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Lot 848
A large collection of Georgian English leather-bound sporting books, late-18th to early-19th Century, dealing with boxing, hare coursing, fishing, archery, fox hunting, dogs, bear hunting, coaching, cockfighting etc: 'The Sporting Magazine; Or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, And every other Diversion Interesting to The Man of Pleasure and Enterprize'. 53 volumes in total; volumes I to 38 in a uniform binding (octavo half-calf and marbled board), dating from 1793 to 1811, lacking Vol.II and Vol.XXX, duplicate of Vol.XXIV; volumes 48 to 63 in another uniform binding (octavo calf with black title labels and marbled endpapers/all page edges), dating from 1816 to 1824. (53)
Lot 5
Alken (Henry) The National Sports of Great Britain, large paper copy, 50 fine hand-coloured soft-ground etchings by and after Alken, tissue guards, 2 preliminary leaves and first plate ('The Race Horse') torn across and neatly repaired, some light spotting or soiling, mostly marginal, modern half red morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label, by Bernard Middleton 2011, [cf. Tooley 43, 8vo edition], folio, Thomas M'Lean, 1825 [text watermarked 1822, plates 1822-25]. ⁂ Very rare large paper copy of the first edition with these plates. A previous work was published under the same title in 1821 but contained different plates and those were aquatints. It is more usually found in Royal 8vo format. The work includes scenes of horse-racing, hunting, coursing, shooting, angling, dog-fighting, cock-fighting, and bull-, bear- & badger-baiting, but is notable for Alken's preface which condemns the baiting of animals, depicted in the last few plates. The only plate not including animals is of prize-fighting.
Lot 54
THREE ROYALE STRATFORD STIRRUP CUPS, seconds, in the form of a brown bear, West Highland Terrier and a Jack Russell, together with two other porcelain stirrup cups in the form of a Fox and a Foxhound, approximate max length 13.5cm (5)condition: As per description the three Stratford models are seconds quality but free from chips, cracks or restoration, foxhound is ok but the white glazed fox has a firing fault to the interior of the neck.
Lot 237
A LARGE WORN GOLDEN PLUSH TEDDY BEAR, vertical stitched nose, missing both eyes (one replaced with a button), jointed woodwool filled body, damage to one arm, one ear hanging off, has original damaged cloth pads with four claws to hands and three to feet, has some wear, fading and fur loss to body, no makers marking or label, height approximately 70cm
Lot 233
A MERRYTHOUGHT GOLDEN PLUSH TEDDY BEAR, with growler and bib marked 'I Growl', jointed body, brushed cloth pads (some marking and wear) label to side seam and right foot pad, height approximately 48cm, with a similar smaller example, brushed nylon pads, no growler, damaged label to left foot pad, height approximately 42cm, both c.1970's (2)
Lot 49
A LATE VICTORIAN MAJOLICA JUG, in the form of a seated brown bear, holding a drum and beaters behind his head, possibly by Joseph Holdcroft, impressed '60' to base, hairline to drum, height approximately 23.5cmcondition: There are two cracks in the drum, the bears right ear has an area where the glaze is missing, the nose has an area that is also missing some glaze
Lot 236
A SHORT HAIRED TEDDY BEAR, plastic eyes (s.d.), horizontal stitched nose, s.d. to mouth, jointed woodwool filled body, cloth hand pads and felt foot pads (s.d.), all with three claws, some fur loss/wear, no makers marking or labels, non working growler loose inside body, height approximately 28cm
Lot 234
A GABRIELLE DESIGNS PADDINGTON BEAR, red duffle coat (some fading), blue wellingtons (later versions marked PB with the paw print tread), missing hat, complete with card label, Gabrielle Designs label to back seam and swing tag in pocket, height approximately 48cm, with a Merrythought Gorilla, black plush, velvet face, ears, hands and feet, Merrythought label to right foot and side seam, height approximately 49cm (2)
Lot 32
1- RUPERT BEAR: 3 Titles, plus a duplicate: More Rupert Adventures; The Daily Express, n.d. inscribed 1943; 3s. 6d. original wrappers; VG+; The New Rupert Book; The Daily Express, n.d. inscribed 1946; 3s. 6d. (The first story is Rupert On Coon Island); original wrappers; VG+; Another Copy; VG; Rupert and the Snow Sports; The Daily Express, n.d. (1s.) original wrappers; VG+; 2- Two Mickey Mouse Annuals: Mickey Mouse Fiddling around; Dean & Son, n.d. inscribed 1930. First edition of the first annual to be published in the U.K. With 4 colour plates. Original pictorial covers; rubbed, with chips and tears; Laugh at us and with us in Mickey Mouse annual. Dean & Son, n.d. Early annual; with colour frontis. . Original pictorial covers; rubbed, with chips and tears. (6)
Lot 122
TV & SCI-FI ANNUALS - 83 annuals from 60's to 80's to include classic programmes such as Yogi Bear, Phantom, Jonny Quest, Space Family Robinson, Outer LImits, Land of The Giants, Z Cars, Might Mouse, Flash Gordon, Top Cat, Flintstones, Six Million Dollar Man, Tarzan and many more. All appear in excellent condition.
Lot 1087
§ Austin Osman Spare (1888-1956)pencil and coloured pencils on thin wove paper'Threshold: Quasi-automatic drawings. 1944-1945' title page in the original album with attached note '35 drawings by A.O.S. Bought for £15. Nov 15th 1945 through Hannen Swaffer'8 x 13in.LOTS 1087 - 1115 FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN EASTBOURNEAn introduction by Dr William Wallace, an acknowledged authority on the life and work of the artist and author of The Catalpa Monographs: A Critical Survey of the Art and Writings of Austin Osman Spare - Jerusalem Press, 2015AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1886-1956)SKETCHBOOK OF 35 DRAWINGSThe suite of fine drawings by Spare offered here for sale represent sketchbook works but of accomplished presentation drawing standard, and represent one of his usages for this medium, permitting his inspiration to unspool sequentially onto the pages from his restlessly combinatory imagination.He is unusual amongst artists, in that he was prepared to sell his sketchbooks; these are usually retained by artists as containing germinal ideas for more resolved works. Whilst Spare also did this he was not possessive about them, and at times they were extensions of his own published occult-philosophical works. Good, early examples include the exquisite mystical bookworks in ink and watercolour The Focus of Life & The Papyrus of Amen-AOS (1905-6) and The Arcana of AOS & the Consciousness of Kia-Ra (1906), developing ideas from his first published book Earth:Inferno (1905), both sold to his friend and mentor, the avid collector, Pickford Waller (1873-1927), possibly in the hope of publication. This was only realized in 2011 as Two Grimoires which succinctly conveys their magical nature. The title The Focus of Life would be invoked again by Spare for his published oneiric odyssey and masterwork of 1921Spare was again selling sketchbooks by 1924, and again to Waller with Satyros at Stroud, a mythologised vision of the Gloucestershire landscape in pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour, produced on holiday far from the fleshpots of the Boro'; 'Satyros' being one of the artist's alter-egos. His accompanying letter to Waller is upbeat, Spare having been bucked by the sale of four drawings to Lord Leverhulme. Two other sketchbooks of that year have since been part-published, the sublime Ugly Ecstasy, with its grotesque, Baudelairean vision of beauty, bought by Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1976), and The Valley of Fear: Metamorphosis, with its Sherlockian title (Spare loved detective stories), another Waller acquisition. Another, (1925;published 1972), A Book of Automatic Drawings, is actually quasi-automatic, with more finely finished grotesquerieOverall, the sketchbooks vary, from the type of fluent ludic outpourings of the automatics, to finely finished sequences verging on discreet narrative as in an unfolding journey, to more didactic sketchbooks intended as instructive for students of his Austin Osman Spare School of Draughtsmanship. Others contain preparatory drawings for larger pastel paintings and other work, and even, as with one owned by his great friend and amanuensis Frank Letchford (1916-1998), a combined sketch/scrapbook with pieces collaged over full-paged drawings of c.1954Several notable sketchbooks, including types (drawings) here offered at auction were produced whilst the artist was "fire-spotting" for flying bombs over his beloved Southwark. One such, (recently published) consists of 24 highly finished drawings, entitled: Adventures in Limbo, obliquely recalling the Dantean influence of the 1905 Earth:Inferno. Spare, like Blake, viewed London as both (literally and metaphorically) as both concrete and spiritualised as well as charged with mystery. In Dante's Limbo, the poet in wonder sees the noble pagans later revered by Spare: Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Democritus, Diogenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Thales, Zeno (of Cittium), and Dioscorides. The artist was to reveal tellingly in his 'Mansion House' pub show catalogue (1952) that his sketchbooks for sale (items 101-111) are titled Cacoethes Scribendi. These range from12 to 48 drawings priced from £2 10s to £8.00. He describes them thus:Cacoethes scribendi: Twelve sketchbooks of original ideas. A work of art often owes its virtue to omission as well as revision or consummation; yet equally (if not more so), the uninhibited nature of the contents of artist's scribbling books are instructive, potent and stimulating, because they show the creative faculty in unhindered operation, and the underlying ideas motivating the artist are in some measure revealed. Those purchasing these sketchbooks obtain therewith both the copyright and my permission to exploit any of the ideas as their ownThe 153 exhibition at 'The White bear' tavern offered "sketchbooks by request" (items 141-2) One of these, from Letchford's collection (No5) of twelve drawings features Witches Sabbath scenes, and one drawing is of three plinthed satiric heads labelled 'Carus Lucretius', 'Apuleius', and 'Zeno of Elea', there is a distinct whiff of Faustian brimstone. Several drawings in this book were developed; one, into an ink drawing on wood: 'Evocation by Acrobatics' appeared in Spare's last show- at the Archer Gallery in 1955 (no 139). Conversely, one drawing is a version of 'These are the Women' (minus the anthropomorphic tree) which had been shown at 'The Mansion House' pub in 1952, although the title occurred at Spare's "Home Show" of 1936 (no 8). Another book owned by Letchford is a mix, starting with a list of titles for his last exhibition and several preparatory sketches, such as 'Ghosts are Sidereal' (no 45) alluding to Spare's method of anamorphic distortion, and part of the 'Ghosts I Have Seen' series.Sketchbooks in the Bower-Dalton collection reflect their diversity. Spare has used an autograph book for his mainly satyrized heads and titled it A Book of Satyrs (after his second published book of 1907). The 29 drawings probably capture the mythologised heads of ARP, AFS and ambulance personnel, again whilst on fire-watching duty, capturing the denizens of the wartime blackout Inferno. Another in the same collection is titled Static Alignments (1944-5) comprising twenty demonstration drawings for students. Another of 1944: Ideas and Transcriptions From Life: Drawn for Students was presented after the war, to Frank Letchford, displaying a variety of experimental stylesThe title Cacoethes Scribendi of 1952 for his sketchbooks provides a clue to Spare's motives. The term originates (typically) with a satirist, Juvenal (late 1st-2nd c AD), who refers in Book III (7th Satire) to: "insanibile scribendi cacoethes" an incurable passion for writing (drawing in Spare's case), as almost a pathological compulsion. Again, the classical world collides with London, with Juvenal's influence on Sam Johnson (1709-1784), in his London of 1738. The phrase also occurs in a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), the first line reading: "If all the trees in all the woods were men". In fact, Spare does sometimes present trees in anthropomorphic form. The present sketchbook drawings reveal a glimpse into the mind and soul of an extraordinary artistDr William Wallace: August 2017Gorringe's are grateful to Dr Wallace for providing this learned overview
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