PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, 20 copies, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, FINE COPIES (2 spines slightly faded and toned, short tear to extremity of 5 spines, short tear to upper cover of 3, but generally all bright) [Tabor A5a], 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1965; and 48 others by Plath, including first editions in good dust-jackets of 'Crossing the Water', 1971 (13 copies, and 3 American firsts, Tabor A11a/b); 'Winter Trees', 1971 (18 copies, and 8 American firsts, light blue smudge on lower covers off-set from upper covers of UK edition, spines slightly frayed to American editions, Tabor A15a/b), a first American edition of 'Ariel', smudge on upper wrapper [Tabor A5b], 1966 (68)Footnotes:A COLLECTION INCLUDING TWENTY COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ARIEL, all retained since publication by family of Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn.''Ariel' by Sylvia, is in a class apart. She truly became the most phenomenal genius just before she died. In English there is nothing quite so direct & naked & radiant - yet complicated & mysterious at the same time' (Ted Hughes, letter to János Csokits, 21 April 1967).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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PLATH (SYLVIA)The remaining stock of twelve works by Sylvia Plath previously retained by Ted Hughes, comprising: Three Women, 9 copies, second (first published) edition, LIMITED TO 180 COPIES, these numbered '167' to '175', introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, frontispiece by Stanislawa Gliwy, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, original plastic dust-wrapper [Tabor A3b.1], Turret Books, 1968; Wreath for a Bridal, 7 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, these numbered '14', '21' to '25', and one marked by Ted Hughes '[copy] D of 5 unumbered', all but the last mentioned in plain tissue dust-wrapper [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1970]; Fiesta Melons, 14 copies, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, these all numbered as if limited to 30 copies (i.e. 4/30), illustrations by Sylvia Plath, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (one with short tear to upper cover, light fading to a few) [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, 8 copies, LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Child, 26 copies, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, some of these unnumbered, occasional uneven fading to dust-jackets [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Two Poems, 48 copies (including 4 'especial' copies), LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, [Tabor A22, mentioning that 'Ted and Olwyn Hughes took numbers 51-60 and 201-250'), Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, 22 copies, LIMITED TO 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press Poetry, 1980; A Day in June, 23 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], 1981; The Green Rock, 24 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A28], 1982; The Magic Mirror, 10 copies, LIMITED TO 226 COPIES, OF WHICH 2 SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (these from the 26 'lettered' copies 'reserved by the Press'), publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (7 with some uneven discolouring or dusting), 1989, Ely [or Rhiwagor], Embers Handpress; To Eva Descending the Stair, 6 copies, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, colour lithographed illustration by Ralph Steadman, single folded sheet with dust-jacket (missing from 2 copies), Steam Press, [1974], unless otherwise mentioned publisher's stiff wrappers with dust-jackets if where printed, 8vo and 4to; and 14 copies of American Poetry Now... edited by Sylvia Plath, [1961] (c. 211)Footnotes:Provenance: Ted Hughes; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HUGHES (TED)Moortown Elegies, LIMITED TO 175 COPIES, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, prospectus loosely inserted, one full-page illustration by Leonard Baskin, original vellum by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-blocked illustration of a bull by Ted Hughes on upper cover, slipcase [Sagar/Tabor 57a], small folio, Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press, for The Rainbow Press, 1978; and 44 further copies of the same, ALL SIGNED BY HUGHES (45)Footnotes:The remaining stock of Hughes' Moortown Elegies, comprising 45 of the 175 signed copies published by The Rainbow Press, the joint enterprise of Ted and his sister Olwyn. 'Olwyn played the major role in the Rainbow Press publications. She chose the printer and binder for each edition and mostly chose the paper on which it was to be printed... Ted enjoyed being involved in the making of the books and had enormous creative force and energy. He watched over the Press productions and provided much of the material from his own writings' (Ann Skea, Ted Hughes and Small Press Publication, online).Of Moortown Elegies John Carey wrote 'It grips your heart, and your intestines, like a vice from the first page. [Hughes] makes language as physical as a bruise, and these poems beauty and tenderness blend in violence' (review in Sunday Times).Provenance: Ted Hughes and Olwyn Hughes; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BAGNOLD (ENID)The Squire, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'Men build their own lives: but No girl knows her journey - Enid Bagnold', dust-jacket (soiled with small losses at corners), 1938; Two Plays, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'My Own Copy E.J., March 21 [19]51, London' on front free endpaper and on upper cover of dust-jacket, [1951]; The Chalk Garden, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY INSCRIBED 'My first copy. Enid Bagnold, Rottingdean. August 22 - 1956' on front free endpaper, and EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED throughout Act I, a note by her recorded that this copy was 'used for the French translation...', dust-jacket, [1956]; Alice and Thomas and Jane, COPY BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, with ownership inscription 'Colonel A.H. Bagnold, Warren Wood, Shooters Hill, S.E.18' on front free endpaper, pictorial dust-jacket (a few small marginal tears), 1930; The Loved and the Envied, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Mr & Mrs. Sanderson from the Author Enid Bagnold, Jan. 1951', dust-jacket, New York, Doubleday, 1951; Four Plays, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dear Billie with deep gratitude & love from Enid (Have a look at 'Call Me Jacky' - I might be badgering you again if you could stand it)', Boston, Little, Brown, [1970]; Letters to Frank Harris, & Other Friends, LIMITED TO 400 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, this copy marked 'Advance copy 6th May 1980 (for the author)' on the colophon, and with an additional inscription on the title-page to Enid from the printers, John and Rose Randle, 5 plates, slipcase, The Whittington press, [1980]; Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married. By a Lady of Quality, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS in ink and pencil on approximately 10 pages, inscribed 'Corrected Copy for America... Feb. 192[?5], E.J[ones, Bagnold's married name]' on the upper cover, and 'Enid Jones' on front free endpaper, labels on cover age soiled, 1924, unless otherwise stated William Heinemann, 8vo; and 3 others, 2 inscribed by Bagnold, one a paperback edition in French of 'Serena Blandish', limited to 100 copies 'sur Alfa special des Papeteries du Marais', with long inscription to Bagnold ('Lady Jones') from the publisher (11)Footnotes:'NO GIRL KNOWS HER JOURNEY' - The author's copies of some of her own books, all signed, and two of which are annotated in preparation for new editions.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the sale of the remaining contents of North End House, Rottingdean... The Property of Lady Jones, C.B.E. (Miss Enid Bagnold), Christie's, 16 October 1980.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BECKETT (SAMUEL)Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 Acts, first edition in English, 2 leaves of photographs, publisher's black cloth, lettering in silver and gold italics on spine, scarlet endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket (slightly dulled on spine), 8vo, New York, Grove Press, [1954]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COWARD (NOEL)Pomp and Circumstance, 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO ENID BAGNOLD loosely inserted within envelope taped to front free endpaper, ownership inscription of Enid Bagnold ('Enid Jones 1960') on front free endpaper, Heinemann, 1960--GIELGUD (JOHN) An Actor and His Time, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dearest Enid [Bagnold]. A poor thing, but mine own! Much love as ever, John, 1975 [sic]', Sidgwick & Jackson, [1979]--MOSLEY (DIANA) A Life of Contrasts. The Autobiography, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Doris, best wishes from Diana Mosley', WITH OSWALD MOSLEY'S SIGNATURE beneath on the title, 4pp. 'Foyles Luncheons' table plan with list of invitees for lunch in honour of Mosley, 12 May 1977 loosely inserted, Hamish Hamilton, 1977, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; together with 3 volumes of Leonard Woolf's autobiography with the ownership signature of Enid Bagnold and 2 TYPED LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR (signed 'Leonard') to Bagnold ('Dear Enid') taped in at front (6)Footnotes:'IN FACT DEAR ENID DON'T, AS LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER MIGHT HAVE SAID, ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE BUGGERED ABOUT!' - a long letter full of advice on the art of writing plays written to Enid Bagnold, author and playwright. He notes that the 'theatre is, always has been, and always must be, a circumscribed formula', advises that she should concentrate on the third act ('In the ideal play the last act is the strongest... get the last act set in your mind or on paper before you begin the first act'), praises Bagnold's 'lovely gift of words... [but] what you need is a Sergeant-Major quality', and tells her to ignore the advice of 'actors and managers and directors [as] they are not dramatists... Oh dear how pompous and bossy I am becoming but you did ask for it and you know how much I love and admire your richness'.The letters from Leonard Woolf, both from 1967, include a discussion on new buildings at Rodmell ('I deplore the pullulation of building everywhere which turns the country and its villages into a vast suburb'), and praise for a letter sent by Bagnold to the Times in which she attacks the Royal Horticultural Society for having no female members on the council.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'you' for 'your' on page 13, line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget (2 loose), publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, thin vertical light dampstain on lower cover, light dampstain at foot of spine but generally bright [De Waal 87], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GRAVES (ROBERT)Good-bye to All That, second impression without the Sassoon poems on pp.341-2, jacket with some loss to spine and age soiled, Jonathan Cape, [1929]--WELLS (H.G.) The Croquet Player, jacket price-clipped, Chatto & Windus, 1936--ORWELL (GEORGE) The English People, Collins, 1947; England Your England and Other Essays, Secker & Warburg, [1953]--AUDEN (W.H.) and LOUIS MACNEICE. Letters from Iceland, [1937]--LARKIN (PHILIP) The Whitsun Weddings, 1964; High Windows, jacket price-clipped, 1974, Faber--GREENE (GRAHAM) British Dramatists, Collins, 1932, FIRST EDITIONS--BURY (ADRIAN) Shadow of Eros. A Biographical... Study of the Life and Works of Sir Alfred Gilbert, NUMBER 53 OF 53 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, full morocco gilt, jacket soiled with small losses to spine, Dropmore Press, 1952, ALL WITH DUST-JACKETS (occasional toning or slight rubbing at extremities)--HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Brave New World, FIRST EDITION, circular cup stain on upper cover, Chatto & Windus, 1932--GAUTIER (THEOPHILE) Mademoiselle De Maupin, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, original quarter vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1938--STEWART (CECIL) Topiary, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, illustrations by Peter Barker-Mill, publisher's half buckram over patterned boards, [1954], Golden Cockerel Press--WELLINGTON. A Selection from the Private Correspondence of the First Duke of Wellington, printed in red and black, publisher's cloth, Dropmore Press, for The Roxburghe Club, 1952, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo and 4to (13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JOYCE (JAMES)Ulysses, ninth printing, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO H.G. WELLS, INSCRIBED 'To H.G. Wells respectully James Joyce, 5 November 1928 Paris' on the front free endpaper, bound in full black goatskin BY SALLY LOU SMITH (gilt-stamped 'SLS' at rear and on spine of case), the covers and spine tooled in blind with black, brown, grey, ochre and yellow onlays to an abstract design of 'Dublin at night', inside covers tooled in gilt with abstract design, yellow and grey Japanese endpapers, g.e., preserved in felt-lined quarter black morocco solander box by Sally Lou Smith, 4to, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1927Footnotes:ULYSSES INSCRIBED BY JAMES JOYCE TO H.G. WELLS - IN A SALLY LOU SMITH DESIGNER BINDING.A fine association copy linking two of the great twentieth century writers. H.G. Wells was an important early advocate of Joyce, writing a highly favourable review of his first book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and describing it as 'a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss. Its claim to be literature is as good as the claim of the last book of Gulliver's Travels... No single book has ever shown how different they [English and Irish sensibilities] are, as completely as this most memorable novel' (The New Republic, 10 March 1917). This copy was inscribed for Wells on 5 November 1928. Later that month, on 23 November, Wells wrote to Joyce that 'I have enormous respect for your genius dating from your earliest books and I feel now a great personal liking for you but you and I are set upon absolutely different courses... [but] You have turned your back on common men — on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence, and you have elaborated. What is the result? Vast riddles. Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read... Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live', signing off with obvious warmth that 'I can't follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong'. In 1928 sections of what was to become Finnegan's Wake were published under the title Work in Progress, and it has been assumed that Wells' letter to Joyce was written in response to a request for his public support of this work. The surfacing of the present inscribed copy suggests that Wells's comments were perhaps also incorporating his thoughts on Ulysses.The fine designer binding was made in 1981 by Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007), who, commenting on her inspiration for the design, stated that 'The idea gradually formed that my view of the book ['Ulysses'] was the city: Dublin: Dublin at night'.Provenance: H.G. Wells; purchased by the vendor at the auction of the remaining contents of North End House, Rottingdean, East Sussex. The Property of Lady Jones C.B.E. (Miss Enid Bagnold), Christie's, 16 October 1980.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
KIPLING (RUDYARD)Thy Servant A Dog, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR below struck-out printed name on the title-page, with note in another hand 'Presented to Clarence Winchester who published this story in Cassell's Magazine' on verso of the half-title, publisher's limp pictorial morocco gilt, g.e., Macmillan, 1930--HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Selected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's parchment-backed decorative boards, spine lettered in gilt, Oxford, Blackwell, 1926--BENSON (A.C.) Rambles and Reflections, with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER tipped-in on half-title along with a picture of Benson, thanking a Miss Christmas for her 'generous letter', 1 page, dated 23 April 1907, bookplate of May Christmas, John Murray, [1926]--MASEFIELD (JOHN) The Collected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's decorative morocco, t.e.g., Heinemann, 1923--FOWLES (JOHN) Mantissa, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, dust-jacket, Jonathan Cape, 1982--BELL (J.J.) The Whale Hunters and Other Stories, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Clarence Winchester [editor of 'The Argosy'] with regards of J.J. Bell, 1929' on the frontispiece, with 2 autograph letters signed by Bell to Winchester, one of which asks that Winchester accept this book, dated in June and August 1929, ownership label of Winchester inside upper cover, Thomas Nelson, [1929]--GOUDGE (ELIZABETH) The Dean's Watch, INSCRIBED BY THE POET ELIZABETH JENNINGS, 'For Mummy wishing you a very happy Christmas from Elizabeth, Oxford Christmas 1960' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket (price clipped), Hodder and Stoughton, 1960--FITZGERALD (PENELOPE) The Bookshop, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with date 'August 1995' on the title, with loosely inserted ticket to a Fitzgerald literary event from the same month, publisher's wrappers, Flamingo, [1989], unless otherwise mentioned in publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 3 others, including a copy of George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah with an autograph letter signed by Shaw's wife ('C.T. Shaw', ie. Charlotte Townsend), on paper headed '10 Adelphi Terrace' and dated 24 June 1921, sending the book to a Mr. Munro; and a programme to 'Poets in Place' signed by Christopher Fry, Robert Gittings, Leslie Norris and Ted Walker (11)Footnotes:Inscribed books by Rudyard Kipling, A.C. Benson, Aldous Huxley, John Fowles, and others.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ORWELL (GEORGE)Nineteen Eighty-four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine (slightly faded), publisher's red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard (slightly rubbed or frayed at extremities, spine faded, old tape repair on verso of spine ends and corners, short tear to edge of lower cover) [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[THOMAS (EDWARD)]BIRKET FOSTER (MYLES) In Rustic England... edited by W. Shaw Sparrow, INSCRIBED BY EDWARD THOMAS TO HIS SIST](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/2d638d8c-f199-43ca-a8ce-ad3b00d39db0/468x382.jpg)
[THOMAS (EDWARD)]BIRKET FOSTER (MYLES) In Rustic England... edited by W. Shaw Sparrow, INSCRIBED BY EDWARD THOMAS TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, 'Mary & Arthur Valon from Edward Thomas 1906' on the front free endpaper, 25 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting, publisher's cloth, small 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906--THOMAS (EDWARD) Poems, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait photogravure, publisher's grey boards, printed label on spine (abrasions affecting several letters), a few scattered stains on lower cover [Eckert pp.242-244], 8vo, Selwyn & Blount; and a copy of the first edition in dust-jacket of A Witness Tree (1943) by Robert Frost, to whom Poems was dedicated (3)Footnotes:Edward Thomas, in his role at literary critic for The Daily Chronicle, wrote a review of In Rustic England, published on 20 December 1906, inscribing this copy of the book to Mary Valon, sister of his wife Helen, and her husband. In the same year Thomas published his book The Heart of England. Poems, published six months after his death at Arras, was Thomas's first regularly published book of poetry, this being one of 525 copies printed for distribution in England.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST DAILY NEWS ISSUE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), upper fore-corner of first and last few leaves turned (some with loss), short marginal tears with some loss to blank lower margin of final leaf, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the front, spine worn with some slight losses, lacks rear wrapper, piece of old envelope partially obscuring text on inner front wrapper [Cohen A31.4.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, London and Manchester, The Daily News, [1910]Footnotes:THE RARE 'DAILY NEWS ISSUE', with the revised Manchester imprint on the front wrapper, one of several published by Hodder and Stoughton in conjunction with regional newspapers. The Daily News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, the newspaper's first editor before he handed the reigns over to John Forster. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle, and in 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought the newspaper in order to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop labour. From 1906, it also became prominent in its support for women's suffrage.Provenance: National League of Young Liberals, stamped in ink across front wrapper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, second issue, 12pp., title within double rule border and with small device in centre, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, with a loosely inserted compliments slip printed on blue paper, FINE COPY [Cohen A74.2; Woods A33], 205 x 90mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [1924]Footnotes:'The following article on what may be expected in the event of a new war comes with authority from an Englishman who for may years has been actively identified with the war machinery of the British Empire' (Introduction). This ominously prophetic article first appeared in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine before being published in the U.S. as this stand-alone pamphlet. In it Churchill envisages a future world at risk from chemical and bacteriological warfare, and warns of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ('Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke?').The compliments slip included here is presumably a rare survival. It is signed in print by Raymond B. Fosdick of the Rockefeller Foundation ('Your opinion on this leaflet would be appreciated.... If you would like some extra copies for distribution among your friends, I should be glad to supply them').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, 12pp., unrecorded issue with variant title border and without printer's name on p.12, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, some soiling, corner crease with very small chip to front wrapper, joint split at top [cf. Cohen A74; Woods A33], 207 x 95mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [?New York, Eilert printing Co., 1924]--[GIBB (ALEX DEWER)] With Winston Churchill at the Front, By Captain X [Capt. Alex Dewer Gibb], frontispiece portrait of Churchill, some foxing to first few pages, publisher's pictorial wrappers, soiled, scratch to upper cover, spine chipped at foot (lettering unaffected), small 8vo, London & Glasgow, Gowans & Gray, 1924--KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, publisher's printed wrappers, darkened, spine and one corner reinforced, 2 chips to lower cover, 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925--CHURCHILL (WINSTON) A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 2 copies, 16pp., one copy in publisher's buff wrappers and on unwatermarked paper, and the other in light bluish grey wrappers on watermarked paper, some foxing, especially to the second [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], 8vo, [Baynard Press], 1940--The Pilgrims. Speeches at the Dinner to Celebrate the Bi-Centenary of the Birth of George Washington, Tuesday, 12th July, 1932, 19 pages (Churchill's speech occupying 4), original stiff wrappers [Cohen D63], [1932]; together with the table plan for the dinner (16pp., stiff wrappers) and menu (4pp., on card), both printed in blue (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Beating the Invader. A Message from the Prime Minister, 2-page leaflet, 4 copies, all Cohen's first or second issue, creases where formerly folded, one unusually good condition, the others with slight creases, chips or staining at edges [Cohen B76.1-2; Woods A69], [1941]--If the Invader Comes. What To Do - And How to Do It, 2-page leaflet, 8 copies, some browning and fold creases, 2 chipped at edges, one with hole affecting text and tear, [1940], 4to (c.275 x 208mm.), Ministry of Information in Co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security--After the Raid, 6-page folding leaflet, 15 x 245mm. when opened, Ministry of Home Security London Region Edition, December 1940 (13)Footnotes:Two hitherto scarce wartime leaflets, issued in 1941 and 1940, the first with a lengthy introduction by Churchill and instructions to the public as to what to do in the event of an invasion. This group of leaflets came to light following a previous consignment earlier this year (see our sale on 31 March 2021, lot 116).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![CHURCHILL (WINSTON) AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAtlantic Charter [August 12th 1941], NUMBER 3 OF 100 COPIES, printed on Simili](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/b51bf71b-bbec-4de7-88a7-ad4a00af2fa1/468x382.jpg)
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAtlantic Charter [August 12th 1941], NUMBER 3 OF 100 COPIES, printed on Simili Japon paper in grey and blue with initial flourish and rubrications, sewn with silk thread in publisher's wrappers [not in Cohen or Woods], 16mo, [Utrecht], The Busy Bee, [1944]Footnotes:A very good copy of this rare and finely printed edition, not seen by Cohen or Woods, and only one copy appearing in auction records (1989).'The Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, first published August 12th 1941, has been printed in secret in the office of the Busy Bee, somewhere in occupied Holland, this being the third volume of the series Documents Humains. The edition has been limited to 100 copies on Simili Japon paper. 3 [in ink]' (colophon).The Busy Bee, or De Bezige Bij, began life during the Second World War and quickly became a remarkably successful clandestine publishing house, issuing broadsides and helping to raise funds to aid Jewish children to escape from the Nazis. The Atlantic Charter was its first official publication, and despite the circumstances, the printing would have been worthy of any fine private press.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy - from the Author' in black ink on the half-title, frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, small piece torn away from pp.25/26, short tear in margin of 7 leaves (of which 5 repaired with archival tape), final leaf with ragged tear touching some letters repaired and long crease, approximately 7 leaves with light fold crease in corner, occasional light spotting and handling marks, later red calf gilt, g.e., worn at extremities, small losses at spine ends [Handbook 46], 8vo, Macmillan, 1866 [1865]Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION OF ALICE, inscribed to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne-Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook. Gathorne-Hardy had come into the orbit of Dodgson's Oxford circle in 1865, the year in which Alice was published, when he stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in the election for the Oxford University constituency, a seat he won by defeating William Ewart Gladstone. Dodgson records his signing of a voting paper for the election in his diary (10 July 1865) and, prompted by that election, wrote Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865), a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise.In 1867, newly promoted to the role of Home-Secretary, Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, and Dodgson took the opportunity of inviting him to Christ Church to have his photograph taken. Dodgson noted in his diary on 10 June 1867 '...I succeeded in taking two pictures of him, neither of them, I fear, particularly successful'. However, a friendship was forged. Later that month, Gathorne-Hardy wrote to Dodgson that 'My little girl's names are Margaret Evelyn, and I am sure she would dearly treasure Alice in English and French, but has no right to tax you for both.' A correspondence between the two men ensued, Dodgson later meeting Mrs. Hardy and the family, and evidently [see following 2 lots] continuing to send copies of his books to the young Margaret Evelyn.Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, first edition in German, translated by Antonie Zimmermann, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author' in brown ink on the half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, light soiling and fingering, small dampstain at margin of of a few leaves, small pencil date '1871' added on title, brown endpapers, publisher's (variant) green pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown, some abrasions and bubbling to sides, hinges cracked [Handbook 71], 8vo, Macmillan, 1869Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN GERMAN OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, inscribed to one of Dodgson's young female readers. The German edition was the first foreign language edition of Alice to appear. 'The reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent' (Madan and Williams).Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Christmas 1871' in purple ink on the half-title, illustrations by John Tenniel, lacks the final 2 leaves (advertisement and printer's details), tear without loss to pp.29/30, pencil scribble in 2 margin, later red calf gilt, g.e. [Handbook 84], 8vo, Macmillan, 1872 [1871]Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DODGSON IN PURPLE INK - IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION - to one of his young female readers. Although the date on the title-page is 1872 the book was issued in December 1871, Dodgson himself receiving his copy on the 6th of the month. Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DRINKWATER (JOHN)HARDY (THOMAS) Photographic postcard of a plaster bust of Hardy depicted in profile, inscribed in ink on the image ('To John Drinkwater:/ Thomas Hardy'), postcard 122 x 85mm.; with the remaining papers from the collection of John Drinkwater, including the unfinished manuscript for English Poetry written in two manuscript notebooks both with ownership inscriptions ('The Property of John Drinkwater/North Hall/Mortimer Crescent...'), with chapters on 'The Nature and Function of Poetry', 'Poetry and Prose', 'Elizabethan Lyric', 'Poetry and Narrative' etc., with annotations and corrections by the author, written on verso only, 120 numbered leaves in two volumes, 4to (225 x 170mm.); two manuscript notebooks with ownership inscriptions ('The Property of John Drinkwater...'), the first volume entitled 'Being the Third Book of an Autobiography/ by/ John Drinkwater' (unfinished), written on verso only, 67 numbered leaves, folio (322 x 200mm.); drawings including sketch by Edwin Lutyens of two horses signed and inscribed to Ann Penelope Drinkwater, January [19]37, tipped into a menu inscribed 'Penny Darling/ At this dinner I got Sir Edwin Lutyens to/ draw a special little drawing for you. Daddy.' and miniature watercolour painting by Abigail Brown Tompkins; various typed notes and essays by Drinkwater; pamphlets and privately printed material, several with John Drinkwater's ownership inscription; collection of printed menus some annotated, including menu for 'Dinner of Welcome for the Indian Cricket Team', 27 April 1939 signed by various English captains and the All India cricket team such as C.B. Fry, Douglas Jardine, Syed Wazir Ali and others; quantity of theatre programmes, many for Drinkwater's own productions including Bird in Hand, A Man's House and his translation of Mussolini's Napoleon: The Hundred Days; other printed ephemera and personal papers including passports, driving licence etc., family indentures, press cuttings, and much else, early 20th century (quantity)Footnotes:'BEING THE THIRD BOOK OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY': the manuscript for the third volume of Drinkwater's autobiography intended to accompany the two volumes already published, Inheritance of 1931 and Discovery of 1932. Dated 'Begun Pepys House/ August 2nd 1933/ J.D.', it tantalisingly stops mid-sentence ('...I realised anew how good a poet Blunden is himself. Vita Sackville West...').The collection also includes Drinkwater's unfinished manuscript (dated '3.ix.35') for what was to be English Poetry: An Unfinished History, published posthumously by Methuen in 1938: 'When a Poet writes poetry he can scarcely fail to interest. And the author of this posthumous volume was not only a poet but no mean critic too. As a result, his approach to English Poetry is not a work of merely casual interest: it is illuminating. No one could fail to be enriched and delighted by its discriminating enthusiasms, its happy quotations, and the no less happy judgements, discoveries, definitions and phrases which it gives us... This premature ending is deeply regretted. But, fortunately for us, the first five chapters are devoted to general and personal observations, and are so full of references to the intervening and modern periods that we can genuinely claim to have here a fair impression of Drinkwater's view of the whole panorama of English Poetry' (routledge.com). Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DRINKWATER (JOHN)Remaining books from the library of John Drinkwater, including 105 volumes of his own works, either with his ownership inscription (often dated), or a presentation inscription (to his second wife Daisy - sometimes addressed as 'David' - or daughter Penny), with approximately 60 other copies of his works (about 20 signed by Daisy), and 10 books inscribed to him by other authors (including John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy - see footnote), some with additional notes and annotations, a few with loosely inserted letters and photographs, some with Drinkwater's gilt morocco bookplate, others with 'J.D.' stamp, publisher's bindings, several in dust-jackets, variable rubbing or wear, mostly 8vo, a few 4to, [c.1914-1935] (quantity)Footnotes:UPWARDS OF 100 NOVELS, PLAYS, ESSAYS AND WORKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN DRINKWATER, ALL EITHER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, or presentation copies to his wife or daughter, several the dedication copies.Includes: Cotswold Characters (1921), WITH 5 PROOF WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH captioned in pencil, JD noting 'Inserted are proofs of the cuts, inscribed by P.N.'; Abraham Lincoln. A Play (1919), with a tipped-in envelope containing 'LEAVES FROM THE DINNER TABLE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 16th 1864' written by 'Ella Virginia J.P. 1872' with note by JD 'These were given to me when I was in the U.S.A.'; The Collected Poems in 2 vol. (1931), inscribed by JD 'a copy of the large paper edition, specially bound by S. & S. Inserted is a copy of the frontispiece, coloured by Albert Rutherston' [also inscribed 'J.D. from A.R.. Dec. 1923']; Preludes 1921-1922 (1922), LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, inscribed 'No. 3, and my own copy... September 1922; Claud Lovat Fraser (1923), LIMITED TO 45O COPIES, signed by Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston; A Book for Bookmen (1926), ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH AN ALS FROM T.S.WISE (the dedicatee) tipped-in, also another copy with 2 further ALS from Wise ('What a brick you are...'); Charles James Fox (1928), inscribed 'To David, the dearest Lady that I know. This book about Charles, whom must have been a very dear gentleman. With love from her Jonathan, Pepys House, September 1928'; A Man's House (1934), inscribed to his daughter Penny '... this play was produced at Malvern on July 23rd, three days before your fifth birthday...', with jacket and wraparound band; another copy inscribed to his wife 'wishing her luck with our play... Malvern, 23. vii. 34'; Laying the Devil (1933), inscribed 'Daisy darling, thank you for believing in this play, and for helping me by believing in it... Shaftsbury Theatre, 2.VII.33'; Garibaldi (1936), inscribed 'For My David, this first copy of the new play... 6.vi.36'; Robert Burns. A Play (1925), THE DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'Daisy Drinkwater from her Jonathan, New York, November 24th 1925'; More About Me. Poems for a Child (1929), DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'My darling little [Penelope Ann, JD's daughter, printed] from her loving father who made the rhyme, Brampton October 28th 1929'.Books inscribed by their author to Drinkwater include: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, with additional note by Drinkwater 'Given to me by Bennett on the evening that I read 'Robert Burns' to him. J.D.', 1923; John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, 1913; Charles Morgan. Sparkenbroke, 1936; Ramsay Macdonald, At Home and Abroad, 1936; Amelia Defries. Rebirth, the dedication copy, 1928.; John Buchan, The Manor of Elsfield, 1931.Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ELIOT (T.S.)Murder in the Cathedral, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER, inscribed 'for E. McKnight Kauffer by T.S. Eliot 11.vi.[19]35' on the front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, spine faded and rubbed at extremities, 8vo, Faber and Faber, [1935]Footnotes:First edition, inscribed in the month of publication by Eliot to his close friend, the American-born artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). Best known for his posters designed for London Underground, Kauffer supplied the cover artwork to Eliot's Journey of the Magi (1927), Marina (1930) and Triumphal March (1931), and of him Eliot wrote he 'did something for modern art with the public and something for the public with modern art' (British Library website).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GIELGUD (JOHN)An Actor and His Time, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GIELGUD, THE DEDICATEE RALPH RICHARDSON, AND OTHER ACTORS, all on the title-page, and inscribed 'Love from Christina [Foyle]' on the dedication leaf, photographic plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Sidgwick & Jackson, [1979]Footnotes:A copy of Gielgud's autobiography signed by Gielgud and fellow theatrical acting greats Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Anna Neagle, Elspeth March, Kathleen Nesbitt and Edward Fox, along with composer Vivian Ellis, the publisher Lord Longford, and Christina Foyle,organiser of the legendary 'Foyles Literary Luncheons'.Provenance: Jeanne Heal (1917-2010), actress and author, inscribed 'with Love from Christina [Foyle]', and with accompanying typed letter signed from Christina Foyle inviting her to attend a 'luncheon we are giving to Sir John Gielgud to mark the publication of his book... on Tuesday, 20th November, [1979]'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MACNEICE (LOUIS)Blind Fireworks, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed to 'Giovanna Marie Thérèse Babette Miriam Ezra' below the printed dedication to her, signed by the author at end of the Foreword, first issue binding of cream canvas boards, Victor Gollancz, 1929--THOMAS (DYLAN) New Poems, first printing in book form, publisher's boards, dust-jacket, Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, The Poets of the Year, 1943--LAWRENCE (D.H) Pansies, limited to 500 copies, portrait, original wrappers, Privately Printed, 1929--HERBERT (A.P) Poor Poems and Rotten Rhymes, original printed wrappers, solander box with bookplate of Mary Priscilla Smith, Winchester, P. & G. Wells, Booksellers to Winchester College, 1910, 8vo; and approximately 17 others (quantity)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LILFORD (THOMAS POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, photogravure portrait, 421 plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge and J.G. Keulemans, mostly chromolithographed, some hand-finished, all mounted on guards, some scattered spotting and foxing, original half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, t.e.g., a few light abrasions [Fine Bird Books, p.91; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer, p.399], large 8vo, R.H. Porter, 1885-1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
POLITICS - MARGARET THATCHER'S CABINET, 1981The Conservative Cabinet of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at No. 10 Downing Street, colour photograph, SIGNED BY THATCHER AND ALL THE CABINET MINISTERS (including Whitelaw, Tebbit, Lamont, Howe, Hailsham, Heseltine, etc.) beneath the image on the mount, corners of mount slightly bumped, image 290 x 385, mount 460 x 530mm., [14 December 1981]; together with official group portrait of Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet of 1979, and those led by Harold Wilson, and Jim Callaghan (4)Footnotes:Official photograph of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet in December 1981, reflecting the changes made by her reshuffle made that September, signed by all the members including Thatcher, Tebbitt, Whitelaw, etc.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PROUST (MARCEL)Six autograph letters signed ('Marcel Proust'), five to Thérèse Fould née Ephrussi ('Chère madame' or 'Madame') and one to her husband Léon Fould ('Cher Monsieur'), all written on mourning paper, three of the letters to Thérèse discussing his recuperation and desire to leave Paris, against his doctor's advice, for a trip to the mountains or the sea ('Vous je suppose que vous irez à Chantilly... mais Fontainebleau m'a autrefois si mal réussi que je crains a priori les forets. J'ai pourtant très bien respiré à Vallière'), thanking her for her great kindness, apologising that another bout of flu has prevented him from going out, and mentioning a conversation with her son, Proust's friend Eugène (who, despite a misunderstanding over an invitation 'a été délicieux d'esprit et de gentillesse'), which, along with a decision to pop out for half an hour ('Malheureusement cette sortie m'a réussi aussi mal que possible'), meant it was to late to visit her; the other two letters to Thérèse, presumably following the death of her other son Robert, sending his heart-felt condolences ('La pensée de votre douleur m'affole, me martyrise. Je ne pense a vous qu'avec un effroi anxieux'), hoping that God will also give Eugène, his sister Elisabeth and Monsieur Fould 'la force de résister a cette immense angoisse', and asking Thérèse to encourage Eugène to write to him; the letter to Monsieur Fould (dated 'Mardi soir'), thanking him for his visit and kindness, asking him to send his apologies to Thérèse ('en ce moment je suis bien incapable d'ecrire'), hoping that the Ephrussi family are coping ('Madame Marie... le pauvre Ignace Ephrussi... Charles Ephrussi lui aussi a perdu sa mère'), and hoping that Robert 'est maintenant tout à fait rétabli', 20 pages, on bifolia, one on thinner paper, a few creases, 8vo, no place or date [Paris, 1905?]Footnotes:UNPUBLISHED LETTERS FROM PROUST AT A TIME OF LOSS FOR THE AUTHOR AND HIS CLOSE FRIENDS. In this group of six letters from Thérèse and Leon Fould, the author shows himself to be consumed with grief and concern for the health and wellbeing of his friends, whist also displaying his usual tendencies for hypochondria and perhaps a form of agoraphobia. Thérèse Bacha Prascovie Fould (1851-1911), née Ephrussi ran a thriving literary salon which Proust frequented from around the turn of the century. A well-known figure, she had sat for Renoir in 1880 and the resulting portrait was sold at auction last year for just under £500,000. Proust corresponded regularly with her, and the library at Royaumont has a copy of the author's first published work, the 1904 translation of Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens, which he inscribed to 'Madame Léon Fould. Respectueux hommage d'un ami'.Thérèse's marriage to Léon Fould (1839–1924) was one of several unions between well known banking dynasties of the period. Léon had lived through the Commune in the revolutionary Paris of 1870, and the couple had three children including Eugene, who became a close friend of Proust, and Robert, who died in October 1905, a month after the author's own mother, at the tender age of 22. This period of shared grief tightened the bonds between them, and either or both of the deaths would account for the use of mourning paper. Thérèse was the half-sister of Charles Ephrussi, who was a well-known art historian, collector and editor (1849–1905), and one of the inspirations for the character of Swann. Like Thérèse, he was painted by Renoir, appearing as the man in the top hat talking to Proust in Le déjeuner des canotiers.Provenance: Thérèse Fould (1851-1911), née Ephrussi; her son Eugène Fould (1876–1929) and his wife Mitzi Springer; their daughter Therese Fould-Springer (1908-1953); and thence by descent to the author David Pryce-Jones. Eugène and Mitzi Fould-Springer presented 20 of their Proust letters to the Bibliotheque Nationale, but retained the present series, which remain unpublished in Philip Kolb, Correspondance de Marcel Proust.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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PULP FICTION - CRIMEPERRELLI (NICK, pseud. of George Herbert Dawson) Terror in Tokyo, [1950]; The Body Ran Home, very short tear lower margin of upper cover, [1951], each with 'Printed in England' stamp on title, and '35c.' stamp on upper cover; Virgins Die Lonely, [1950]; Virgin's Vendetta, [1950], Bolton, Tempest; She Sure Slipped, [1952]; A Dame Doles Death, [1953]--BARONI (NICK), Pseud. of FREDERICK TOM FODEN [and others]. Red Doll, [c.1951]; Shapely Lady, [c.1951]; Pay Off, [c.1951]; Don't Mind Stella, [c.1951]; High Heels and Scanties, [c.1951]; Easy Curves, [c.1951], Curtis Warren Ltd--CELLO (JOHNNY) A Guy Gets His, [1951]; Lights Out, [1952], Scion--COSTELLO (PETE) Bowery Blonde, [c.1951]; Call Girl, [c.1951]; Redheads Spell Danger, [c.1952]; Dames Die Hard, [c.1952]; Murder in Mink, [c.1953]--BARNATO (BART) Broadway Siren, [c.1951]; Dames Play Dumb, [c.1951]; Bigtime Payoff, [c.1953], Edwin Self--ANGELO (TONY), Pseud. of THOMAS WEBB. Sinner's Shroud, [1950] MORELLI (SPIKE), Pseud. of WILLIAM NEWTON. You'll Never Get Me, [1950]; Coffin for Cutie, [1950], stamped 'Printed In England' on title and £35c.' on upper cover, Stoke, Archer; This Way for Hell, [1952]; Death for a Doll, [1952], New York, Leisure Library--BORELLI (CASS) I will Kill, Scion, [1953]--ROSA (VICKI) Palm Beach Playgirl, Bush, 1948, mostly first editions, publisher's pictorial wrappers (some by designed Heade, and Ferrari), a few with light creases, 8vo; and 44 others by 'Italian American' authors, including Perrelli, Cello, Costello, Baroni, etc. (c.74)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Snow Vogue, FIRST EDITION, loss at head of dust-jacket spine affecting the word 'Snow', Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., [1941]; Road Floozie, 1950; '... One More Nice White Body', rodent damage to lower part of spine (similar to dust-jacket), jacket price-clipped, 1952; 'You Took Me... Keep Me', library labels, and perforated stamp on 2 pages, small tears to jacket with label on spine, 1941 [but 1952]; Curtains for Carrie, 1953, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets, 8vo, all but the first mentioned Robin Hood Press; and 3 others by Darcy Glinto, dust-jacketed hardbacks (8)Footnotes:The rare first edition hardback with dust-jacket of Glinto's classic of drug peddling, glossed as 'Opium! Cocaine!! Dope!!!. Fiendish Drug-Orgies Shock America' on a later paperback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Lady - Don't Turn Over, [November 1940]; No Mortgage on a Coffin, [January 1941]; Snow Vogue, [1941]; Road Floozie, date stamp '24 Nov. 1941' on first leaf, [1941], Wells, Gardner, Darton, & Co.; Curtains for Carrie, 1947; Mannequin Moll, 1948; No Come-back for Connie, [1948]; Straight-Up Girl, slight rusting to staples, [1949]; '... One More Nice White Body', small loss at blank extremities of spine, 1950, Robin Hood Press, FIRST EDITIONS, the first three mentioned publisher's stiff wrappers with pictorial dust-jackets, the others publisher's wrappers, 8vo; and 24 others by Darcy Glinto, including the early Robin Hood Press issues of the Wells, Gardner titles (c.31)Footnotes:A fine run of Darcy Glinto works, including the first editions of his first four books, including Lady - Don't Turn Over and Snow Vogue for which he and the publishers was prosecuted for obscenity at the Old Bailey in 1942, resulting in a fine of £200.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ARMS AND ARMOURMEYRICK (WILLIAM) An Illustrated Catalogue of Weapons and Detached Specimens of Armour, from the Collection of William Meyrick, Esq., FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 120 ALBUMEN PRINTS (numbered 1-118, with 2 each for nos. 98 and 117, all numbered in ink on mount above image), accompanying printed leaf of text to plates 1-92 (with additions in ink to 9), the remainder with a leaf of descriptive text in manuscript, mounted one per page, cutting from Connoisseur Magazine relating pasted on front endpaper, contemporary red morocco gilt, original gilt lettering label on upper cover, g.e, rebacked preserving original spine (with modern gilt morocco lettering label), rubbed [not in Gernsheim], folio (360 x 265mm.), Joseph Clayton, 1861Footnotes:RARE CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM MEYRICK COLLECTION OF WEAPONS AND ARMOUR, ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. No copies traced as selling on Rare Book Hub, and only one copy listed on Worldcat. Presumably published in a limited number of copies, the author notes that he is 'indebted to a friend for having most kindly taken these photographs from specimens of weapons... I have obtained in the last fifteen or twenty years. In making this small collection, my object has been to procure such specimens only, as are really of good form, or of good workmanship...' (Introduction).Provenance: Leonard Brassey (1870-1958), 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, armorial bookplate. Leonard's father Henry Arthur Brassey, M.P. purchased the Meyrick collection en bloc in about 1880, bequeathing it to his son on his death in 1891. Leonard subsequently consigned the collection for auction at Christie's, offered as Meyrick Arms and Armour being the Collection Formed about the Middle of the 19th Century by the late Dr. William Meyrick, February 21, 1922. Many of the items were purchased by Dr. Bashford Dean for the Metropolitan Museum, New York.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMESARTO (BEN), Pseud. of FRANK DUBREZ FAWCETT [and others]. She Ruled with a Rod, [c.1945]; Miss Otis Comes](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/ecba22b0-e2ac-4a15-aa40-ad4a00af0215/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMESARTO (BEN), Pseud. of FRANK DUBREZ FAWCETT [and others]. She Ruled with a Rod, [c.1945]; Miss Otis Comes to Piccadilly, very small hole to upper cover, [c.1943]; Rebecca of the Snatch, [c.1949]; Duchess of Dope, [c.1945]; 'Jews' Pellegrini, [1949]; 'Soho Spiv', [1949]; Miss Ottis Has a Daughter, [c.1949]; There's Always a Dame, [c.1949]; Queen of Crook's Harem, [1949]; Pinday and the 'White Slaver', [c.1949]; 'Dames Can Be Poison', [c.1949]; I'll Get By, [c.1949]; The Oldest Profession, [c.1952]; Beech on the Boulevard, [c.1952]; Gorilla's Moll, [c.1953]; City of Sin, [c.1952]; Baby Moll, [c.1953]; Floozie Takes Lawman, [c.1952], FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's pictorial wrappers (many signed by H.W. Perl), a few creases or light soiling, 8vo, Modern Fiction; and 64 others by Ben Sarto (c.82)Footnotes:An almost complete set of the works of 'Ben Sarto', one of the most influential of the British crime fiction writers in the 1940s. During a court trial relating to copyright between the publisher Modern Fiction Ltd and F.D. Fawcett (who wrote the early Sarto titles) in 1949, the author said for for his third book he had been inspired by 'news about kidnapping in American papers and it occurred to him to use that as the particular crime to be attacked, [and] that the title 'Rebecca of the Snatch Racket' came to him in a flash...'. Rebecca is one of the many rarities in this collection, with no copies recorded in any library collections.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMEGRIFF, Pseud. of ERNEST MCKEAG, F.L. FAWCETT [and others]. Rackets Incorporated, biro 'X' and '1/8' acro](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/c758d04e-311a-47a2-af56-ad4a00afa4b1/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMEGRIFF, Pseud. of ERNEST MCKEAG, F.L. FAWCETT [and others]. Rackets Incorporated, biro 'X' and '1/8' across upper cover, [1949]; Only Mugs Die Young, [1949]; Dope is For Dopes, [1949]; Rub-Out Speciality, biro marks just touching one letter on upper cover, [1949]; From Opium Hall to Opium Drive, upper cover with small loss lower right corner and see-through tape repair at 2 margins in side, lower cover with some tape repairs, [1950]; Trading with Bodies, issue with 160pp., [c.1950]; Stiffs Can't Squeal, 2 small losses to upper cover,[c.1950]; Hell Bomb Floozies, one corner of upper corner and spine chipped, [1951]; I Spit on Your Grave, [c.1951]; Goodbye To-Morrow, [1952]; That Room in Camden Town, [1952]; Dead Bones Don't Tell Tales, [1953]; Caribbean Cutie, [1953]; Cage of Corruption, [1953]; The Silver Key, [1953]; Main Street Morgue, [1953], ?FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's pictorial wrappers, a few creases or small snicks, 8vo, Modern Fiction Ltd; and 17 others by 'Griff' (c.34)Footnotes:'Griff' was, according to the the biographical details put out by the publisher Modern Fiction Ltd, the pseudonym of an American 'journalist of international repute who shines a searchlight on the basest motives of mankind - murder, gang war, vice!'. In fact the author of the earliest titles issued under the 'Griff' name was Ernest McKeag (1896-1974), son of an insurance salesman from Newcastle, and already a prolific author in the pulp field, most notably for the 'French' low-life tales he wrote as Roland Vane.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMEKARTA (NAT), Pseud. of JOHN WATSON [and others]. Los Angeles Be Damned, [c.1951]; A Dame Called Desire, [](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/549e3dda-3b26-4aa1-b6e6-ad4a00afa5eb/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMEKARTA (NAT), Pseud. of JOHN WATSON [and others]. Los Angeles Be Damned, [c.1951]; A Dame Called Desire, [c.1950]; The Tigress Bites, [c.1951]; To Good for the Poor, [c.1950]; Turn off the Heat, [c.1951]; The Body's Mine, [c.1951]; The Foolish Virgin, [c.1950]; The Hot Rod, [c.1952]; A Guy Named Judas, [c.1952], Glasgow, Muir-Watson; Brother Rat, [1952]; Pay-Off, [c.1952]; Jealousy, [c.1953]; The Concrete Nymph, [c.1954], Scion--ZOR (HYMAN) Passion's For Noon, [c.1950]; Call Me a Million, [c.1950]; No Shame on Jansy, [c.1950]; Lady Be Bad, [c.1950], Glasgow, Muir-Watson; Shadow of Sin, [c.1953]; Black Orchid, [c.1953]; It's a Sin, [1953]--VOGEL (HANS), Pseud. of DAIL AMBLER [and others]. Shameless, [c.1951]; Love From Las Vegas, [c.1951]; The Bad Woman, one blank corner cut away from lower cover, [c.1951], Glasgow, Muir-Watson; Jittery Dame, 35c. price label pasted on upper cover [1953]; What Comes Next, [c.1953], Scion, publisher's pictorial wrappers, a few creases, small marks, 8vo; and others including works by Nat Karta, Hyman Zoré, and Hans Vogel (c.54)Footnotes:Hard-boiled faux American crime thrillers by Nat Karta, Hyman Zore, and Hans Vogel, 'authors' first published by the Glasgow imprint of Muir-Watson. It was founded in 1949 by John Watson, a journalist on the Glasgow Herald. In 1952, disillusioned by formula and also wary of threat of prosecution under the obscenity laws, he sold the rights to the three authors' names to Scion, who commissioned established pulp writers such as Victor Norwood, John Russell Fearn and Dail Ambler to continue the successful output.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/0c9326a5-c215-4049-afb3-ad4a00afa8d0/468x382.jpg)
PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949]; Make Mine a Corpse, [1950], Make Mine Beautiful, [1949]; Satan Buys a Wreath, [1950], Stoke, Archer; Unlucky Virgin, first American edition, extreme tip of one upper cover corner torn away, Cleveland, Kaywin, [1951]; Hot Dames on Cold Slabs, first American edition, New York, Leisure Library, [1952]; Elvira Digs a Grave, [1952]; Chicago Terror, [1952]; Make Mine a Redhead, [1952], Harborough--ANGEL (ROSS), Pseud. of DONALD CRESSWELL. Dead Easy, [c.1951]; Smile Baby, Smile, [c.1951]; Over My Dead Body, [c.1951]; One-Way Trip, '2/6d.' price tab pasted on upper cover, [c.1953]; Dames Don't Dictate, [c.1952]; So Long, Johnny!, [c.1952], Scion--MARKHAM (STEVE) Alcatraz Breakout, [c.1950]; Dames Can't Wait, [c.1950]; It's Not Easy to Die, [c.1950]; The Hideout, [c.1950]; The Maltese Mob, [c.1950]; Date in Detroit, [c.1950], Art Publicity; Cornered, [c.1951]; New Orleans Wildcat, [c.1951]; I'll Take Blonde!, [c.1951], Gaywood; Dames Spell Trouble, Kaye Publications, [c.1953]--SHANNON (BRAD) The Big Snatch, [c.150]; Fall Guy, [c.1951]; The Lady's for Killing, short tear to upper cover, [c.1950]; Blues for My Baby, [1950]; So Many Dead, [c.1950]; The Countless Steps, [1952]--LUGAR (HANS) You Don't Say, Bolton Book Exchange stamp on upper cover, [1951]; Handle with Care, [1952] Midnight Sister, short tear to upper cover, [1953]--DRAYTON (RICKY) Stick or Bust!, [1953]--HANSEN (FRANK) I'll Get By, [1953]; Lady Be Bad, [1953], Scion publisher's pictorial wrappers by Heade, Ferrari, Gomez, Roger Davis, J. Pollock, and others, occasional light creases or light markings, 8vo; and 62 others by mentioned authors, R.C. Finney, and Christ Wheatley (c.100)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, mint in original dust-jacket (this with the slightest of creasing at top of spine, and lower cover with some very slight scratches/scuffs visible only under certain light), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:A fine copy of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 through to 1 on the verso of title, publisher's pictorial boards (very slightly bumped at extremities of spine, small indentation near fore-edge of lower cover), pictorial dust-jacket (very light creases at spine ends), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYALTY - EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSORThree typed letters signed ('Edward') to Major-General John Marriott, C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C., at Guards' Division Headquarters, the first thanking him for the haunch of venison ('a valuable addition to our meager rations... which we shared last night in company with Max Beaverbrook, Harold Balfour and Arthur Forbes... I have not forgotten your invitation to pay you a visit at your headquarters in Gottesberg'); the second discussing the relative merits of three potential valets ('that almost extinct profession') suggested by Marriott; the third outlining why he can not visit him in Germany to interview the candidates ('Long experience having taught me the advisability of seeking the approval of higher authority where the Army is concerned, I mentioned the project to the King the last time I was in London') and regretting that 'the security problem and general economic conditions in Germany oblige the discouragement of distinguished visitors', 3 pages, light dust staining at folds, 4to (242 x 10mm.) and smaller, 24 Boulevard Suchet, 8 December, 27 December 1945 and 24 January 1946; with a handwritten note on a printed calling card ('I hope you will enjoy Villavieja's book as much as we have – Edward')Footnotes:EXILED DUKE IN SEARCH OF A VALET. The recipient of these letters, Major-General John Charles Oakes Marriott (1895-1978), enjoyed a distinguished military career in both world wars and, at the time of this correspondence, had just been appointed General Officer Commanding of the Guards Division in Germany, a post he retained until 1947. Bearing in mind the Duke of Windsor's controversial visit with Hitler before the war it is unsurprising that his request to visit Germany even to interview potential staff met with disapproval at the palace. Back in their Paris home near the Bois de Boulogne, the Windsors led an extravagant 'quasi-royal' lifestyle well beyond their means, so their request to find a suitable valet from amongst Marriott's Guardsmen seems particularly apposite.Provenance: Adrian Pryce-Jones (1919-1968); by descent to his nephew the author David Pryce-Jones.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
THOMAS (DYLAN)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, faded early ownership inscription (dated 1941) on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, silver lettering on spine (slight fading at extremities), dust-jacket (2 tears, some losses to upper cover and extremities of spine including most of the word 'Dylan' at head, spotting to lower cover, lower joint torn and with loss at corners of folds), preserved in modern drop-back box, gilt morocco lettering label on spine, 8vo, Dent, [1940]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, this copy unnumbered, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Ex-libris depicting two scenes of the figure of death, in one roped to a mountaineer, the other seated with a man beside a table on which stands a microscope, the lower part of the plate worn away.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WORLD WAR I - ROYAL FLYING CORPSTwo autograph letters from Jim Davison of the Royal Flying Corps signed ('Jim Davison'), to Captain Duncan Warrand, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders ('My dear Warrand'), the first reporting that due to the fine weather there has been a lot of flying and describing a dog-fight with a German plane ('...Had a bit of a dust-up with a couple of Huns the other day. One dived on me from behind... The first that we knew was getting the machine all shot up; one or two through the cushion the pilot was sitting on & the tail and fuselage all shot up. By the time I had got the gun the Hun was too far overhead to give a fair shot. Had a very bad gun-mounting or could have got him... the other a bit higher up waiting till [I] had emptied the gun & all ready to dive... We turned round pretty quick towards him & the Hun followed us round... & then turned off & joined his pal... I didn't fire as we should likely want all our ammunition as we had the shoot to finish & they would be pretty certain to attack again. So I shouted across to the pilot to ask if he was alright... he shut off the engine to hear what I was saying & then it wouldn't start again... when we got down we found the old bus was badly shot about... Flying is a topping game but it is a better summer amusement than winter one...'), with envelope, 4 pages, light dust staining, 8vo (180 x 140mm.), [no place], 18 February [19]17; the second complaining of his '...rotten job which what they called Artillery Intelligence Officer which meant scratching away in a book and looking carefully at all photographs... with absolutely nil results...', pleased to be flying again with new machines ('...6 Huns came after us but we just turned away home... I wasn't wanting any scrap against 6 of them...'), with envelope, 4 pages, light dust staining, 8vo (180 x 140mm.), [no place], 15 May [19]17; with another from 'Jimmy' reporting on casualties and news of the Seaforths from the Front ('...at what cost we gained the ground... on 2nd May we had a gas attack, & it cost us many men... It's all too ghastly, old chap! & it makes me mad to think that our old country is still fast asleep. I hope America will be drawn in... everyone feels the strain of this campaign...'), 7 pages, 8vo (150 x 102mm.), with envelope, [no place], 10 June [19]15 (3)Footnotes:'FLYING IS A TOPPING GAME': a young pilot in the newly formed Royal Flying Corps describes an encounter with the enemy over France.The Royal Flying Corps, founded only in 1912, was initially responsible for the manning and operation of observation balloons on the Western Front, and was later involved in air support, aerial reconnaissance, and artillery observation. At the time our correspondent was writing, casualty rates were particularly high for new pilots, with their involvement in the Battle of Arras known as 'Bloody April'.Provenance: Captain Duncan Warrand and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ASHENDENE PRESSMORE (THOMAS) A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle called Utopia ... translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robynson.. Anno MDLI, ONE OF 20 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an overall edition of 120, printed 'in Subiaco type by St John Hornby, with the help of Meysey Turton and G. Faulkner', the chapter headings and printed marginalia in red, shoulder notes in black, the initial capitals (six-line down to two-line) in red designed by Eric Gill, original brown morocco over wooden boards by W.H. Smith bindery (signed on rear turn-in), spine compartments lettered and dated in gilt, with repeated foliate decoration in blind and gilt extending from bands onto sides, slight waterstain to upper cover, soft brown cloth slipcase, small folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1906Footnotes:LIMITED TO 20 COPIES ON VELLUM: 'This is a splendid Utopia, with red side-notes, initials and chapter titles, a contrast with the Kelmscott version. On a page of this size the Ashendene Subiaco is very readable and so well within the capabilities of the Press as to prepare the way for larger endeavours' (Colin Franklin, Ashendene Press p.237). Sydney Cockerell and Emery Walker received complimentary copies, the first considering it as the best book Hornby had done, whilst Franklin considered the paper copies 'a poor relation, imperfectly inked. It is of course a noble book in either form, on vellum the red especially memorable'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
OVID - ANTONIO TEMPESTAMetamorphoseon sive tranformationium Ovidianarum libri... Antonio Tempesta inventor, engraved pictorial title, 149 engraved plates (of 150, lacking plate 47), each with title and 4-line verse in French, light dampstain in margin of 16 plates, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, small oblong 4to (170 x 210mm.), Paris, Baltazar Moncornet, [c.1625]Footnotes:A fine series of engravings by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses. First published in Amsterdam in 1606 with captions in Latin, this Paris edition has the captions printed in French.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![CHISWICK PRESS[MORRIS (WILLIAM) and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON, translators]. The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/0ad5b81d-edd3-4269-b28a-ad4a00b042d9/468x382.jpg)
CHISWICK PRESS[MORRIS (WILLIAM) and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON, translators]. The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald. Even as Ari Thirgilson the Learned/the Priest/hath Told it, LIMITED TO 75 COPIES, THIS A PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM DE MORGAN, inscribed 'from Jane Morris in memory of Kelmscott' on front free endpaper, printed in Gothic letter, light offsetting from first and last pages onto facing blank, untrimmed in original holland-backed boards, slight wear to spine ends, housed in red morocco-backed slipcase with gilt-lettered spine, 4to, Chiswick Press for William Morris, 1891Footnotes:'IN MEMORY OF KELMSCOTT': PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM DE MORGAN, TOUCHINGLY INSCRIBED BY JANE MORRIS.The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue was translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris. In addition to translating it, Morris also designed a new typeface which he thought suitable for the tone of the work. However, after a small print run, he abandoned the idea as the typeface was proving so hard to read. He also left spaces at the beginning of each chapter for the intended initial letters, but on the whole these were never supplied.Provenance: William de Morgan, inscribed to him by Jane Morris; C.G. Stirling, ownership inscription on front paste-down. Stirling was the husband of A.M.W. Stirling (1865-1965), author, sister of the painter Evelyn De Morgan, and founder of the De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society in Wandsworth.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOVES PRESSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., each limited to 300 copies on paper, from editions limited to 325, marginal glosses and portions of text printed in red, hand-painted initials in red and blue by Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt, a little very light foxing at edges of first and last few leaves, bound in richly decorated tawny morocco gilt by THE DOVES PRESS BINDERY (signed on rear turn-ins 'The Doves Bindery 19 C-S 06 [-08]'), sides with an all-over interweaving floral pattern within an outer border containing quotations from the text, gilt tooled and lettered spines with repeated floral tool, morocco turn-ins with gilt trefoil in corners, g.e., very skilfully rebacked retaining the original spines, preserved in red velvet-lined morocco solander box with volume separator, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1902-1905Footnotes:A 'BREATHTAKING MASTERPIECE' IN A FINE DOVES PRESS BINDING. 'Johnston's red initial letters, often lying outside the text area to the Left, were quite unconventional and they can still carry the force of invention. Mr. Ronald Briggs wrote recently of Johnston's opening to the first book of the Doves Press 'Paradise Lost': 'The elements of this masterpiece are utterly simple and purely typographic, but the first glimpse of it as the page is turned is breathtaking'... The book in which the initials are drawn rather than printed give special pleasure; and of them one thinks first of 'Paradise Lost' where each book of the Poem, apart from the complex opening Mr. Briggs mentioned, has drawn initials' (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, p.107).The present volumes were bound in 1906 and 1908 respectively, presumably on commission or for a private collector. Although signed 'C-S', the bindings are likely to have been finished by Charles McLeish, their intricate designs showing the influence of William Morris and contrasting with the simplicity of the typography.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOVES PRESSThe English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First 5 vol., ONE OF 500 COPIES ON PAPER, PRESENTATION COPY FROM EMERY WALKER TO PHILIP WEBB, inscribed in each volume 'to Philip Webb/ from Emery Walker/ June 13. 1903 [-Oct. 15 1904 (volumes 2-3); Sept. 16 1905 (volumes 4-5)]' and in volume 1 only 'from Emery Walker given to me/ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in memory/ of Philip Webb. June 1915', printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker with initials by Edward Johnston printed in red, untrimmed in original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, gilt lettered spines, some slight soiling and discolouration as usual, a little browning to bottom edges, cream cloth slipcases, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1903-1905Footnotes:FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE DOVES PRESS BIBLE - EACH VOLUME INSCRIBED ON COMPLETION BY EMERY WALKER TO 'THE FATHER OF ARTS AND CRAFTS ARCHITECTURE', PHILIP WEBB.The English Bible is the only folio printed by Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press. Described by Colin Franklin as the Press's 'magnum opus' (The Private Presses), it was printed using the font designed by Walker, the matrices, punches and type of which were later infamously thrown into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge by Cobden-Sanderson, following the bitter dispute between the two printers. Walker had very close ties with Philip Webb, his house in Chiswick still containing furniture and glass by Webb, who had been a partner in Morris & Co. along with William Morris, Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.Provenance: Philip Webb, inscribed to him by Emery Walker on fly-leaf of each volume; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, inscription below Emery Walker's on fly-leaf of volume 1.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOVES PRESSWORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) A Decade of Years. Poems... 1798-1807, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 212, printed by T.J. Cobden Sanderson in red and black, with loosely inserted printed bifolium 'Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry... 28 December 1914', red cloth slipcase, 1911--CARLYLE (THOMAS) Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh, one of 300 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 315, printed in red and black with initials designed by Edward Johnston in red, slight cockling of endpapers, 1907, both untrimmed in original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, spines titled in gilt, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, D.L. James, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOVES PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Tragedy of Coriolanus, ONE OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an edition limited to 215, printed in red and black by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, slight rippling to first few leaves, bound in original limp vellum at the Doves Bindery (stamped at rear), gilt lettered spine, covers a little bowed and slight crease to spine, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1914This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSCOPPARD (A.E.) Clorinda Walks in Heaven, NUMBER 19 OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 690, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper 'For J.R.T. Morris/ With best wishes/ A.E. Coppard', and with a quatrain by Thomas Hardy in Coppard's hand below, untrimmed in original linen-backed boards with paper spine label, some browning to spine ends, 1922; Adam & Eve & Pinch Me, FIRST EDITION, one of 340 copies in orange boards from an edition limited to 550, first gathering slightly loose, stain to upper cover, spine faded, slipcase, 1921, 8vo, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press (2)Footnotes:The rare first and fourth books produced by the fledgling Golden Cockerel Press, and the first two books of stories published by Coppard.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DAVID JONESSWIFT (JONATHAN) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, 2 vol., NUMBER 26 OF 30 COPIES on hand-made paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, from an overall edition of 450, wood-engraved maps, illustrations and initials by David Jones, many hand-coloured, slight browning of endpapers, untrimmed in original cream buckram, gilt lettered spines, cover of volume 2 slightly bubbled near spine, 4to, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925Footnotes:The first book to be illustrated by David Jones for the Golden Cockerel Press.Provenance: Geoffrey Ecroyd (1935-1961), bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem... the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, number 138 of 196 copies on paper, from an overall edition limited to 200, wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, untrimmed in original black half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf with marbled paper sides by Sydney Cockerell, spine gilt, t.e.g., slight rubbing to sides, buckram slipcase (rubbed and soiled), folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - CLIFFORD WEBBBANNET (IVOR) The Amazons. A Novel... Engravings by Clifford Webb, NUMBER 68 OF 80 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the author and illustrator, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Clifford Webb, untrimmed in original brown crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt blocked illustration on covers, spine with raised bands, slipcase, folio, 1948--The First Crusade.... Translated... by Somerset de Chair, NUMBER 75 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the translator, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Webb, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt blocked illustration on covers, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1945---SOMERSET (DE CHAIR) The Story of a Lifetime, number 39 of 100 copies signed by the author, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Webb, untrimmed in original white sheepskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt design on upper cover, slight soiling, slipcase, folio, 1954--WELLS (H.G.) The Country of the Blind 1939, number 175 of 280 copies, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations (some full-page) by Webb, original orange vellum-backed brown cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to, [1949], Golden Cockerel Press (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSDE CHAIR (SOMERSET) Julius Caesar's Commentaries... Engravings by Clifford Webb, NUMBER 5 OF 70 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the editor and artist, from an edition limited to 320, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Clifford Webb, slight browning at edges of first and last few leaves, original dark red crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt emblem on covers, t.e.g., small folio, 1951; The Golden Carpet, NUMBER 17 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, portrait, 1943; The Silver Crescent, NUMBER 12 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, plates, original prospectus tipped-in on front map endpaper, 1943, the last 2 from editions limited to 500 copies, signed by the author and bound in original full green and blue (respectively) crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe--LAWRENCE (T.E.) Men in Print, number 307 of 500 copies, leather book label of Austin Smith, original blue morocco-backed cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1940, 4to, all t.e.g., others uncut, spines very slightly faded, all but the first in slipcases, Golden Cockerel Press (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREGYNOG PRESS - BINDINGVAUGHAN (HENRY) Poems, number 166 of 500 copies, initials in red, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, specially bound in crushed blue morocco by Carl Hanson at the National Library of Wales (signed in gilt at rear), sides with ornamental gilt borders, gilt panelled spine with similar tools and raised bands, blue morocco turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1924Footnotes:BOUND BY THE FIRST HEAD OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES BINDERY. Carl August Hanson (1872-1961) was born in Oslo and came to London in 1898 to seek work as a bookbinder. He found a post at Zaehnsdorf in Shaftsbury Avenue, and three years later he moved to Riviere and Sons in Regent Street, where he stayed for 10 years. The move to the recently opened National Library of Wales came in 1911, when they urgently needed an experienced craftsman to repair and rebind many of the rare manuscripts and books in the collections donated by Sir John Williams.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREGYNOG PRESS - BINDINGDAVIES (W.H.) Selected Poems... Arranged by Edward Garnett, number 150 of 310 copies on Japanese vellum, wood-engraved portrait by R.A. Maynard after Augustus John, specially bound in brown crushed morocco by Carl Hanson at the National Library of Wales (signed in gilt at rear), covers with gilt rule and strapwork border enclosing decorative gilt round centrepiece with inlaid red morocco border, gilt panelled and lettered spine with raised bands, morocco turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1928Footnotes:BOUND BY CARL HANSON, THE FIRST HEAD OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES BINDERY. See lot 275 for another Hanson binding.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR 1878-1881Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920) of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), relating to his service in India during the second Afghan Campaign of 1878-1881, comprising:i) Two army regimental order books for 'Troop B', written in ink in several hands, volume one detailing daily orders from 17 September to 28 November 1879, volume two continuing until 23 March 1880, mostly covering the minutiae of camp life such as the daily timetable ('...Reveille 6.30, Stables 7...'), parades and inspections, court martials, lists of men and support staff ('...grass cutters... native farriers... cooks...'), the care and exercising of horses ('...Horses heels will be thoroughly dried with rubbers...'), uniform ('...the kharki jacket to be worn over the patrol jacket... 2 pairs of cloth pantaloons if possible...'), equipment ('...owing to the destruction of saddlery &c by white ants in future the saddles will be placed on a portion of the hoop grass in piles of 6...'), ammunition ('...any man losing it will be severely delt with...'), welfare of the men ('...All men off duty will... be marched to the left bank of the Cabul River for bathing...'), preparations to move camp ('...not more than 3 horses length distance to be between each troop...'), the troops ready for action ('...After orders by Capt. Burnley. Every Man will sleep tonight with his cloak Belts & Arms on ready to turn out at a moments notice...'), including mention of their involvement at the Battle of Gara Heights at Dakka on 15 January 1880 ('...The Commanding Officer begs to thank most heartily the Officers and men... for their steady and soldier like bearing when exposed to the fire of the enemy this day... the patrol and scouting duties (the later especially) were entirely carried out to his satisfaction, likewise the dismounted skirmishing...'), final entries reversed, c.470pp, some pages excised, 'Bengal Form 358' notebooks, original calf with printed paper labels ('Order Book'), brass clasps (broken), worn with some ink stains, oblong 4to (120 x 180mm.), Umballa, Camp Basawal, Camp Jellalabad, September 1879 to March 1880ii) Group of six autograph letters signed ('Hardin Burnley') to his father ('My dear Father'), the first commenting on bad news from the Cape ('...if we do not learn a lesson now... Afghanistan may furnish us with a like tale...') and that they must not underestimate the natives' fighting capabilities, with envelope; the second in pencil describing escorting the deposed Emir, Mohammad Yaqub Khan into exile in December 1879 ('...with my squadron 80 men & 4 officers... he only halted 20 minutes... sitting on a chair with his attendants on the road side – I got aides to ride on his right hand side all the way... this I did for 2 days – He was most communicative and chatted on all topics freely... no attack was made on us – all well... most shocking dust storm... carrying away some tents & nearly suffocating everyone...'); the next reporting on '...serious fighting Kabul way...', that they will soon have to relieve the 9th Lancers, skirmishes with locals ('...met with no resistance... otherwise the guns were in position... & would have shelled the village at once...'), believing they will be 'in this inhospitable' country for the long haul, talking of disease and casualties ('...considering this is but Guerrilla warfare.. it is grand training...'), and asking if he received the tiger and panther skins; one written 6 August 1880 on the eve of joining General Gough as his ADC on the Kandahar march ('...I leave here tomorrow... If the Afghans get hold of me I wish you to send to my servant... £50... I have given him this letter to give to you if anything should happen to me...'); another expressing pleasure at receiving two medals and clasps, talking of parties, shooting and other entertainments, with envelope; the last on social engagements in London, 41 pages, 8vo (180 x 114mm.), Umballa, Basawal, Cabul, Naval & Military Club, Piccadilly, 13 February 1879 to [23 May 1881] iii) Three autograph letters from General Sir Hugh Gough signed ('Hugh Gough'), reminiscing '...I hope you have not forgotten our old days on the Kabul Kandahar March. I look back to them with much pleasure and can never forget the best ADC I ever had – I wish I could have more of my old soldiering days over again...'; one thanking him for the grouse; each with envelope, 8 pages, 8vo (150 x 95mm.), Canterbury, August [18]93; one other earlier letter, undated iv) Other papers, including pocket almanack for 1878 containing troop and staff rolls, with pencilled notes on orders, rates of pay, bets with other officers, notable skirmishes ('...the attack on village near Peswar took place early morning of 6th July. Rpt 2 squadrons got up too late...'), rations ('...1 lb Bread & Biscuit/ 1 dram of rum...') etc., c.60 pages, some pages roughly excised, calf with broken brass clasp and integral pencil, small 8vo; official request from Burnley to Lieut. Col. John Fryer, commanding the Carabiniers at Simla that he should be '...employed on active service with any expeditionary force that may be deployed to the Frontier...', one page, folio (332 x 208mm.), Umballa, 25 September 1878; portrait cabinet photograph of a young Burnley in civilian dress; various loose notes, incoming correspondence, etc. including a typed biography annotated 'Some incidents of my life'v) The Khandahar Pantomime Ayoub Khan. Written and composed by Mr F. C. Keyser and now printed by special request, original blue mottled paper wrappers, 8vo (180 x 105mm.), Poona, Printed at the Orphanage Press, 1884; two folding maps printed on linen: 'Afghan'... Enlarged at the Survey Office in Dehra Dun October 1878, 870 x 655mm., annotated in ink by Burnley; and 'Istan' by Col. J. T. Walker, Surveyor General of India, 890 x 655mm., with routes marked in red crayonFootnotes:Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920) was gazetted Cornet in the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) in 1865. After several years in Ireland, he was posted to the Umballa station in India in 1878 where duties consisted of escort and transport tasks along the Khyber lines of communication. Whilst commanding a squadron at Basowal, following the murder of the political agent Cavagnari and the failure of the Treaty of Gandamak, he was charged with accompanying the deposed Emir Yaqub Khan into exile in India. He was present at the affair at Dakka on 15 January 1880, as mentioned in our notebook, before rejoining the Headquarters of the Regiment at Jellalabad. In August 1880 he was appointed Orderly Officer to the Cavalry Brigadier, General Sir Hugh Gough and with the Cavalry Brigade accompanied Lt. General Sir Frederick Roberts on his famous, impressively fast, march from Kabul to Kandahar, and was present at the battle of Kandahar on 1st September. He was the only member of the regiment to receive a bronze star for this epic journey and was mentioned in despatches.After the Afghan campaign, Major Burnley saw service in the first Boer campaign (see lot 13) and retired in 1882, receiving the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in consideration of his distinguished service during the Afghan War. In June 1907 he became a real-life Phileas Fogg by circumnavigating the globe in 40 days, 19 hours and 30 minutes, breaking the previous record of 54 days, a record which he held for four years. His papers have been in the possession of his family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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KELMSCOTT PRESS[The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye], 4-page specimen on a single bifolium, printed in red and black, including the first page of the book with decorative initial, second page with initial, and colophon with press-mark, untrimmed as issued, folio (285 x 208mm.), Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1892For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
KELMSCOTT PRESS - BINDINGMORRIS (WILLIAM) The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men, one of 250 copies on paper, printed in Troy type in red and black, 23 wood-engraved illustrations by A. Leverett after Walter Crane, wood-engraved title, borders, half borders, ornaments and initial letters after Morris, ELABORATE INLAID BLUE MOROCCO BINDING by Riviere & Son (signed on front turn-in), probably by De Sauty, sides with elaborate gilt mosaic-style tooling enclosed by very wide borders and circular centrepieces with pomegranate and foliage design composed of maroon, red, tan and green inlays and pointille, spine in 6 compartments, 4 gilt lettered and the others with similar pomegranate and foliage inlaid design, green watered silk endpapers, blue and tan morocco gilt turn-ins with pomegranates at corners and ornate borders. t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in silk and felt-lined black straight-grained morocco fitted case (gilt ruled, rubbed at extremities), 4to (294 x 216mm.), Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894Footnotes:A MAGNIFICENTLY SUMPTUOUS RIVIERE BINDING, PROBABLY FINISHED BY ALFRED DE SAUTY.The Story of the Glittering Plain, in many ways a precursor to Brave New World and modern-day fantasy literature, was first published by the Press two years earlier, in 1892. Walter Crane had been commissioned to produce the illustrations for that edition, but took so long that Morris became impatient and published it without the intended wood-engravings. Crane did finally complete his illustrations, and Morris published the present edition, which was to be the artist's only work for Kelmscott.Alfred De Sauty (1870-1949) was the subject of an essay by Marianne Tidcombe entitled 'The Mysterious Mr. De Sauty', published in For the Love of the Binding. Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot (2000), pp.329-336. She notes that 'the first non-trade bookbinder, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, emerged in the 1880's... he was followed by hundreds of women, but only two male binders of any significance: Douglas Cockerell and Alfred De Sauty'. Inspired by seeing illustrations of the bindings of Cobden-Sanderson in an issue of The Studio, he soon found work at the Hampstead Bindery and Guild of Women Binders, and may also have trained under P. A. Savoldelli at Riviere. De Sauty was responsible for some of the best designs of the two binderies, and carried out all the stages of the craft himself, from sewing to the designing and exceptionally delicate tooling of the covers. The present example bears similarities to another in the Catalogue of the Broxbourne Library (no.110), and to others where the use of pointille is prominent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
KELMSCOTT PRESSMORRIS (WILLIAM) and A.J. WYATT, translators. The Tale of Beowulf, one of 300 copies on Perch paper, from an edition limited to 308, printed in red and black with text in Troy type and glossary etc. in Chaucer type, wood-engraved title, facing page with full woodcut border, decorative page borders throughout and large initials, designed by Morris, without Note to Reader slip, untrimmed in original limp vellum with khaki-coloured silk ties, gilt lettered spine, covers slightly soiled and bowed (as usual), 4to, Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1895Footnotes:'The first and the best poem of the English race, [with] no author but the people' (William Morris). The work was one of Morris's favourites and the translation - 'done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris & A.J. Wyatt' - took over two years.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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