of vol. II slightly soiled, some quires in vols. I and III pulled and some leaves becoming loose). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corner tips (spines worn). Provenance: [Newton Hall, Northumberland]. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S 'POPULAR FIRST NOVEL'. The two unmarried sisters, Maria and Frances, both turned to writing, partly in order to help out their brother Shallcross Jacson (d. 1821) who was 'over-fond of drink and horse-racing', Maria turning to manuals on botany and gardening, and Frances to fiction (see ODNB). Their other brother, Roger, had a son Shallcross Fitzherbert Jacson (1826-1917) who married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Cook of Newton Hall, and who inherited the house in 1856, following the death of his wife's brother, Samuel Edward Cook (later Widdrington). RARE. NO COPY IN BL and only two copies recorded in the British Isles (National Trust and private collection). Blakey, p. 172. (3) View on Christie's.com
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed ('Charles Darwin') to Baron Antonio Mendola (in Favara, Sicily), Down, 8 January 1879, thanking him for a specimen, and going on 'Your statements are so remarkable that I can assure you that no naturalist, without repeated & most careful observations with all the many chances of error avoided, would think them worthy of any consideration'; Darwin is too busy to undertake the investigation himself, 'and therefore will not trouble you to send the horn', two pages, 8vo, on a bifolium; envelope. Provenance: by descent from the recipient. Not listed by the Darwin Correspondence Project, who do however note (letter 12375) Mendola's letter to Darwin of 29 December 1879, reporting that a calf's horn buried in a field had produced roots, and that mules' hairs incubated in water come alive. View on Christie's.com
SADE, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de (1740-1814). Autograph letter signed ('Sade') to [his lawyer Gaspar-François-Xavier] Gaufridy, n.p. [Paris], 'ce vingt pluviose' [20 February 1796], drawing of a barrel of oil on the second page, 3½ pages 4to, bifolium. ON SADE'S EFFORTS TO HELP GAUFRIDY'S SON, HIS TASTE IN JAM AND HIS NEED FOR MONEY. Sade has been confined to his room for six weeks 'pour une terrible ébulition de sang et un accès de goute' and this has prevented him doing anything personally in the case of Gaufridy's son (François, who is threatened with conscription), but even if he had been active, it was best to leave it to the infinitely superior skills of his 'emissaire feminin' [his mistress, Marie-Constance Quesnet]: 'mais l'eusse je pu je ne l'aurais pas fait connaisant la maniere infiniment plus adroite et plus chaude dont les emissaires feminins, et surtout le mien se conduisent en pareil cas'. She has passed on a memorandm on the case to the relevant minister and his 'chef des bureaux'; there is hope that although 'la loi [est] contre le jeune homme' it may be possible to procure an exemption, but Gaufridy must respond quickly with the necessary documents, especially Sade he has 'une autre corde a mon arc, que je vais employer pendant ce temps la'. He goes on to acknowledge the arrival of three boxes containing 'huit pots de confitures de differentes sortes ... neuf livres de bougies, deux boites de confitures seches et deux barils d'huile', sketching a curious phenomenon involving one of the barrels of oil which has solidified, and complaining about the jam -- 'les confitures sont excellentes mais pourquoi point de chinois que j'aime a la folie, et pourquoi tant d'acide et de confitures rouge qui me sont positivement defendues par mon medecin' -- as well as about the absence of a pot of anchovies (a recurrent obsession in his letters at this time); he ends by noting six points to be dealt with in order to retrieve his financial situation, including the sale of the chateau of Mazan and of the 'debris' [of the chateau of La Coste]; he has an urgent need of 600 livres to pay the forced loan. View on Christie's.com
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letter signed to his friend, the essayist Agnes Geraldine, Lady Grove, Max Gate, 13 November 1908, 3 pages, 8vo, bifolium (some browning to first page). SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Hardy thanks Lady Grove for a copy of her work The Human Woman: 'I ... can only say that the whole is really a series of brilliant & able essays, which all who favour woman suffrage should be grateful for. I, of course, who have long held that in justice women should have votes ... have not needed convincing'; after commenting that 'perhaps it is as well' that women do not realise the ultimate effect of their gaining the vote, Hardy goes on 'the practical side of your book is not quite my department. It is more in my way to dwell upon the humour & vivacity of it as literature'. He is confined to the house with a sore throat, but hopes to see her soon. Geraldine, Lady Grove (1863-1926) 'corresponded with Hardy from 1895-1901, during which time they formed a pupil-mentor relationship' (ODNB). Hardy's late poem 'Concerning Agnes', written after her death, remembers their first meeting, 'I am stopped from hoping what I have hoped before -- Yes many a time! -- /To dance with that fair woman yet once more ...'. View on Christie's.com
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph correspondence card signed to 'Mr Monk', Max Gate, 24 December 1912, ON HIS WIFE'S DEATH, writing to express thanks for a letter of condolence, 'Mrs Hardy's death was quite unexpected by me, & the loss of her leaves a great blank in my life', one page, oblong 12mo, on a mourning card (creased at corners). Emma Hardy had died the previous month, at the age of 72, her last years marked by ill-health and estrangement from her husband, who was increasingly interested in the much younger Florence Dugdale. Her death came as a profound shock to Hardy, however, and memories of their early courtship inspired an extraordinary burst of poetic creativity, resulting in the 'Poems of 1912-13'. View on Christie's.com
[DICKENS, Charles, editor]. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by 'Boz'. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 2 volumes, 12° (199 x 124mm). Engraved portrait after J. Raven, and 12 etched plates by and after George Cruikshank. (Plates a little soiled and spotted at blank margins, title to vol. I offset, title to vol. II lightly soiled, some marginal thumb-soiling.) Publisher's pink embossed cloth, spines gilt, uncut (spines faded). FIRST EDITION. Final plate without grotesque border; the sixth plate correctly placed at p. 182 on plate list. Grimaldi's manuscript had previously been edited by Thomas Egerton Wilks who sold it to Bentley before Dickens was commissioned to re-edit it for publication. The introductory chapter revealed 'his childhood veneration for clowns and his insatiable curiosity about them' (Dickens Index p. 164). Eckel pp. 140-142; Gimbel B64. (2) View on Christie's.com
COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963). Picasso de 1916 à 1961. Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1962. 2° (374 x 275mm). Half-title, printed reproduction title handwritten by Cocteau and Picasso, text in French, signed by the artist and author in pencil on the colophon. 23 lithographs by Picasso, 8 of which full-page and 2 double-page. (Very faint minimal spotting to 2 text leaves.) Original green and grey printed wrappers, upper cover with a lithograph by Picasso complete with a cut-out profile revealing the title, the whole enclosed in a black leather-backed portfolio, lettered in gilt to spine, with slipcase (extremities lightly rubbed). FINE COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION, number 80 of the 199 copies printed on Rives rag paper. 'On the occasion of Picasso's 80th birthday, Pierre Bertrand, who was Cocteau's publisher, assembled eleven of the poet's texts which reflected his friendship for Picasso. The latter illustrated these texts with 24 lithographs, some which are drawn in a Cocteau-esque style' (Cramer). Bloch 1037-60; Cramer 117. View on Christie's.com
![BARATYNSKII, Evgenii Abramovich (1800-1844). Stikhotovoreniia. [Poems.] Moscow: Avgust Semen, 1835. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8° (21](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327622e_468x382.jpg)
BARATYNSKII, Evgenii Abramovich (1800-1844). Stikhotovoreniia. [Poems.] Moscow: Avgust Semen, 1835. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8° (210 x 130mm). With the half-titles and contents leaves. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Faint dampstain on the portrait, some spotting mostly in the margins.) 19th-century Russian half-leather, spine lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Paul M. Fekula. FIRST EDITION. The Fekula copy, complete with the portait by Skotnikov after Briulov. Baratynskii 'was a poet much admired by Pushkin, whose closest rival he was' (Fekula). V. Belinsky remarked that 'of all the poets who appeared at the same time as Pushkin, pride of place undoubtedly belongs to Baratynsky'. Fekula 4518 (this copy); Kilgour 103; Smirnov-Sokol'skii 504. View on Christie's.com
![DANILOV, Kirsha. Drevniia Rossiiskiia Stikhotvoreniia. [Ancient Russian Rhymes.] Moscow: Semen Selivanovskii, 1818. 4° (260 x](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327630e_468x382.jpg)
DANILOV, Kirsha. Drevniia Rossiiskiia Stikhotvoreniia. [Ancient Russian Rhymes.] Moscow: Semen Selivanovskii, 1818. 4° (260 x 205mm). Interleaved with blanks showing English annotations. 35 engraved headpieces of musical notation. (Faint dampstain and crease on the title.) Contemporary English half-calf (extremities rubbed, spine head chipped). Provenance: Henry Edward Fox Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester (Melbury bookplate). Second, significantly enlarged and revised edition of ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND IMPORTANT WORKS IN RUSSIAN FOLKLORE. This edition adds music and nearly 100 pages to the first of 1804 and, according to Smirnov-Sokol'skii, is the first to make apparent the full importance of the text. The original manuscript belonged to P.A. Demidov and passed to Kliucharev who published the first edition. But it was M.P. Rumiantsev who commissioned K.F. Kalaidovich to re-examine the manuscript for this more complete and more accurate edition. An excellent copy with noble provenance. Kilgour 256; Smirnov-Sokol'skii 1271 ('otlichno izdannyi tom'). View on Christie's.com
MALEVICH, Kazimir, and EL LISSITZKY. O novykh sistemakh v iskusstve: Statika i skorost. [On New Systems in Art: Statics and Speed.] Vitebsk: Art Labour Cooperative, 1919. 4° (232 x 190mm). 3 lithographs after Malevich, lithographed text throughout. (Plates bound-in at rear, faint browning, light wear to edges.) Original stapled printed wrappers (repaired loss to rear wrapper affecting part of the imprint, some spotting and soiling). FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK OF BOOK DESIGN. Produced under El Lissitzky's supervision, who designed the covers, these 'perhaps the most remarkable use of Malevich's ideas' (Compton, p.114). Karshan 27-35; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.147. View on Christie's.com
6 WWII A3 fuel economy posters: “Help Your Fuel Watcher” 2 versions “Save Fuel at Work” and “Save Power at Work”; “Save Fuel in the Kitchens” chef with list of ways to save; “Save Fuel for Battle - the Brother who turned the Gas full on”; “No More Fuel Hogs” worker banishing a pig; “Don’t leave it all to your Fuel Watcher” turning off steam taps; in 3 sleeves. VGC
6 WWII A3 posters: “Don’t be Fuel-ish - the Man who would not close the doors” and “The Man who wasted Gas”; “Back up the Fighting Forces” head and shoulders sailor, soldier and airman; “You can help to build me a Ship” head and shoulders sailor; “Keep a Pig. Join or start a Pig Club”; MOI Bulletin, text of letter from Roosevelt to Churchill Jan 20th 1941; in 3 sleeves. VGC
6 WWII A3 fuel economy posters: “Don’t be Fuel-ish” 2 versions “The Man Who Wasted Gas” and “The Man Who Wasted Power”; “Save Fuel for Battle - the Husband who wasted Hot Water”; “Help Your Fuel Watcher” at work on a lathe and “Don’t leave it all to your Fuel Watcher” turning off steam taps; “Don’t waste Here the fuel you save at Home” man at work; in 3 sleeves. VGC
6 WWII A3 fuel economy posters: “Dont be Fuel-ish” 4 versions “The Man Who Wasted Gas” overheating boiler and blazing welding torch, “The Man who would not Close the Doors” and “The Man who wasted Power”; “Save Fuel for Battle”, “Don’t Waste Here the Fuel you save at Home” man at work; in 3 sleeves. VGC
5 WWII A3 fuel economy posters: “No more Fuel Hogs” worker banishing pig; “Don’t be Fuelish - the worker who left the lights on”; “Save Fuel to make Munitions for Battle - the Wife who squandered the Electricity”; “Save Fuel in the Kitchens” chef with list of ways to save; “Help your Fuel Watcher - save power at work”; in 3 sleeves. VGC
2 WWII A1 posters: “Don’t be Fuel-ish - the Worker Who Left the lights on” shrinking worker admonished by 3 of her coleagues, by H M Bateman (folding creases) and “Don’t waste here the Fuel you save at Home” showing worker altering slogan “It doesn’t matter, the Firm pays for it” to read “It DOES matter, the COUNTRY pays for it” by Fougasse; in a sleeve. GC (folding creases.
2 WWII A1 posters “Lubricating Oil is imported in Tankers - no economy is too small to count”, featuring tanker and tank with connecting fuel line; “Don’t waste oil - The Man who wasted Precious Oil!” standing disconsolate in a pool of oil between lines of glaring fellow workers, by H M Bateman; in a sleeve. Near VGC (minor folding creases). First item Plate 9
An interesting souvenir photograph album from the Zeebrugge Museum, c 1920s, containing 35 photographs, showing attacks on merchant shipping by German U Boats, the “hideous” crew of a German submarine, aerial view of a Zeppelin shot down in the North Sea, German submarine pens at Bruges, the Kaiser at Bruges, submarine base officers etc, all taken from originals kept at great peril by a Bruges photographer who developed the photographs for the Germans, with printed information sheet in the back. GC
CHELSEA POSTERS Five Chelsea away match posters at Feyenoord, OBS, Hofors AIF ( tears to edges), Angermanland ( large tear)and IFK Mariehamn. Despite the faults three at least can be framed and the other two can be repaired, a few folds but these are original match posters "Retrieved" by a Chelsea fan who went to the game, They have been attached to walls before so there are small tears at some corners. Various sizes, smallest is 35cm x 17cm, larger ones are approx 60cm x 45 cm. As described
1960 EUROPEAN CUP FINAL TICKET Scarce ticket for the famous 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Real Madrid defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3. This scarce ticket is even more unusual because it is complete with counterfoil. The father of the vendor who bought the ticket could not attend due to work commitments and the ticket, for the East Terracing, was never used. The ticket has some ageing and a fold, but condition is fair-generally good, it is complete and does not have any writing. Fair-generally good
WALSALL / ARSENAL Official programme for Walsall v Arsenal, 14/1/1933, Walsall provided an almighty upset by defeating First Division Champions elect Arsenal who had three players making their only appearance ever for the Arsenal first team. Third Division North Walsall won the game 2-0. This programme has had expert repairs to the cover and the spine re-attached but the repairs are good and internal pages are fine with no writing, minor fold and slightly rusting staple. As described
*A pair of Edwardian shaped oval pedestal baskets by Charles Stuart Harris, London 1904, with cast scroll foliate and flower rims, pierced and floral embossed bowls and on conforming shaped oval bases, engraved with an armorial, 25.5cm (10in) wide, 994g (31.9 oz) The arms for a nobleman of a European country who was given the additional title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
A military general service medal dated 1847 awarded to John Cleale of the 87th Foot with bars for Pyrenees, Vittoria and Barrosa. The 87th Foot later to become The Royal Irish Fusiliers, were famous at The Battle of Barrosa when Sergeant Patrick Masterston captured the first French eagle to be taken in battle by a British regiment, the 87th following the battle were recommended to The Prince Regent who awarded them the title of Prince of Wales Own Irish Regiment and directed that they wear an eagle on their colours and appointments. This action may have been used by the author Bernard Cornwell as inspiration for his Sharpe novels.
A Nazi Germany WWII Employee & Worker Faithful Service medal, the medal in the form of a silver cross with an enamelled swastika in the centre surmounted by the numbers 50 surrounded by gilt oak leaves suspended on a blue ribbon together with original case of issue by Deschler & Sohn München. This medal was issued for faithful services of employees of private firms who worked for the same concern for a period of 50 years or more.
A Charles II English provincial (probably Cornish) silver beaker, maker’s mark ‘MV’ conjoined (twice), an animal’s head erased (twice), circa 1684, engraved with a border of chevrons with pendant leaves, on a moulded foot, pricked ‘S’ over ‘RE’ over ‘1684’, later engraved a script ‘H’, 8 cm (3.25 in) high, 102 g (3.3 oz). Literature: Jackson, 3rd edition, p.325. Provenance: Brand Inglis, who provides a convincing argument for attribution to a maker with the surname Vivian from the Wadebridge/ Padstow area, typed sheet sold with the lot Condition report** In good condition overall.
An early 19th century deer slot snuff mull set with a George III crown to the hinged horn lid and inscribed "Marquess of Anglesey Waterloo 1815", and with handwritten label inscribed "19th century horn snuff mull inscribed Marquess of Anglesey Waterloo 1815 claimed to be from a deer`s hoof from the estate of Lord Uxbridge (Marquess of Anglesey) who fought at Waterloo", 9.8 cm long
Theatre – Gilbert and Sullivan a rare copy of ‘My Goodness My Gilbert and Sullivan’ a promotional brochure issued by the Guinness company to Doctors’ Surgeries in 1961. Printed in colour on 16pp 4to each page featuring a cartoon of a famous G&S opera character with verses from the operetta in question changed to form a promotional message in favour of the supposed health benefits of Guinness. In the early 1960s the general feeling was the drinking stout was good for you and this was a message which Guinness were eager to exploit with this extremely rare promotion towards Doctors – who today might be horrified to think of the medical profession being persuaded to encourage people to drink alcohol – but times change. In near mint condition
Ephemera – advertising fine broadside issued by W Tayler and T Newton printers’ agents no date but early 19th c advertising all the newspapers who accept advertisements booked through the firm. Printed on one side of a single leaf of paper approx 25x20 ins in good fresh condition. Designed to be displayed on a counting house wall.
Ephemera – comics The Magnet carton containing a large qty of editions of ‘The Magnet – Billy Bunter’s Own Paper’ c1930s fairly good condition throughout together with a further qty of modern reprints.Very un-PC by today’s standards the adventures of Billy Bunter – the impecunious fat boy who was always expecting a postal order to relieve his financial difficulties at Greyfriar’s public school and his equally stereo-typical pals enthralled generations of boys throughout the 30s and beyond. Bunter was the creation of Frank Richards and the Magnet was an extremely successful publication at the time – spawning many novels and eventually a television series in the 1950s. Material of this nature could not be published today !
Maritime – Mauritius remarkable manuscript dated Melville In Port Louis Mauritius June 4th 1833 5pp folio with further ms diagram on a single leaf folio being orders for an attack on rebel forces on Mauritius : ‘...the boats with guns are to form in line abreast to the Southward of the Melville along the transporting buoys and the boats without guns but fitted with small arm men in a second line to the southward of those with guns in the first line are to be all the marines. ‘When these lines are formed they are to advance towards Coopers Island under cover of the Melville’s and Talbot’s fire and their own guns and on reaching the beach the marines and seamen are to land in as much order and as quickly as possible to form on the each and when ready to rush up the green bank where they must expect the enemy to oppose them and act accordingly...’ These appear to be the plan of attack against the armed Mauritius islanders who had been ordered by the Governor to disarm. In the event the plan was not needed as the island was returned to calm. Original battle plans such as this are rare on the market.
Shipwreck two ms documents relating to a treasure trove case concerning the salvage of a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast dated 1798. The case was between the Duke of Northumberland who thought that the salvaging rights was his and Ralph Sanderson a tenant of the Earl of Lisburne at Swinhoe who also made claim to the wreck. Sanderson had apparently taken away the ship’s mast (value 5 pounds) and the Duke wanted it back – he obviously won.
Ephemera – Election Notice for the Lindsey Division in North Yorkshire dated 1832 issued as an open letter to the ‘Dependent Electors’ ie those who owed their livelihoods and homes to the patronage of one of the candidates – in this case Sir William Ingelby. Printed on a single leaf of paper approx 13x8 ins in fine condition. Together with another notice issued for the same election
Civil War – passport – deed of banishment by Oliver Cromwell remarkable ms document being an obligation bond for William Frankland of Ellerton (N Yorks) dated July 18th 1656 written in English on a single page folio signed by Frankland and various witnesses to base. Frankland agrees by this document to pay the sum of 1000 pounds (say 1million in today’s money) as a bond to ensure that he has the liberty to ‘passe beyond the seas’ and that ‘he depart from ye Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging & doe not returne into any of them without licence first obtained from his Highnesse the Lord Protector (ie Cromwell) & the Councill and doe not either before or after his departure art or consent to arting of anything injudicial or against the son of his Highnesse nor the Commonwealthe...’ This document seems to act a dual purpose – in the first instance it is a very early example of a kind of passport – providing Frankland with safe passage beyond the seas. On another level it is also a deed of banishment ensuring that he gets out of the country and does not return. We have had considerable difficulty in pinpointing the identity of Frankland which seemed initially curious. He was obviously considered too dangerous to be allowed to stay in the Commonwealth which suggests immediately that he was a leading Royalist. However he was clearly evading punishment or execution and this document points to some sort of political ‘deal’ whereby he agrees to leave the country but still has his head intact ! Records show that there was a Sir William Frankland 1st Baronet who was created as such in 1660 – the year of the Restoration of Charles II. He was described as from Thirkelby North Yorks and he went on to be a long serving MP for Thirsk. There is every possibility that the two are the same. This document also seems to suggest that Frankland may have been involved in some sort of violent conduct by this curious reference to his agreement not to do anything injurious to Cromwell’s son. This is possibly a reference to Henry Cromwell a General in the New Model Army and by this time Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. If this is the case then it would seem that Frankland was too much of a threat to be allowed to remain in the Commonwealth but too important to be dealt with by punishment imprisonment or execution. It may be that Frankland was one of many Royalists who rallied to the edicts of the exiled Charles II to raise troops to fight against the Parliamentary forces. The fact that he received a hereditary title only a few months after Charles had been restored to the throne suggests that he was certainly rewarded for his services to the exiled King. Together with a ms family pedigree with a note relating to this document and the comment, even then that : ‘[this] is all we know of said Wm Frankland’. There is also the ms will of an Anthony Frankland dated 1714 – he appears to be a great grandson of William.
Mosley and the British fascists The Jews’ Who Who published by the Judaic Publishing Co 1920. 8vo 255pp orange boards a little distressed interior contents generally unblemished though the first two pages are fixed with adhesive tape (which should be professionally removed). Stamps of the Britons Publishing Society Library and bookplate of Jane Patterson to rear. The book lists a considerable number of leading Jewish people with their estimated assets and of course nasty remarks about them the association some of them had with the Kaiser’s Jubilee Fund in 1913. This latter reference provides an interesting insight into how ‘facts’ can be manipulated into political propaganda. At the time the Jubilee Fund was set up Britain was not at war with Germany and of course the Kaiser had considerable British links being the grandson of Queen Victoria and thereby cousin of George V. Coming in for specific vilification in this book is Sir Edgar Speyer who it states was worth just over 13million in 1920.
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