BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 213 OF 300 COPIES, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with 'W.H.S.' stamp inside upper cover), t.e.g., small repair touching one word of lettering on spine, a few small abrasions, 4to (320 x 280mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905Footnotes:Burne-Jones began his series of 'Flower Book' designs in 1882, working upon them until his death in 1898. 'The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work' (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the preface).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
We found 596780 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 596780 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
596780 item(s)/page
CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state with errata slip, half-title, frontispiece, 6 maps (2 folding), tissue guards, 32-page catalogue at end, some spotting, publisher's green cloth, light soiling [Woods A1(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1898Footnotes:First edition of the author's first published book.Provenance: ?M.E. Woods, early ownership inscription on the half-title.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 River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, half-titles, 7 photogravure portraits (including frontispieces), 24 maps (20 folding), illustrations in the text, spotting, publisher's dark blue pictorial cloth gilt [Woods A2(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1899Footnotes:First edition of Churchill's second published book, published in an edition of 2000 copies.Provenance: Louis Kelly, Liverpool, early ownership inscription on half-titles; C.H. Brackenbury, purchase receipt from Bernard Quaritch, 12 May 1970 loosely inserted; by family descent to present owner.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.)Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, first English edition, advertisement leaf at end [Woods A3(b)], Longmans, 1900; London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria, 4 maps (3 folding), 32pp. advertisements at end [Woods A4], Longmans, 1900; Ian Hamilton's March, frontispiece, one folding map, 32pp. advertisements at end [Wood A5], Longmans, 1900; Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces [Woods A8(a)], Macmillan, 1906; My African Journey, frontispiece and plates, 16pp. advertisements at end [Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; Liberalism and the Social Problem, [Woods A15], Hodder & Stoughton, 1909; The World Crisis, 5 vol. in 6, folding maps, errata slip tipped-in in volume 1, bookplate of John Batten Pooll in volume 1 [Woods A31(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1923-1931]; My Early Life. A Roving Commission, frontispiece and plates [WoodsA37(a)], Thornon Butterworth, [1930]; Thoughts and Adventures, first English edition, frontispiece [Woods A30(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1932], FIRST EDITIONS unless otherwise stated, some spotting, publisher's cloth, the second and fifth mentioned pictorial, some rubbing or fading, 8vo; and 27 others by Churchill (42)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)Arms and the Covenant. Speeches... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY CHURCHILL 'Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, June 1938' with Randolph Churchill's signature beneath on front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (clipped and worn with some losses) [Woods A44(a)], 8vo, George S. Harrap, [1938]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
COHEN (LEONARD)Let Us Compare Mythologies... Drawings by Freda Guttman, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 5 plates by Guttman, publisher's black cloth, silver gilt lettering on spine, pink pictorial dust-jacket (uneven fading, spine split at joints with one horizontal tear), 8vo, Printed in Montreal, and Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, Toronto, 1956Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF LEONARD COHEN'S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Approximately 400 copies were printed, under the editorship of Louis Dudek of McGill University, with the purpose 'to present to the university community and the public the work of young writers at McGill of out standing ability'.Provenance: Neville Linton, McGill Union, ownership inscription dated May 1956 on front free endpaper.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
CUNARD (NANCY, EDITOR)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, lacks the map, short marginal tear to 4 or 5 leaves, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934Footnotes:'It was necessary to make this book - and I think in this manner, an Anthology of some 150 voices of both races - for recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro people' (Foreword). The contributors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Crowder, and Countee Cullen. It is thought that 1000 copies were printed, but it is always stated that many of these were destroyed in a warehouse during the Blitz.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'A Charade, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson from the Author. A memento of Dec. 19 1889', cyclostyled pamphlet, 4pp. (one blank), 2 illustrations in the text, loose as issued [Madan and Green 100, 'A singular and rare piece'], 8vo, [Privately printed], 1878; Christmas Greeting. [From a Fairy to a Child], first separate printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. A memento of Xmas, 1889', one sheet [Madan and Green 162], 16mo, [Macmillan, 1884]--An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice.', PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. Eastertide, 1890', 3pp. [Madan and Green 90.7], 16mo., [?1885]; 'Imagination', AUTOGRAPH MIRROR-WRITING RIDDLE, 7 lines, comprising title and 3-line question and answer, written in mirror-writing, inscribed on reverse 'Hilda Margaret Johnson with the affectionate regards of Lewis Carroll, Ap. 16. 1890', in original miniature envelope addressed by Dodgson to 'Miss H.M. Johnson', 53 x 53mm., [16 April 1890], all inscribed in purple ink (4)Footnotes:'WHAT! DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR ALPHABET? - AN AUTOGRAPH RIDDLE IN MIRROR-WRITING, inscribed in purple ink by Dodgson, along with a group of ephemeral works, to a seventeen-year old schoolchild involved in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. The riddle, reading 'Imagination. Q. But what does 'followed by a bird' mean? A. What! Don't you know your Alphabet?', can be read when held up to a mirror, and is held in a miniature envelope. Charmingly illustrated Dodgson's Charade is described by Madan and Green as 'a singular and rare piece'.Hilda Margaret Johnson helped in a theatrical production of 'Alice in Wonderland' put on at the Edgbaston High School for Girls (Birmingham) on 19 December 1889, at which Dodgson was present. He noted in his diary for that day, 'I rashly offered to tell 'Bruno's Picnic' afterwards to the little children, thinking I should have an audience of 40 or 50, mostly children, instead of which I had to tell it from the stage to an audience of about 280, mostly older girls and grown-up people!... The evening began with some of 'Julius Caesar' in German. This and 'Alice' were really capitally acted, the White Queen being quite the best I have seen... I was introduced to Alice and a few more, and was quite sorry to hear afterwards that the other performers wanted to shake hands' .Provenance: Hilda Margaret Johnson (1873-1959), each item inscribed by Dodgson, retained in an old envelope addressed to Mrs Hilda M. Rendall (Hilda's married name), with a note in her hand 'Lewis Carroll sent me these in remembrance of E.H.S.S. Xmas performance of Alice in Wonderland. I was a producer'; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DRINKWATER - COLLECTIONAlbum containing autograph letters, signed menus, photographs and other ephemera, assembled for Penelope Ann Drinkwater, daughter of poet and dramatist John Drinkwater, from her birth in 1929 to her fifth birthday, comprising: notes written by the Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII) for his speech at the Stage Golfing Society Dinner, Savoy Hotel, 2 November 1930 ('Handicapp/ B-DARWIN/ Filthy golfer/ Filthy speaker/ Keep pun clean') accompanied by an explanatory letter from Drinkwater ('...I was the guest of Sir Gerald du Maurier who sat between me and the Prince of Wales... The response was made by the Prince, and he put his notes on two sheets of paper. These were pocketed by Sir Gerald, and he gave me one of these for you... another scrap of history in a tiny way for you when you are growd up...'); some fifty autograph and typed letters by Edward Elgar (thanking him for the 'exquisite Penelope's Trees – a beautifully inspired poem'), Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy (including a poem in her honour), Hugh Walpole, Joan Sutherland, Sybil Thorndike, Harold Nicholson, William Rothenstein, Herbert Hoover (two on White House headed paper), E.G. Robinson, Ramsay Macdonald, and others; a menu from the Savoy Hotel, 24 June 1930, signed by Drinkwater, J.B. Priestley, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Edgar Wallace, Desmond Macarthy and others, with another from a dinner on 19 September 1930 inscribed by Max Beerbohm ('...to dear little Penelope Anne. I know she is little because she is so young. And I know she is a dear because I know her parents...'); ephemera including a programme for Drinkwater's play A Man's House signed by the cast (with Errol Flynn as 'First Soldier'), telegrams of congratulations (including James Joyce and John Galsworthy), a printed copy of Drinkwater's 1930 poem Penelope's Trees, inscribed 'This copy is darling Penelope's own/ John Drinkwater', numerous photographs and press cuttings of the family, etc., 31 leaves, brown calf gilt stamped 'Penelope Ann Drinkwater/ July 26 1929' on upper cover, binding scuffed and stained, burn marks to spine, oblong folio (265 x 365mm.), 1929 to 1934; with a folder of c.100 loose autograph and typed letters by H.G. Wells (postcard, '...warmest thanks for the poem. It's a nice habit this poetry...' and autograph letter to Miss Jeffreys sending love to Penny, '...I think she is a dear...'), a pencil drawing annotated 'sketch by T.H. [Thomas Hardy] of a hay-knife', Edmund Blunden ('...I would like you to leave me out of your anthology...'), Vita Sackville West ('...She seems to be a fruitful source of inspiration to you...'), Eddie Marsh, Shane Leslie, Stefan Zweig, and others; printed Churchill address from 25 April 1925 with covering letter, typed transcripts of letters by Rupert Brooke and others in folder annotated 'sold to America', c.160 pages, 8vo and 4to; original cartoon by David Low signed ('Low'), titled 'Situation Vacant', depicting Drinkwater, Masefield, Kipling, Edith Sitwell and other possible candidates for the post of Poet Laureate lining up to see the Prime Minister ('W.B. Yeats and W.H. Davies arriving by the next bus'), labelled 'The Property of Penelope Ann Drinkwater' on reverse, pen, ink and coloured pencil, image 295 x 450mm., (457 x 610mm. with frame), published in the Evening Standard, 28 April 1930 and in The Best of Low, 1930 (3)Footnotes:'ANOTHER SCRAP OF HISTORY IN A TINY WAY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE GROWD UP': An album assembled by the poet and dramatist John Drinkwater for his daughter, celebrating the first years of her life with a collection of letters and ephemera from literary and political figures of the day, and including an encounter with royalty. Despite being in the running for Poet Laureate, as the Low cartoon included here suggests, the position was taken by John Masefield after the death of Robert Bridges in April 1930. The collection comes from the family of Penelope Drinkwater.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![ELIOT (T.S.)The Waste-Land, [in] The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.50-64, FIRST EDITION, untrimmed and pa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/5624e3ae-0563-48c4-a31d-ac8d00ced6b2/468x382.jpg)
ELIOT (T.S.)The Waste-Land, [in] The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.50-64, FIRST EDITION, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's printed wrappers, dampstaining to edges of upper cover, spine and lower cover, yapp edges with some chips and tears [Gallup C135], 8vo, Richard Cobden Sanderson, October 1922Footnotes:The first appearance of The Waste Land, in the first issue of The Criterion, the literary periodical founded and edited by Eliot. This preceded the poem's New York publication in The Dial, and its separate issue.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
FLEMING (IAN)Casino Royale, second impression, dust-jacket 'A', signed by Kenneth Lewis on front flap, price-clipped, 1953; Live and Let Die, second state, second issue dust-jacket, signed by Kenneth Lewis on front flap, neat restorations at the extremities of spine and corners, 1953; Moonraker, state B with the correct spelling of 'shoot' on p.10, very short tear at fore-edge of title, 1955; Diamonds Are Forever, dust-jacket restored, 1956; From Russia, With Love, extremities of spine neatly restored, dust-jacket similarly restored 1957; Dr. No, second state with 'Honeychile' silhouette on upper cover, 1958; Goldfinger, ink ownership name (1959) on front free endpaper, dust-jacket price-clipped, 1959; For Your Eyes Only, 1960; Thunderball, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, dust-jacket price-clipped, 1962; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, plain cloth covers, dust-jacket price-clipped, 1965; Octopussy and The Living Daylights, dust-jacket price-clipped, 1966, FIRST EDITIONS, all but the first mentioned first impressions, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets, 8vo, Jonathan Cape (14)Footnotes:A COMPLETE SET OF IAN FLEMING'S BOND BOOKS, ALL FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, the first two titles signed by the dust-jacket designer Kenneth Lewis.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
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/524032c8-3f98-4558-99c0-ac8e00c68d7b/468x382.jpg)
[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, rubbed (with small loss at extremities of spine) [Sadleir 936; Wolff 2428, 'a really superb novel, the author's best'], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1866Footnotes:Forster's copy of Wives and Daughters, a book he considered Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece. The literary critic James McConkey recalls a meeting they had in which 'For the greater part... we talked about novels we both liked and novels he thought I would like, such as Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters' ('Two Anonymous Writers. E.M. Forster and Anton Chekov', in Das and Beer, 1979).Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed 'E.M. Forster, King's College, Cambridge' on front free endpaper of volume 1, and book label 'This book belongs to E.M. Forster' in both volumes; given to his friend Eric Fletcher.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
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/02412466-df4a-4383-b0dd-ac8d00ced95b/468x382.jpg)
[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [the author?], at 107 Eaton Square, June 14 1904', light spotting publisher's cloth, 8vo, Archibald Constable, 1904Footnotes:'Could one claim Belchamber as some kind of cryptic gay novel, in the way that Forster's books, while dealing with matters of heterosexual love and marriage, are quirkily animated and destabilised by his own non-heterosexual viewpoint?' (Alan Hollinghurst, review of Belchamber, London Review of Books, 9 October 2008). In 1935 Forster acknowledged his debt to Sturgis' novel in an essay, later collected in Abinger Harvest, in which he described it as a 'Classic', whilst acknowledging it was 'unlikely ever to be read again'. It has been, NYRB republishing it in 2008 with an introduction by Edmund White.Provenance: E.M. Forster, gifted to his friend Eric Fletcher.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
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]GOLDING (WILLIAM) Lord the Flies... Introduction by E.M. Forster, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E.M. FORSTER,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/6da4cd87-56ec-4988-a781-ac8d00ceda1a/468x382.jpg)
[FORSTER (E.M.)]GOLDING (WILLIAM) Lord the Flies... Introduction by E.M. Forster, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E.M. FORSTER, inscribed 'For E.M. Forster from William Golding in Gratitude and Pride' in pencil on opening leaf, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (spine dulled with small losses at extremities), 8vo, New York, Coward-McCann, 1962Footnotes:E.M. FORSTER'S COPY OF LORD OF THE FLIES, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED 'IN GRATITUDE AND PRIDE' BY WILLIAM GOLDING. Forster, an early supporter of the book when first published in 1954, provided a lengthy introduction for this edition, stating 'It is a pleasure and an honour to write an introduction to this remarkable book... Lord of the Flies is a very serious book which has to be introduced seriously... It is written with taste and liveliness, the talk is natural, the descriptions of scenery enchanting. It is certainly not a comforting book. But it may help a few grownups to be less complacent and more compassionate....'. The introduction led to a warm correspondence between the two authors, several meetings, and a continued friendship.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
FORSTER (E.M.)The Hill of Devi being Letters from Dewas State Senior, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric with Morgan's Love. Oct. 1953', Edward Arnold, 1953; Collected Short Stories, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric Fletcher from Morgan Forster, Jul. 1948. K.C.C.', Sidgwick & Jackson, [1947]; The Development of English Prose Between 1918 and 1939, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric Fletcher from E.M. Forster, Feb. 25 1948. K.C.C.', publisher's wrappers, Glasgow, Jackson, 1945--TRILLING (LIONEL) E.M. Forster. A Study, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'Eric with Morgan's love July 1950', Hogarth, [1944]--ZARNECKI (GEORGE) Later English Romanesque Sculpture 1140-1210, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'Eric with Morgan's love, Callow Farm, August 1953', dust-jacket, Tiranti, 1953--MEE (ARTHUR) Yorkshire. West Riding, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'With love from Morgan Forster and with memories of his happy visit April 1951', an engraving depicting Loch Ard inscribed 'George and Grace Fletcher with Morgan's love for Christmas 1954 and New York 1955' loosely inserted, dust-jacket, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960, 8vo; and an 8 volume set of George Crabbe's Poetical Works (1834), inscribed by Forster ('E.M. Forster, from West Hackhurst') in volume one, with a note in his hand ('I wish Eric Fletcher to have this large edition of Crabbe after my death, E.M. Forster Aug. 28 [?1969]') loosely inserted; and 3 others (17)Footnotes:Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed to his friend Eric Fletcher.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
FORSTER (E.M.)SITWELL (OSBERT) A Place of One's Own, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For E.M. Forster with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Osbert Sitwell, 1941 December', Macmillan, 1941--MORRIS (JOHN) The Phoenix Cup, THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For Morgan - These notes which are dedicated to him in gratitude for his friendship & encouragement - with homage & affection from John, January 1948', Cresset, 1947--HAMPSON (JOHN) Care of the 'The Grand', THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Morgan with love from John July '39', Chapman and Hall, [1939]--KIRSTEIN (LINCOLN) Rhymes of a PFC, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Morgan from Lincoln August: 1964', New York, New Directions, [1964]--HARTLEY (L.P.) The Go-Between, second impression, some losses to dust-jacket, Hamish Hamilton, [1953]--KING (FRANCIS) The Man on the Rock, Longmans, 1957--ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER) The World in the Evening, Methuen, [1954]--KOESTLER (ARTHUR) Darkness at Noon, second printing, New York, Macmillan, 1941, the fourth to eighth mentioned, FIRST EDITIONS, OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF E.M. FORSTER, unless otherwise stated, publisher's cloth, all but the third and eighth mentioned in dust-jackets, 8vo; and 9 others, with E.M. Forster's ownership inscription, or note, including works by Arnold Bennett, Meridith, and Baring-Gould (17)Footnotes:A collection of volumes from the library of E.M. Forster, including the dedication copies inscribed to him by John Hampson and John Morris, and presentation copies inscribed to him by Osbert Sitwell and Lincoln Kirstein. They were later gifted by Forster to friend Eric Fletcher.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
FORSTER (E.M.)Two autograph letters signed ('Morgan') to Rupert Barkeley Smith, the first recommending he visit the valleys of the Lot and the Dordogne, thanking him for having him to stay and asking if Mr Hall still sells apples ('...I should love some russets, even more than Cox's...'), the second thanking him for the apples ('...The packing of the apples is both masterly and masterful...') and talking of France ('...Not far off is Souillac with some wonderful Romanesque sculpture including a dancing Isaiah. I wish he had given lessons to other prophets...'), 4 pages, some foxing and rust stains where previously clipped together, small hole to one page not affecting text, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), King's College, Cambridge, 19 November and 30 November 1953; Where Angels Fear to Tread, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'R.B.S. from E.M.F./ 4/10/05' on the half-title, with a pencil note 'There is a beautiful sentence on page 161 which makes me love you' in another hand on the title, William Blackwood, 1905; The Hill of Devi, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'This last Indian snippet: with affectionate remembrances to Honor and yourself from Morgan, October 1953' on the front free endpaper, photographic plates, Edward Arnold, 1953; Howards End, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription (Nov. 1910) on front free endpaper, Edward Arnold, 1910; Collected Short Stories, bookplate of R. Barkeley Smith, Sidgwick and Jackson, [1947], publisher's cloth, rubbed, some fading, 8vo (6)Footnotes:'THE LAST INDIAN SNIPPET WITH AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCES' - Correspondence and books inscribed to Rupert Barkeley Smith (1883-1970).E.M. Forster met Barkeley Smith, an Oxford undergraduate destined for the Indian Civil Service, whilst on an Aegean cruise at Easter 1903. Despite widely different approaches to life, they initially enjoyed a close relationship, Forster visiting Smith in Oxford and taking walking trips together, with Forster hoping for something more; in his journal for 22 December 1907 he writes '...I wish he cared for fooling... It is impossible to proceed further...' (Ed. P. Gardner, Journals & Diaries of E.M. Forster, 2011, vol. 1). By the time Smith returned on leave from India in 1912, however, Forster gives the impression that their friendship had cooled, writing in his journal '...He was trying, & no doubt tired. But he keeps the curious belief that we are in sympathy...' (10 May 1912).Despite this, whilst Assistant Magistrate in Allahabad, it was Smith who facilitated Forster's trip to India in 1913 organising accommodation, servants and hospitality and, on one memorable occasion, inviting him to an annual bathing fair. On the way they visited the Buddhist sites of Buddh Gaya and caves in the Barabar Hills, later to be used as the model for the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India. Smith's attitudes, however, did not leave Forster with a favourable impression of the British in India, something which would colour his characterisations in the novel and leaving him feeling rather depressed: '...Four years in India had left their mark on Smith. He was curt and insolent in Court, wouldn't speak a word to Forster's friend Ahmed Mirza when he came to lunch, and seemed, like his 'civilian' companions, to dislike every class of Indian except the peasant...' (P.N. Furbank, E M Forster: A Life, 1978, vol.1, p.249). When the book came out in 1924, Smith took offence at the portrayal not only as a slur on the Indian Civil Service as a whole, but as a personal affront since, he believed, the Turtons' house in the novel bore too close a resemblance to his own bungalow in Agra: '...different readers took every possible different view as to the fairness of his treatment of Indian problems. Some Tory-minded readers were incensed at the book... Rupert Smith wrote him a violent letter, more or less breaking off their friendship...' (Furbank, vol. 2, p.125). By the 1950's, RBS and Forster were reconciled sufficiently for Forster to send him the fondly inscribed copy of his Indian memoirs, The Hill of Devi, but the relationship never properly recovered, Forster admitting in 1963, '...I want to spend myself in writing to people who are on the margin of my heart. Letter to RBS has gone...' (Journal, 15 August 1963).These letters are not listed in Mary Lago's Calendar of the Letters of E.M. Forster, neither are they published in the Selected Letters. They have been retained by Rupert Barkeley Smith's descendants until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GERSHWIN (GEORGE)Autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed 'With Best wishes/ from your Composer/ George Gershwin', of two bars in E flat Major [the opening of 'Isn't it Wonderful', the chorus concluding the first act of his musical Primrose], on card, very light browning but overall in good and attractive condition, 60 x 92mm., [Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, Autumn 1924]; together with a newspaper clipping and two postcards (small collection)Footnotes:'BEST WISHES FROM YOUR COMPOSER' - the young George Gershwin doffs his cap to one of his leading ladies, quoting his song 'Isn't it Wonderful', dating from the same year as Rhapsody in Blue and Lady, Be Good.With this card is a newspaper cutting, datable to 1929, reporting the secret romance and wedding of 'West End leading lady' Margery Hicklin to Leon Heron, artist son of an Australian financier (two of whose postcards are also included). In 1924 Miss Hicklin had starred as Joan in Gershwin's musical Primrose, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, on 11 September 1924 and running for 255 performances. Our card must date before the end of the year, prior to Gershwin's return to America for the Broadway premier of Lady, Be Good on 1 December 1924. (Recordings of several numbers sung by Miss Hicklin as Joan are extant.)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREENE (GRAHAM)Travels With My Aunt, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'with thanks for everything from Graham Greene' on the title, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust-jacket, 8vo, The Bodley Head, [1969]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
HARDY (THOMAS)Jude the Obscure, FIRST EDITION, first state, half-title, etched frontispiece by by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map of Wessex, small loss at headband, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1896]; idem, another edition, identical to first edition except for substitution of 'Harpers' for 'Osgood...' at foot of spine, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 [but Harper, 1897?]; idem, first American edition, plates by Hatherall, Harper & Brothers, 1896 [1895], publisher's green cloth gilt [Purdy, pp.86-91]; A Defence of Jude the Obscure... In Three Letters to Sir Edmund Gosse, C.B., NUMBER 28 OF 30 COPIES SIGNED BY T.J. WISE, publisher's wrappers [Purdy, p.26], Edinburgh, for Private Circulation Only by the Dunedin Press, 1928, 8vo (4)Footnotes:First and early variant editions of Jude the Obscure, together with T.J. Wise's very rare limited edition pamphlet publishing Hardy's letters concerning the book.Provenance: First three, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., bookplate; Fourth, Carroll Atwood Wilson, bookplate; Sotheby's, 7 November 2001, The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy, lots 483 and 485.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
HOUSMAN (A.E.)A Shropshire Lad, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, publisher's parchment-backed boards (State 'A' with with the word 'Shropshire' on the paper spine label measuring 33mm. wide), spine label printed in red, soiled, spine rubbed with a few small losses, 8vo, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896Footnotes:'Though not an instant success, the little volume gradually won a large audience through the universality of its dominant themes (nature, love, war, and death) and the directness of its language and rhythms' (ODNB), and has been in print continuously since this first edition. Issued in an overall edition of 500 copies, the present copy is one of 250 in the first state binding.Provenance: W.R. Crow (1878-1951), early ownership inscription; by descent to the present owner.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
NAVAL LOG - H.M.S. KENT and NELSON'A Journal of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Kent Commencing the 1st May 1800 and Ending the 7th October 1803, Kept by John Jordan Arrow, Mid.n; under the command of W. Hope Esq. to the 18th June 1801, then Mr. Mansell Esq. to the 7th Sept. 1801, then Edw. O'Bryan Esq. to the 4th May 1803, & Jno. Stuart Esq. to the date hereof, J.J. A.', approximately 500 pages, brown ink on paper, ruled in pencil, 10 FULL-PAGE PEN AND WATERCOLOUR PLANS including soundings of Valletta (Malta), Quarantine Harbour (Malta), Bay of Marsa, and Sirocco (Malta), St. Pauls (Malta), Bay of Mamorice [Marmoris, Turkey], Harbour of Messina (Sicily), Haragatch Bay and part of Marmorice Bay (Turkey), Keith's Reef and Shoal... with the Esquerques (Tunis), Aboukir Bay (Coast of Egypt, including small vignette views of Rosseta, the Tower of Rosa, and the Castle of Aboukir), and Oristana Bay (Sardinia), of which 4 double-page, nineteenth century half calf, gilt lettered 'The Log of a Midshipman in Olden Times' on spine, upper joint split, folio (315 x 190mm.), [1800-1803]Footnotes:'JOIN'D LORD NELSON IN THE VICTORY' - a naval logbook rich in detail kept by a midshipman during a three year period of the Napoleonic Wars, including campaigns alongside Nelson at the blockade of Toulon, the Battles of Alexandria and Aboukir in Egypt, and service in the Mediterranean with a near five month stay in Malta.H.M.S. Kent was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 January 1798 at Blackwall Yard. This log commences on 1 May 1800 whilst the ship was stationed at Sheerness in Kent. In 1801, under the command of Admiral Lord Keith, she carried Sir Ralph Abercromby and his headquarters for the invasion of Egypt, a campaign which forced the surrender of the French occupying force. The log records landing the British army near Aboukir on 8 March 1801, hostile engagements with the Castle of Aboukir, and the Battle of Alexandria (21 March, 'At daylight saw the smoke from the masthead, supposed to be the the armies in action') where Abercromby died in action (news heard onboard on 31 March). From 19 March to 22 September 1802 the ship was moored at Valletta Harbour, Malta, a period which occupies 39 pages (in addition to the 4 pen and watercolour plans of Maltese harbours), supplying, as throughout the log, very extensive information on daily duties aboard ship, noting special events (celebration of the Queen's birthdays), punishments (lashings, mostly for fighting or desertion), comings and goings of other ships, victualling, etc. At 9.50 on 10 August 1803 H.M.S. Kent 'join'd Lord Nelson in the Victory in Comp. with H.M. Ships Donegal, Superb, Renown & Phoebe', to take part in the blockade of Toulon. The following 48 pages all record events 'In the company of the Ships Victory (Vice Admr. Lord Nelson)...', followed by a list of other ships. In addition to the usual updates on weather and wind conditions, ship repairs, rigging and other onboard activities, there is much information on the interaction of the different ships: 15 August, 'Discharged Mr. Chas. Royer Mids. into the Victory..., air'd bedding... exercised great guns & small arms. Pass'd by the Westd. a strange jettee'; 18 August, 'Admrl. Campbell (Blue) saluted Lord Nelson wth 15 guns which was returned wth. 13 from the Victory...'.John Jordan Arrow entered the Navy on 1 April 1800 as a First Class Volunteer, boarding H.M.S. Kent a month later. He was promoted to Midshipman in 1801. In later years he was made a Commander, prior to retiring on half-pay in 1814. He died in 1853.Provenance: John Gretton, Stapleford, 1st Baron Gretton (1867-1947), armorial 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
LAWRENCE (T.E.)Three autograph letters signed ('T E Lawrence') to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry McMahon, regarding the commission of a portrait for inclusion in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, comprising: (i) Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Lawrence'), mentioning he '...wrote a yarn of the Arabian effort – in no sense a history, but a personal narrative. You figured in it, just a little, at the opening...', and is '...collecting illustrations for its eventual publication (no present intention that way, though sometimes I'm tempted to publish part of it)...', asking McMahon if he would sit for a portrait and suggesting '...a powerful young artist called Roberts. He's very young, very callow: like a hollow oyster: but draws wonderfully. He was a Cubist...', and apologising for the odd request ('...It's rather like head-hunting, & a thousand times worse than autographing: but I've made the same request to several other of my victims, & have got callous over it...'), and for his handwriting ('...I'm in a boy's camp, writing on a crazy bed!...'), 2 pages, 8vo (174 x 113mm.), 14 Barton St., S.W.1, 25 August [19]22(ii)Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Lawrence'), writing after the sitting to ask McMahon's opinion of the picture ('...The first writing to one newly drawn is like going to congratulate an oriental, when you don't know if it was a boy or a girl... It's very severe & structured, wickedly like you, wickedly unlike: technically of course nearly a great piece of work. Lady McMahon, if she saw it, is no doubt furious: yourself I expect are mildly amused: & your critical self is probably pleased. He's a very uncommon youth, that little oyster-artist, & will make a name for himself...'), and comments on Roberts' portrait of Robin Buxton ('...An astonishing thing, more modelled than yours, but less individual...'), 1 page, 4to (220 x 177mm.), [no place], 17 October [19]22(iii)Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Lawrence'), arranging to meet, 1 page, on Colonial Office embossed headed paper, 8vo (188 x 115mm.), Colonial Office, 3 March [19]22Footnotes:'I WROTE A YARN OF THE ARABIAN EFFORT – IN NO SENSE A HISTORY, BUT A PERSONAL NARRATIVE': LAWRENCE COMMISSIONS THE PORTRAITS FOR SEVEN PILLARS.To illustrate his 'yarn of the Arabian effort', Lawrence commissioned the 'uncommon youth, that little oyster-artist' Slade-trained William Roberts, a self-described 'English Cubist' who had spent the war as firstly a gunner at the front and latterly as an official war artist. He was also to undertake an oil painting of Lawrence wearing his RAF uniform, the sittings taking place 'in a room I was using at Coleherne Terrace, Earl's Court' (Roberts' memoir Early Years).Roberts was a very suitable choice. The powerful personalities Lawrence depicts in his book demanded a powerful artistic style such as Roberts could offer, and Lawrence described McMahon's portrait as 'absolutely splendid: the strength of it, and the life: it feels as though at any moment there might be a crash in the paper and the thing start out' (21 October 1922) (quoted in www.englishcubist.co.uk/mcmahon). What McMahon thought of it is not known, neither seemingly is the current whereabouts of the original, but Lawrence notes with wry humour that McMahon's wife would be less than impressed with the depiction. The portrait was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1927 as item 1 in a selling exhibition of illustrations from the book. In the preface to the exhibition catalogue, Bernard Shaw explains how Lawrence '...made up his mind to lose money... He set able painters to work to make portraits... and imaginative draughtsmen... He had paper specially made, and directed the printing himself in the manner of Morris or Caxton...' and urges people to purchase the pictures for 'extravagant sums' to benefit a Trust set up to firstly cover the costs of publication and thereafter benefit 'a fund for the relief of the Belisariuses of the Air Force. Not one farthing of the price of Arabia's independence and her timely aid to England will ever go into the pockets of the Prince of Damascus...' (Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating Col. T.E. Lawrence's book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', The Leicester Galleries, 5 to 21 February 1927).Sir Henry McMahon, first high commissioner for Egypt, is perhaps best known for the McMahon-Hussein correspondence, a secret correspondence with the sharif of Mecca on behalf of the British government encouraging an Arab uprising against the sultan-caliph. He is described by Sir Ronald Storrs (his papers sold in these rooms 26 June 2019, lot 223) as ''slight, fair very young for 52, quiet, friendly, agreeable, considerate and cautious'' but quite out of his depth, lacking 'any knowledge of Arabic... forced to deal with a complex political situation... In return for an Arab rebellion McMahon loosely promised independence in certain areas of the Middle East, but he failed precisely to stipulate which parts... The extreme vagueness of the often confused and ambiguous correspondence between McMahon and Hussein... caused almost immediate controversy between the Arabs and the British empire over its differing interpretations, especially about whether it included Palestine...' (T.R. Moreman, ODNB), thus sowing the seeds of discord for years to come. In Seven Pillars, however, Lawrence praised McMahon's 'shrewd insight and tried, experienced mind' and his success in having 'achieved our foundation stone, the understanding with the Sherif of Mecca', writing that McMahon was kept in the dark about the British government's real intentions and was not to blame. Lawrence's guilt over his own part in what he saw as a British and French betrayal of the Arabs was to haunt him for the rest of his life. This correspondence is unpublished and has remained in the McMahon family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LAWRENCE (T.E.)Portrait by Eric Kennington, collotype reproduction, NUMBER 11 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the printed title label, mounted, framed and glazed, image 460 x 370mm., Oxford University Press, [1935]Footnotes:The striking 'Ghost portrait' of T.E. Lawrence by Kennington, illustrator and art editor of Seven Pillars, originally drawn in about 1920. Ronald Storrs described how he remembered that Kennington 'put the drawing-board on the floor, and two or three sheets of paper on the surface of the drawing and walked on it for a minute. This, he found, greatly improved it, and gave him two portraits, the second faint and in reverse. Number 2 was unexpected and revealed something not in the original. He put it away and forgot it for fourteen years... After Lawrence's death, Kennington was impressed both by its spiritual vitality and by the chance stigmata-like wounds on the forehead.'. The original now resides at All Souls College, Oxford.Provenance: Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), described by Lawrence in Seven Pillars as 'the first, and the great man among us', manuscript note in Storrs' hand 'Left to Lucy Morton R.S. 257152'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MILNE (A.A.)When We Were Very Young, fourth edition, advertisement to 'Fourteen Songs' loosely inserted, December 1924; Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., dust-jackets, 8vo, Methuen (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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), fading to spine, corner tips slightly turned, 2 small adhesion marks on upper cover, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback 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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, first section with slight browning and crinkling, faint yellow staining to one leaf (pp.83/84), publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), some creasing with slight chips and edge wear, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback 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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Jonathan with best wishes J.K. Rowling' on the front free endpaper, number sequence '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on imprint page, publisher's pictorial boards (slightly worn at extremities of spine and corners), dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:Provenance: Inscribed by the author for the vendor when he was a child. He recalls the circumstances:'It is a primary school teacher named Mrs Pope that is to be thanked for it coming into my possession. She had started reading JK Rowling's first book (Philosopher's Stone) to my class just before all the hype started. Before Chamber of Secrets was released JK Rowling held a competition where she had her fans write letters about how much they enjoyed the first book. Her favourite letters would be hand picked and be published in the 'Chamber of Secrets'. Everyone in my class entered the competition (along with thousands of other Children). I didn't win, but a girl in my class named Fiona Chadwick did. You can see her letter reproduced in the back of Chamber. As a result of our classmate winning, my entire class were invited to her book launch at Waterstones in Aberdeen. JK Rowling read us the first 2 chapters of the book. It was magical hearing her give life to her words. I particularly remember her impersonating Dobby. She signed each of my classmates books and left a personal message in the cover of each one. We were all delighted and star struck'.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
SPARE (AUSTIN)A Book of Satyrs, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, this copy out-of-series, 12 full-page illustrations, and ornaments by Spare, publisher's parchment-backed printed boards, folio (445 x 330mm), Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, 1907; Two original pencil 'automatic drawings' by Spare, one captioned 'Satyros', the other ?'Honosis' with note on verso 'First expurgation - then the pleroma by Mnemic causation', light spotting on the second, each approximately 255 x 190mm., [undated] (3)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
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
WORLD WAR I - BAGHDAD AND MESOPOTAMIAArchive relating to the British transport corps ('Remount Depot', and 'Mule Column') centred at Baghdad, comprising Lieutenant Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for 'No. 3 Mule Column' (1917-1920); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919-June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), c.1918-1919; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-1919), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May to 4 June 1919, the diary disbound, others original bindings, ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes, [c.1917-1922]Footnotes:'NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE PAIN & TERROR IN THAT POOR LITTLE THING'S FACE. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation... without food and medicine' (13 May, near Qara Tappah) - an evocative diary kept by Lieutenant Smith, capturing both the horror and beauty of his daily life. It was written whilst serving he with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. The diary includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting 'the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here...' and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, 'I killed 1000 flies in my tent...'; April 5, 'Changed into my light underwear...'; April 17, '...Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road... on the trek with camels'; April 23, '... held a court martial... of Hazzat Shah... for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes...'), Table mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, 'Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners'; 2 May, 'Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners... one prisoner of the first lot died on the way... they are evidently hungry and tired...'). The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, 'For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar...'). Smith's record of the No.3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ('Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column', 'Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts...') and Expenditure ('Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement', 'Sweets for the the Peace celebrations'). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ('Red Riding Hood', 'A Gipsy Romance' by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WYNDHAM (JOHN)The Midwich Cuckoos, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Lawrence Bachmann/the full epic of that charmed village/gratefully from John Wyndham July 1960' on the title-page, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, spine light fading with short tear at foot, upper cover upper margin with 2 short tears, one resulting in small loss to 'M' of author's name), 8vo, New York, Ballantine Books, [1957]; sold with an autograph letter signed by Wyndham ('John Benyon Harris') to Lawrence Bachmann, thanking him for 'a thoroughly enjoyable party', praising the film adaption of the book, and enclosing this copy of the book, one page, headed paper, 16 July 1960 (2)Footnotes:Rare presentation copy, with accompanying letter, inscribed to the American film producer Lawrence Bachmann, who was British head of MGM when the studio made the classic film version, titled Village of the Damned, in 1960. In the letter Wyndham gives his 'thanks for the film itself - as I think I told you, I frankly did not think it could be done', and enclosing a copy of the book 'with some diffidence, feeling that you are probably sick of the sight of it by now...'. A remake, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1995.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
SCOTLAND - MURRAY FAMILY OF OCHTERTYREPapers and correspondence relating to the Murray family of Ochtertyre, including: ten letters from Wellington's quarter-master general Sir George Murray regarding his appointment as lieutenant-general and civil administrator of Upper Canada in 1814 ('Nothing further to do now in England but to wait for a wind...'), his first speech in the House of Commons in 1825 ('Canning turned round and reached across an intermediate bench to shake hands with me and said that nothing could be better...'), political and family matters (writing confidentially that he is to succeed Mr Huskisson as Secretary of State for the Colonies), etc., 1814-1828; Anthony Murray (Sir George Murray's nephew) to Major Armstrong (three, regarding family history, 1882); Rudyard Kipling (one-page autograph letter to Lady Campbell: 'I'm a parent myself and so far from prescribing to lecture parents on their duties towards their kids...', November 1907); and other family letters and papers including the valuation of Drunlandrick, 1839 and family tree, c.100 pages, 4to and 8vo, 1825 to 1907Footnotes:The lot also includes a four-page contemporary copy of Amelia Fancourt's moment-by-moment account of the Mutiny at Vellore of 1806, in which her husband Colonel St. John Fancourt of the 34th Foot was killed. In it she describes how she hid with her children in the house with their ayah ('...she took the children under my bed...and was no sooner there than several shots were fired into the room... the children were screaming with terror at the fire & I expected our last hour had come...'), their escape and rescue. The original of this account is held in the Warren Hastings papers at the British Library (see Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the Rajas; Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India, 1805-1905, 2015). It was also published, with slight differences, in The Sydney Gazette, June 14 1842. With it, in the same hand, is a copy of a report from a soldier of the rescue party.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WINCHESTER COLLEGE - MANUSCRIPT 'NOTIONS BOOK''Compendium quorundam verborum quae in his et priscis temporibus Collegii Wykhamici commensalibus precipue usitata sint. MDCCCXLIV', MANUSCRIPT, ink on paper, 232 pages (approximately 90 blank), titles, part-titles and caption alphabet letters in red ink, remainder in black ink, approximately 96 small ink illustrations, 2 full-page ink elevations of the school ('Winchester College, from Blackridge'; 'Commoners. Winton'), 2 full-page maps hand-coloured in red, green and blue, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, 8vo, [1844]Footnotes:FINELY ILLUSTRATED NOTIONS BOOK, COMPILED BY A WINCHESTER COLLEGE PUPIL. 'Over the years, particular words and phrases have developed at Winchester. These are known as Notions. Some are very old in origin (from Latin, Middle English or Anglo-Saxon) and some have been absorbed from schoolboy slang' (Winchester College, website). Although some of the vocabulary was shared with other colleges, such as Eton and Charterhouse, the term 'notions' is used only by Wykehamists. Organised alphabetically, each word in the volume is given alongside a short definition, and in approximately 80 cases, a charming ink illustration. Words and images relate to sporting activities (mostly football), teachers and learning ('books up to...', 'Trencher caps'), punishments (such as 'funding... a licking on the back with a ground ash', and 'scrubbing... a corporal punishment of 4 cuts'), fagging ('Bread picker', 'Butter washing', 'Turf keeper', 'Tege... any one to whom kindness has been shown... generally a younger boy, when he first becomes befriended by an older'), local place names, and localised slang ('Jubilee...a period when there is nothing to do', 'Joel. The nickname of the under porter of the college...', 'Cargo... a basket of eatables sent from home', 'Bees-waxers, thick soled half boots worn at football', 'Rabbited, a blow on the back of the head...'). Provenance: George Parker Heathcote (1828-1871), bookplate. Parker attended Winchester College from 1842, later attaining the rank of Captain in the 52nd Light Infantry; Gilbert V. Heathcote, inscribed 'Feb 20 1871. In memoriam G.P.H.[eathcote]' on the front free endpaper, and 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
AESOPFables with His Life: in English, French and Latin... by Francis Barlow, additional engraved title, full-page engraved arms of the Earl of Devonshire, 31 engraved plates by Thomas Dudley after Francis Barlow, one full-page etched illustration of Aesop surrounded by animals and birds ('See here how natures books...'), and 110 half-page engraved illustrations, a few plates slightly browned, some tears mostly in lower or upper margins (text on 4 leaves and 1 engraving affected, but all without loss), CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO BY BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER, elaborately tooled in gilt, the sides decorated with leafy tendrils and various floral tools, emanating from a small Greek urn, with borders of drawer-handle tools forming connecting geometric pattern, spine in 8 compartments with raised bands and 3 flower tool designs, some small patches worn, spine slightly faded and joints rubbed in places, some paper repairs to marbled endpapers [ESTC R22991], folio (363 x 235mm.), H. Hills Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson [et al], 1687Footnotes:FINELY BOUND BY 'BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER' FOR PRESENTATION: A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED LARGE PAPER COPY. 'From this bindery, active in the 1680s and 1690s, come three handsome presentation copies of Barlow's Aesop, two of them now in the British Library... [and] Pepys's copy at Magdalene College' (Howard M. Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1972, p.40). This fourth example can be attributed to the shop through comparison with the dedication copy to the Earl of Devonshire at Chatsworth, now in the British Library (Nixon, op. cit. no. 99 and plate 99). The combination of a floral and geometrical pattern is common to both bindings, and many of the same tools are used. The sides feature the same leafy tendrils and smaller ornamental and flower head tools, whilst the spines share two floral compartmental designs along with the superscript letter 's' in 'Barlow's'. The Cracherode copy in the British Library also features some of the same tools.Barlow's edition of Aesop, self-financed and illustrated, was first published in 1666, but most copies were destroyed when his shop, the Golden Eagle, was burned down in the Great Fire that year. The present second edition, considered the culmination of Barlow's work in book illustration, was the first to contain the 31 fine plates illustrating Aesop's life, and the quatrains by Aphra Behn which were engraved in place of Thomas Philpott's captions within the 110 illustrations. The present copy includes the so-called 'indecent' plate 17 which is often missing.Provenance: UK private collection.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
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, RHEIMSThe New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English... Annotations, and Other Helps, for the Better Understanding of the Text... By the English Colledge then Resident in Rhemes, 'fourth edition, enriched with pictures', additional engraved title-page, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (Evangelists, St. Paul, St. John and Pentecost) by Picquet and Michel van Lochom, additional title cut to size and laid down, headlines to approximately 20 pages shaved along with a couple of catchwords, dampstain to 2 leaves, upper cover and spine detached [ESTC S102550; Herbert 479], 1633; The Holy Bible... with Arguments of the Bookes and Chapters,... By the English Colledge of Dovvay, 2 vol., second edition of the Roman Catholic version, each with separate letterpress title, printer's licence leaf at end of second volume, without the additional engraved titles, first volume without final blank, title with repair resulting in some loss to one letter, small repairs to final 4 leaves, extreme corner tip of 4 leaves repaired, second volume title with one corner torn away, and some abrasion resulting in loss of a few words, upper joint of volume one cracked, lower part of spine of volume 2 detached [ESTC S1501; Herbert 499], 1635, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, red edges, uniform nineteenth century blindstamped calf, worn, 4to, [Rouen], John Cousturier (3)Footnotes:The second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament, which had first been published in Douai in 1609, and the fourth edition of the New Testament.Provenance: New Testament, James Atkinson (1759-1839, Surgeon, of York), inscription on aii (Preface to Reader), 'Atkinson' bookplate; Old Testament, 'Will Johnston bought this book 1712', inscription on final leaf of first volume; John Macfarlane, Writer to the Signet, bookplate in both New Testament volumes; James Dix, of Bristol, 'Biblical Collection', bookplate dated 1850 in each volume.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
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Fine autograph letter signed ('EB Barrett'), the second and concluding bifolium, to John Kenyon, her intimate friend and cousin and dedicatee of Aurora Leigh, describing her illness ('...with a full knowledge of the peculiar uncertainties of my complaint, I do consider myself, & am convinced by the physician who attends me, hopefully better...'), life in Torquay including receiving a visitor ('...It has been a thing forbidden, & indeed for many weeks & months together... I did not leave my bedroom...'), discussing the fortunes of Mary Russell Mitford and confessing that she pines for her father and Wimpole Street ('...the longing for home will be helped away by nothing I am sure until I can get back again to Wimpole Street... I believe I never loved my dearest Papa & all of them, until I left them...'), 3 pages, professional repairs to margin, guard, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), Torquay, 10 June 1839Footnotes:'I DO CONSIDER MYSELF, & AM CONVINCED BY THE PHYSICIAN WHO ATTENDS ME, HOPEFULLY BETTER': Elizabeth Barrett writes from her convalescence in Torquay to her cousin and 'Guardian Angel', John Kenyon. 'In 1837–8 she was stricken with a second prolonged illness which continued over four years, in which she suffered from 'blood spitting, irregular heart action, loss of voice', elevated body temperature, fainting, and insomnia, symptoms associated today with either bronchiectasis or 'tuberculous ulceration of the lungs... On 25 August 1838 she left the polluted air of mid-Victorian London for Torquay, and despite the hopes expressed in this letter, she was not to return to Wimpole Street until 11 September 1841' (Marjorie Stone, ODNB). Only months after writing this letter she suffered two tragedies, in February the death of her brother Samuel in Jamaica and the following July that of her beloved brother Bro in a sailing accident, events which would inspire her poems De Profundis and Grief. John Kenyon was also a friend of Robert Browning's father and it was he who encouraged Robert to write to Elizabeth, as well as, with some persistence on his part, arranging their first meeting.A short extract of the letter published in a Sotheby's catalogue of 5 July 1900, lot 131, describes the letter as already incomplete (see Kelley and Hudson, The Brownings' Correspondence: A Checklist, 1978, p.19). See also Phillips sale, 15 November 1990, lot 67.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARLES I AND II - STONEYWOOD BIBLEThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, OT and NT titles within typographical border, lacks additional engraved title [ESTC S122140; Herbert 513], Cambridge, Thomas Buck and Roger Daniels, Printers to the Universitie, 1637; The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, title within typographical border with decorative ornament, double-page map of Canaan, 2 leaves frayed at fore-margin [ESTC S124878], [Printed by Felix Kingston, 1632-1635?]; The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Metre, title within typographical border, lacks final leaf [ESTC S122393], Cambridge, Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1637, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer, together 4 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary embroidered binding with stumpwork design in silver thread on blue velvet, central panel with the Prince of Wales' feathers and crown within Garter badge, incorporating a banner with the motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' surmounted by a large crown flanked by the initials 'C.P.' (altered to 'C.R.'), and with rose and thistle at lower inner corners, embroidered palmette design outer order, spine comprising six compartments with floral embroidery in each, rebacked retaining original spine, some wear (mostly to central banner with loss of some of the lettering to the motto), rear pastedown with remnants of eighteenth century notes (including unclear mention of names Jean Erskine and 'Moire'), loosely inserted a blue silk bookmark with a design in silver and gold thread (split at centre with some loss); housed in a nineteenth century velvet-lined morocco case, covers with 3-line fillet border, gilt roll tool inner border and thistle cornerpieces, simple lozenge centre panel with circular decorative border enclosing a large device of an upturned crown, broken sceptre and axe above a banner proclaiming 'Remember', the decorative gilt spine lettered 'Holy Bible 1637. Charles Rex. Beheaded 30th Jany. 1647', with Scottish thistle and English rose devices, and the crown and axe emblem (as on cover), edges fully gilt, rubbed, small losses to leather on spine, without key and lock-catch, the whole preserved in a nineteenth century glass-panelled display case by Drew & Cadman, Holborn (signed on handle), 4to (the Bible 220 x 155mm.), sold as an association itemFootnotes:'THE BIBLE OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST USED BY HIM ON THE SCAFFOLD DURING HIS LAST MOMENTS...' - THE STONEYWOOD BIBLE, BOUND FOR KING CHARLES II, but long reputed to have belonged to Charles I, and to have been presented by him 'upon that awful occasion to Juxon, Bishop of London who assisted the devotions of his unfortunate Monarch' (manuscript note on box). The Royal Collection holds a 1638 Book of Common Prayer with an almost identical binding, described as 'bound for King Charles II when he was Prince of Wales...' (RCIN 1047677, see Royal Collection Trust website for image, noting that Queen Victoria loaned the volume to the Burlington Fine Art Club Exhibition of Fine Binding, 1891).The Bible is in an exceptionally fine embroidered binding, decorated with the emblem of the Prince of Wales and the initials 'C.P.' (altered to 'C.R.', for Carolus Rex'), and passed through generations of the Moir and Skene families (see below), during which time several narratives, recorded in The Story of the Stoneywood Bible (1949), were attached to it: 'The Bible was kept in the chest of Stoneywood [near Aberdeen]. One day it disappeared. With it went the 'luck' of the Moirs... One of the family's maid-servants was the thief... but [whilst other valuables were lost]... the Bible was secretly returned... One morning it was found under a chestnut tree near the entrance to the Moir mansion'. A further adventure is recorded in a note, probably by its nineteenth century owner James Skene, a close friend of Sir Walter Scott, pasted to the box in which the Bible is housed: '...The Bible remained in perfect preservation untill [sic] the Rebellion [of] 1745 when it was stolen, and afterwards found in the its present dilapidated state concealed in a hole underground'.In his Horae subsecivae (1858) the celebrated Scottish essayist John Burns noted 'The family of Stoneywood seem from the earliest record down to their close, to have been devotedly attached to the house of Stuart. In the old house there long hung a portrait of Bishop Juxon, who attended Charles 1. on the scaffold, and through this prelate must have come a still more precious relic, long preserved in the family, and which is now before us, the Bible which the doomed King put into the hands of the Bishop on the scaffold, with the word 'Remember,' having beforehand taken off his cloak and presented it and the insignia of the Garter to the same faithful minister and friend... We have the sacred and royal book before us now,—a quarto, printed in 1637, bound in blue velvet, and richly embroidered and embossed with gold and silver lace. There is the crown and the Prince of Wales' feathers, showing it had belonged to Charles II when prince. He must have given it to his hapless father, as the C.P. is changed into C.R.'.Further literature: Charles Roach Smith reproduced an image of the Bible in his Collectanea Antiqua (1848-1880), stating 'There is so much external evidence of the genuineness of this very beautiful and interesting relique, that no doubt that no doubt can exist to its perfect authenticity'. This image, and a version of the story, also appeared in The Illustrated London News, 26 January 1850, at which time the Bible was in the possession of Robert Skene, of Rubislaw; Illustrated (captioned 'Prayerbook of Charles I') in Felicia Skewes of Oxford. A Memoir by E.C. Rickards, 1902; A manuscript (MS. 20478), titled 'Reminiscences and notes concerning the Moir family Bible which had belonged to Charles I' by James Skene is held by the National Library of Scotland.Provenance: Bound for Charles II, when Prince of Wales; reputedly given by Charles I to William Juxon (1582-1663), Bishop of London; bequeathed by him to Patrick Scougall [or 'Scorgie'] (1607-1682), Bishop of Aberdeen, as told in The Story of The Stoneywood Bible, reprinted from The Aberdeen Press and Journal, 26 January 1949 (a copy of which is included with the lot); William Scroogie, Bishop of Argyle, whose daughter Mary married James Moir II, of Stoneywood (1659-1739) in 1683; Moir family, subsequently through the marriage of Jean Moir to George Skene (1736-1776) of Rubislaw, Aberdeen; James Skene (1775-1864); by descent to the present owners.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
COLLINS (WILKIE)Autograph letter signed ('Wilkie Collins') to Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, marked 'Private', recommending he consider the work of Maurice Drummond, '...who is anxious to try his hand as an occasional contributor... five minutes will tell you, whether he possesses the special capacities required for your work – and two minutes at your desk will tell me whether this answer is yes or no...' 4 pages, some creasing and light dust-staining, 8vo (207 x 132mm.), 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 1 April 1870; with another letter to Sir Henry Thompson, dated 23 March 1880 accepting an invitation (2)Footnotes:'FIVE MINUTES WILL TELL YOU, WHETHER HE POSSESSES THE SPECIAL CAPACITIES REQUIRED FOR YOUR WORK'Maurice Drummond held the post of Receiver of the Police from 1860 to 1883, a part-time position which left him with plenty of leisure time for other pursuits such as journalism. With his wife, the daughter of Lord Ribblesdale, he moved in Hampstead literary circles where, according to Lady St. Helier's memoirs, he was great friends with Frederick Greenwood, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Du Mauriers: 'Their dinners were always small only six to eight people but they lasted well on into the night... Maurice Drummond was a curious, interesting wild looking person, very able and original...' (Memories of Fifty Years, 1909, p.160). Drummond wrote extensively for the Pall Mall Gazette but it is not known if Wilkie Collins' recommendation was taken up by Mark Lemon, who died a few weeks after this letter was written. Both letters come from the collection of George Buckston Browne, assistant to the physician Sir Henry Thompson. A transcript of the first, possibly in the hand of Buckston Browne, is held in the University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library (MS P557:A8). It is numbered [0963] in the Collected Letters, where a footnote adds that Browne was a near neighbour of Wilkie Collins for just over a year before his death and that a letter from Browne to Clyde K. Hyder at Kansas, dated 17 October 1935, states that he borrowed Wilkie Collins's letter to Lemon from an unidentified friend (which could be Sir Henry Thompson) in order to copy it for Hyder (see Baker, W., Gasson, A., Law, G., Lewis, P., The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins, 2018).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CATHERINE)MAYALL (JOHN JABEZ EDWIN) Profile portrait of Catherine Dickens, quarter-plate daguerreotype, hint of pink colouring to face, mounted as oval within gilt mount, photographer's studio credit stamp '224 Regent St/(Argyll Place)/Mayall/&/433 West Strand' in gilt on the reverse of the morocco case, image 93 x 70mm., July 1852-June 1855Footnotes:THE ONLY KNOWN DAGUERREOTYPE OF CATHERINE DICKENS.The portrait can be dated between 1852 and 1855: a patent date 'Reg. July 20 1852' is visible on the catch of the case - the same year that Mayall opened his 224 Regent Street premises. At the latest, the sitting could have taken place in the first half of 1855, as in June of that year Mayall sold his 433 West Strand studio to his assistant Jabez Hughes. Charles Dickens first sat for the photographer in 1852, but seems to have made several subsequent sittings until 1856 (see previous lot). With similar mountings and styles, and with their faces shown in opposing profiles, it is conceivable that this and the previous lot were intended as a pair and that the couple visited Mayall's studio together during this period.Catherine is shown approaching her fortieth year and at a time when her life with Charles Dickens was unravelling. Exhausted by many years of childbearing, by the death of her 8-month-old daughter Dora in 1851, and by marriage to an increasingly restless husband who had begun to look elsewhere for female company, she appears a sadder figure than the images we have of her earlier in life. She nonetheless retains a token of her youth in the ringletted hair just visible beneath her bonnet.When this daguerreotype came to light in 1996, the case held two ivory passes for the 1870 Italian Opera. One was inscribed 'Miss Dickens', suggesting that the daguerreotype might once have belonged to the couple's eldest daughter Mary, known as Mamie.Literature:Axon, C., 'The Daguerreotype of Catherine Dickens', in The Dickensian, Summer 1997, no. 442, vol. 93, part 2, pp.89-93.Slater, M., 'Catherine Dickens in the Early 1850s: A Newly-discovered image', ibid., pp.85-88.Provenance: Possibly owned by Mary 'Mamie' Dickens (1838-1896); Stuart Heggie Vintage Cameras, Canterbury, purchased from a customer in 1996; Colin Axon, purchased from the former; Bonhams, 17 May 2012, lot 1, consigned by the former; UK private collector, purchased at the sale; bequeathed to present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Two conjoint indentures, both signed ('Charles Dickens'), regarding no. 30 Grove Road, Wanstead ('...being on the south side of a certain new road called Grove Road...'), the first being a 'Lease of one semi-detached villa residence', the lease from 'Charles Dickens of Gadshill Place by Rochester in the County of Kent Esquire', Malcolm Douglas Crosbie and George Frederick Hudson 'mortgagees of the premises', on the one part, George Horatio Wilkinson of Wanstead, 'mortgager and owner in fee of the same premises', of the second part, to Edward James Willmott of West Street Triangle, Hackney, builder and lessee, to run for 94 years assigning a 'yearly rent of two pounds ten shillings by equal half yearly payments', requiring him to 'paint or cause to be painted twice over with good oil color & in a workmanlike manner once in every four years', and including a ground plan of the site; the second a 'Conveyance of land and premises' transferring from Dickens, Crosbie and Hudson, on payment to Willmott of £60, the property 'known as no. 30 Grove Road Wanstead' provided he maintain it as a private residence and not offer 'annoyance nuisance or damage of the said Charles Dickens...or tenants of their or any of their adjoining properties', on three sides of two skins of vellum, with dockets and titles on the fourth, two sets of duty-stamps and red wax seals, usual minor dust-staining and creasing, especially where folded and filed, each c.550 x 665mm., G.F. Hudson, Matthews & Co., Solicitors, 23 Bucklersbury, London, 30 October 1868 and 12 April 1869Footnotes:DICKENS INVESTS IN PROPERTY IN WANSTEAD. Dicken's signatures stand at the head of both these documents concerning the sale of the 'semi-detached villa residence' at no. 30 Grove Road, Wanstead. The first is signed in characteristic turquoise ink, without flourishes, the second in brown ink with the usual flourished underlining.From the 'Ennumeration of Deeds referred to' in the second document, it is clear that Dickens first acquired an interest in this property in 1860 and, from the terms of the lease, that he owned further land in the area. This is borne out by a similar indenture sold in these rooms, 24 March 2009, lot 133, also dated 1868/9 regarding property at no. 16 Grove Road. The other parties to this transaction were either builders or speculative developers: Wilmott had just finished a development of four houses in Westward Ho! the previous summer (see the town's History Group website); while Wilkinson is recorded as a timber merchant residing in Shoreditch near Wanstead, and was busy in the 1860's developing property in Hackney in partnership with Marmaduke Matthews, an auctioneer, who is also named in our deed (see Victoria County History Middlesex, Vol.10, 'Hackney: Homerton and Hackney Wick', edited by T.F.T. Barker, 1995, pp.51-50). Crosbie, Dickens's fellow mortgagee, is recorded as inheriting and selling property in Grove Street, Hackney, in 1840 (Access to Archives, Hackney Archives Department, small collections, M220 and 221).None of these characters feature in the records of Dickens's life, neither is it his usual solicitor who drew up these deeds. The question arises as to why Dickens should have employed Hudson & Co., rather than his friend and usual solicitor Frederic Ouvry, of Farrer Ouvry & Farrer, who not only handled Dickens's separation from his wife, but also his publishing contracts and property affairs (see the Sotheby's catalogue of Dickens's business papers, London, 15 July 1999, lots 160-187). Having purchased Gad's Hill Place in 1856, Dickens sold Tavistock House in September 1860, for 2000 guineas. Three months after this, on 12 November, we find him giving Wilkinson a mortgage for the speculative development in Wanstead. It has been suggested that the property in Grove Road may have been purchased with a view to giving a home to his mistress Ellen (Nelly) Ternan but the ownership of another property in the same road would imply that Dickens was investing in these speculative properties with a more business-led motive in mind. It is thought that Dickens gave readings at the Becontree Archery Assembly Rooms, now the Wanstead Quaker Burial Ground.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MARCELLINUS (AMMIANUS)The Roman Historie... Translated Newly into English... by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, 2F2-3 probably from another copy, final few leaves ('Acts') shaved at fore-edge, loss to upper fore-corner of final leaf affecting a few letters, title lightly soiled, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S114268], folio (267 x 170mm.), Adam Islip, 1609This 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
MEXIA (PEDRO)The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, Beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and Successively Ending with Rodulph the Second Now Raigning, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, numerous woodcut illustrations, corner of title repaired with loss to border, lacking first and final blanks, wormtrail in lower gutter of a few gatherings, contemporary calf, upper covers with central gilt motif of rose within branches and surmounted with crown, rebacked [ESTC S114704], folio (285 x 180mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1604Footnotes:Provenance: Armorial gilt stamp on covers, composed of several tools similar to some of those used by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612). According to Mirjam Foot, 'the fact that there were three different arms blocks and six different corner blocks, all found in various combinations, suggests that the books were farmed out in batches to different binders who were at the same time lent blocks'; Mary Cameron, ownership inscription on title dated 1833.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
MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, second edition in English, undetermined state, black letter, ornamental initials, occasional light soiling and light dampstaining but mostly clean and fresh, lacks the final 5 unnumbered leaves with colophon, contemporary blind-panelled calf, restored with some cracks, wear to lower cover and loss to spine [ESTC S112887 or S103392; Pforzheimer 740], small 8vo (140 x 95mm.), [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churchyarde, at the signe of the Lambe, [1556]Footnotes:THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF MORE'S VISIONARY MASTERPIECE, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Utopia, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as a 'tract for the times', was written in Latin for the benefit of the literati and first published in Louvain in 1516. However, it wasn't until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Vele, in a translation by Ralph Robinson. This second edition followed five years later, in the year of Cranmer's execution, and was the one William Morris used for the Kelmscott Press printing. Although the present copy lacks the last five unnumbered leaves (containing dedications and a supplementary verse), it is extremely rare in a contemporary binding, the only other example listed in auction records being a copy bound in vellum which was sold at Bonhams New York on 22 September 2015 ($38,000).The contemporary binder's waste used in this copy provide a tantalising glimpse into the world of the London printing and binding trade. They comprise fragments of an early manuscript on vellum, along with two printed pages (used as front flyleaves and rear pastedown) which appear to be trial or rejected sheets from Girolamo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng Excellent Remedies against Divers Diseases, Woundes, and other Accidents (specifically leaves B3 & 4 in the 'First booke of Secretes'), printed 'by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, 1558'. One can only speculate how the sheets may have found their way from one St Paul's printer to the other's shop, or to the binder.Provenance: Private collection, UK.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
![[NERI (MARY ANNE)]The Eve of San-Pietro. A Tale, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement at end of volume 3, no half-ti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/f8aaf388-36d8-489a-b160-ac8d00ce21df/468x382.jpg)
[NERI (MARY ANNE)]The Eve of San-Pietro. A Tale, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement at end of volume 3, no half-titles, light spotting, blank endpapers loose in volume 1, and one endpaper loose in volume 2, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, rubbed, loss to one headband, 8vo, T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1804Footnotes:First edition of a scarce Gothic novel, the author's 'first production. Unsanctioned in a Name, unsupported by a Dedication, she 'lets it down the Wind, to prey at Fortune'' (Advertisement to the Reader). Provenance: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818), ownership inscription ('Eliz. Melbourne') on each title-page. Elizabeth was mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister on two occasions; Brocket Hall Library bookplate, country seat of the Melbourne family; Lord W. Kerr, bookplate. Kerr inherited Brocket Hall in 1906, selling the estate in 1923; Paul Harris, blindstamp on front free endpapers in each volume, bookplate and inscription on fly-leaf in volume one.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
![CRAWHALL (JOSEPH)Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty, [ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES], AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Mrs. Geo. Ar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/6833be78-c0c7-4992-9ad6-ac8d00cef599/468x382.jpg)
CRAWHALL (JOSEPH)Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty, [ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES], AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Mrs. Geo. Armstrong with the author's kind regards' on the dedication leaf, 5 hand-coloured plates, other full-page plates and illustrations, publisher's half morocco over peacock-patterned cloth, g.e. [Westwood & Satchell p.70], small 4to, [Newcastle, Imprinted by Andrew Reid, for the Author], 1880Footnotes:FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF A SCARCE TITLE. Border Notes 'is an 'ollpodrida' of angling verse and miscellaneous drollery, illustrated with masterly pen and ink sketches... coloured plates, head-and-tail pieces etc. Of Mr. Crawhall it may be said that he has created crown-jewels for the angling-libraries of the future. There can be no doubt that his books will give rise to eager competition in the auction-rooms of half a century hence' (Westwood & Satchell). Some of the illustrations were contributed by Joseph Crawhall Junior, the first time his work appeared in print, and the printer, Andrew Reid, stated that he destroyed the blocks after the printing.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
PLINIUS SECUNDUS (GAIUS)The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie, 2 vol. in one, second edition, without final blank, a few paper flaws with one or two losses to margins, a handful of wormtrails generally confined to very edges (7 leaves neatly repaired) but touching a few letters in gatherings 3D-3F, first and leaf few leaves slightly frayed and repaired but with only a few letters affected, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC S121936 ], folio (335 x 210mm.), Adam Islip, 1634Footnotes:Provenance: Ambrose Rocke, ownership inscription on title; Reginald Shutte (presumably the Anglican clergyman biographer, 1829-1892), ownership inscription on front free endpaper.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
PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large folding hand-coloured engraved map (detached and framed), list of subscribers, light arc of dampstaining to several plates and some text towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R21986], folio (355 x 230mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1686 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Bruce, third Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate on verso of title.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
RUSKIN (JOHN)Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life [-Dilecta_ Correspondence, Diary Notes, and Extracts from Books, illustrating Praeterita], 31 original parts in 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, EXTENSIVELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED WITH THE INSERTION OF 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY RUSKIN, 23 autograph letters and notes by contemporaries (including Turner), numerous sketches, photographs, cut signatures, annotated proof sheets, and upwards of 280 additional engravings and plates (some coloured), the collection comprising: i) Group of 25 autograph letters signed ('J. Ruskin', 'John Ruskin', 'J.R.') to various correspondents, including:'Darling Reille', an unknown child ('...although May is irresistible, And Alice is so bewitching – yet you were my first Love... ps Don't frizz the hair quite so high this time...'); Miss Rudkin, organising a spring dress for Arthur Severn's daughter whom he finds '...already tall enough – to become – a pretty costume, and refresh and refine my savage mind...'; an unknown recipient recalling an encounter with Charles Darwin ('...A couple of years ago, a man, Darwin was walking with me on my garden terrace and stopped to look at a strange form of (I forget what) flower. – 'Now – why is that shaped so' – he said. Why should you want to know? I answered – Oh – he said, laughing – but with the perfectly frank expression of a man partly ashamed of a weakness – 'I always want to know' – 'And I never do.' – ended this 'discussion' in that direction – and we went into lunch...'); Charles Newton on his engagement to Effie Gray ('...I believe indeed that it is every way better for me that I should marry... Miss Gray is a good girl... will be a very noble creature – and far above my deservings...'); another to Newton (speaking of his recent trip to Europe ('...that vast blunder St Peters...'), the effect of political feeling on architecture, hoping to 'get out of Jephson's clutches' soon to show him some architectural drawings completed in Italy); the Revd A. Tighe Gregory (mentioning his nervous condition '...the most trivial matter will sometime sicken and sting me...', his debt to Turner for art and Carlyle for literature and marvelling how they, like him 'should be irreligious' but that he is open to 'all influences'); Lady Naesmyth (sending copies of verses by Rose La Touche, despairing she has gone to Ireland and may not love him when she returns); four to his friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, including a highly personal undated letter regarding '...that wretched child...' [Rose La Touche], complaining of her evangelism and his frustration ('...a husband can always say a little word for himself – whereas a poor, servile – wretch of an old lover... she I verily believe is like to be in mortal illness as not – and vowing I shan't come near her unless I swear first that I don't care to! – and only love God. And of course I can't & won't do anything of the sort – I don't love anything but her in the whole universe – and she leads me the life to Tantalus & Prometheus Vinctus in one...'); another illustrated with a sprig of blossom written three days after her death ('...I've just heard that my poor little Rose is gone when the hawthorn blossoms go... just left the second number of Proserpine to be printed – there are many little things going to be said in it, which nobody but she would have understood... I have been long prepared so you need not be anxious about me...'); and another including a delicate drawing of moss ('...all in stars as close as that – it takes such a dreadful time to paint...'); and Thomas Carlyle discussing the use of colour in Greek sculpture ('...if colour will make Greek endurable – it will make Gothic glorious...'); others include a note to Dante Gabriel Rossetti arranging a meeting, another refusing an invitation to dine at Mr D'Israeli's, to his physician Henry Jephson, to Hale White regarding his paper on Byron and to Henry Jowett regarding the publication of Praeterita, c.52pp in all, 8vo, Denmark Hill, Brantwood, Leamington Spa, Perth etc., c.1841-1889 where dated. ii) Illustrations, including a copy of John Ruskin's self portrait of c.1861, head and shoulders, wearing a black neckerchief, pencil and watercolour, in an unknown hand, image 155 x 125mm.; a sketch map of Oxford depicting the town and colleges, in ink, with monogram ('JR') on reverse of a printed prospectus for Robert Taylor Pritchett's Brush-Notes in Holland, 183 x 240mm.; two fine pen and ink vignettes of hawthorn blossom and moss; and sketch of a dog by John Brown entitled 'orat plorat et adorat', 85 x 65mm.; together with numerous printed plates and engravings including landscapes, architecture and portraits.iii) Some 23 autograph letters by others including J.M.W. Turner (arranging for James Lennox of New York '...to view the work of art at Denmark Hill Slave Ship...'), Ruskin's father John James Ruskin, George Cruikshank, Giulia Grisi (signed musical quotation from Verdi's Il Trovatore), his physician Dr Henry Jephson, John Brown (3), George Allen, Charles Eliot Norton (from whom Goodspeed received Ruskin's autograph), J. A. Froude, Joan Ruskin Severn, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Harry Inglis, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Carlyle (to Robert Browning regarding her uncle's funeral), and Lord Egremont; with others regarding the publication of Praeterita, additional photographs and cut signatures.iv) Printer's proof sheets of Chapter XI Volume 2 with corrections and annotations by Ruskin in black ink., bound at the end of volume 2.Footnotes:AN IMPORTANT EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET WITH 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY RUSKIN, ASSEMBLED BY AND BOUND FOR THE EMINENT RUSKIN COLLECTOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED OF BOSTON.Praeterita, the story of Ruskin's early life, was published in 28 parts at intervals from July 1885 to July 1889 when ill-health took its toll on the author and the series remained unfinished: '...Praeterita is a delightful work, a rewriting of Ruskin's life that makes it unreliable as a source of biographical fact, yet an accurate portrait of the author's mind...' (Robert Hewison, ODNB). This finely-bound set of Praeteritia is the result of a collaboration in the early years of the twentieth century between Ruskin's friend and literary executor, the American Charles Eliot Norton, who supplied the parts (as evidenced by the ownership inscriptions on the bound-in wrappers), and the eminent Ruskin collector, bibliophile and bookseller Charles E. Goodspeed, who organised the extra material and binding, supplying much of it from his own extensive collection.The extra material Goodspeed carefully chose to include in this edition is not organised in exact chronological order but fitted in where deemed appropriate to fit the text, and includes several important autograph letters by Ruskin amongst the wealth of material. Although some of the letters are marked in pencil presumably for the purposes of publication, most are apparently unpublished, with one particularly revealing letter bearing the pencilled note 'Rosie... perhaps too 'intime' to print?...'. Goodspeed has indeed selected some particularly personal letters for inclusion, several relating to his relationships with young girls, one to Charles Newton for example enthuses about his engagement to Effie Gray ('...far above my deservings...'), and another to his close friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, where, in a highly intimate letter, he complains of '...that wretched child...' (presumably the deeply religious Rose La To... 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
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (CAIUS)The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, 12 small profile portraits of each Emperor, lacks 3 leaves (pp. 5-8 and 29-30 of final section), title lightly soiled, 2 leaves from Sidney's Arcadia misbound amongst preliminaries, one upper rule cropped, modern calf antique [ESTC S126802], folio (275 x 175mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1606This 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
TACITUS (PUBLIUS CORNELIUS)The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of Agricola], 2 parts in one vol., woodcut initials, engraved diagram, without initial and final blanks, contemporary calf, covers gilt with central lozenge, rebacked preserving sections of original spine [ESTC S117625], folio (280 x 180mm.), [colophon:] A. Hatfield, for J. Norton, 1612Footnotes:Provenance: Thomas Cotton (presumably the 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662, and heir to the Cottonian Library) ownership inscription on first title; John Delafons, ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 1793; Carnsdale Farm, Birkenhead, blindstamps on title and following leaf.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
WESLEY (JOHN) - IRELANDDocument signed ('John Wesley'), a Letter of Attorney with reference to a deed of assignment dated 3 November 1747 with Andrew Conyngham of the city of Dublin, releasing 'a parcell of ground situate on the South side of Dolphins Barn lane in the County of Dublin containing in front of the said Lane Forty three feet and in Depth one hundred and sixty eight feet', appointing James Sayers, shopkeeper 'my true and lawfull attorney', and authorising him to dispose of the premises for 'such sum or sums of money as my said attorney shall think fit', countersigned by John Jones and W. Briggs, with red wax seal and paper duty seals, docketed on reverse, 1 page, stained, torn at folds, holes with some loss to text, backed with paper, folio (410 x 325mm.), Dublin, 10 March 1752Footnotes:'A PARCELL OF GROUND SITUATE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF DOLPHINS BARN LANE': John Wesley's property transaction concerning a Dublin Meeting House in the early days of Methodism in Ireland. In August 1747, John Wesley arrived in Dublin and preached to large crowds at the Methodists' first premises in Marlborough Street, at a site now occupied by the Abbey Theatre. Within days, a mob attacked and vandalised the buildings and they were forced to find alternative premises (Rev. D. A. Levistone Cooney, The Methodist Chapels in Dublin, Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 57, 2004, pp.152-163). They soon settled on a 'large building in Cork Street where the looms were kept, called 'The Weavers Store'', which could be turned into a meeting room and spacious accommodation (C.H. Crookshank, History of Methodism in Ireland, Vol. I, Belfast, 1885). Charles Wesley refers to it in a letter to Ebenezer Blackwell '...stating that 'we have a very advantageous offer made us of a house and garden', saying that he has written to his brother about the matter and that likewise [Charles] Perronet has written to his friends in an effort to secure the necessary funding. He asks Blackwell for £20 for the same purpose. Blackwell evidently obliged, for in a letter of 2 February 1748 Charles thanks him for 'the bill' which he has just received. It is evident from a reading of the later materials that 'the Barn' became a centre point of activity for the nascent Methodist movement in Dublin...'. On 25 October he opened the 'new house at Dolphin's Barn, by preaching to a great multitude within and without', (Kenneth G. C. Newport, Charles Wesley in Ireland (1747-1748): A Reconstruction from Primary Sources, Bulletin of the Methodist Historical Society of Ireland). Although Charles Wesley notes that the house and garden could accommodate nearly 3,000 people, there was some disagreement amongst scholars about the true size of the premises, a debate which our document can now lay to rest. John Wesley, in his Journal for 14 July 1750, commented on the good behaviour of the multitude at Dolphin's Barn ('...and neither did I observe in the numerous congregation, any that appeared careless or inattentive...').For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RORKE'S DRIFT - JOHN CHARD'S MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT'Rorke's Drift. 22-23 Jany. 1879', Chard's autograph draft of the account of Rorke's Drift which he wrote and presented to Queen Victoria, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 40 pages, mostly written in brown ink with the corrections and annotations (in the text and margins) in blue and brown ink, one ink sketch of a mountain range (besides a description of a scene viewed through field glasses, '... and could see the enemy moving in the distant hills & apparently in large force - Large numbers of them moving to my left until Lion Hill of Isandlwana...'), and a similar pencil sketch on final page, the sheets (all bifolia) loose in contemporary paper wrappers, titled in red and black ink on upper cover (light soiling, 2 tears in blank area of upper cover), the first 16 pages 8vo, the remainder folio, [c.1879-1880]; together with a manuscript sketch by Chard of Rorke's Drift, on tracing paper, black ink with foliage and trees in green, major sites (numbered 1-15) identified in red ink, with key beneath image, frayed with short tears at edges, 210 x 320mm., [c.1879-1880] (2)Footnotes:'AS DARKNESS CAME ON WE WERE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED...' - JOHN CHARD'S 40-PAGE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF RORKE'S DRIFT ON 22 JANUARY 1879. An extensively annotated and corrected full draft of the account that Chard presented to Queen Victoria, together with an accompanying sketch of the battlefield. John Chard (1847-1897) was sent to serve in the Anglo-Zulu War with the 5th company, Royal Engineers, arriving at Durban on 4 January 1879. The company moved to Rorke's Drift, a post consisting of a kraal, a commissariat store, and a small hospital building close to a crossing on the Buffalo River. On the afternoon of 22 January, the very day on which Chard was left in charge of the station, whilst his superiors left to hurry forward a company of the 24th regiment, news arrived of the massacre of British troops at Isandlwana the day before. In consultation with Lieutenant G. Bromhead and other officers, Chard 'counselled against retreat in favour of defence... and defensive positions were prepared. The store and hospital buildings were loopholed and barricaded, and connected by walls constructed with mealie bags and a couple of wagons' (ODNB), the garrison consisting of eight officers and 131 non-commissioned officers and men (of whom thirty-five were sick in the hospital). Attacked by a force of some 3000 Zulus, the garrison survived a dramatic night, the unfolding events vividly recounted in Chard's manuscript account. By the time of the enemy retreat, more than 370 Zulus were dead, and the British force had lost fifteen men with twelve wounded. Immediately recognised as an event of enormous personal bravery and political importance for the British Empire's standing (coming so soon after the heavy losses at Isandlwana), the action resulted in the presentation of a record eleven Victoria Cross medals. Chard, forever afterwards known as one of 'The Heroes of Rorke's Drift' (along with Bromhead), was presented with his medal by Sir Garnet Wolseley on 16 July. Immortalised in the film Zulu, starring Stanley Baker as Chard and Michael Caine as Lieutenant Bromhead, Rorke's Drift has remained one of the most famous single battles in the course of British military history.Arriving back in England on 2 October Chard, already the recipient of the Order of the Victoria Cross, was met with a summons to visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle on 13 October. She was enormously impressed with Chard the man (she sent a laurel wreath to his funeral in 1897), and his description of the events in which he played such a crucial role, so much so that she requested that he put down on paper his account of the battle. This Chard did, signing and dating the neatly written-up final version in January 1880. This was presented to her on Chard's behalf by Captain Fleetwood Isham Edwards, the Queen's Groom-in-Waiting, at Windsor Castle on 21 February 1880. In an accompanying note Edwards described the account as 'a simple soldier like account of very gallant deeds, & a thrilling record of a terrible night's work', continuing 'Major Chard much regrets the unavoidable delay which has occurred in its preparation, but, as perhaps your Majesty may remember, he lost most of his notes'.Provenance: John Chard V.C, R.E.; by descent to the present owner.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
CHARD'S HOMECOMING - ILLUMINATED ADDRESSESIlluminated address presented to John Chard R.E., V.C. by the 'Inhabitants of North Curry, Othery [Somerset] and Neighbourhood, with which you and your family have been and are connected.... expression our heartfelt admiration of your self-devotion, talent and gallantry in the Zulu War, particularly during that trying night at Rorkes Drift... [where] you kept at bay an almost overpowering force of the enemy, and... saved the Colony of Natal from destruction and defended the honour of your Country... Presented the 3rd Day of October 1879', manuscript on vellum, black ink, with heading ('To Major John Rouse Merriott Chard...'), opening sentences and important words ('Rorkes Drift', 'Zulu War', 'Colony of Natal', 'Victoria Cross') illuminated in red, blue, purple and gold inks, the text within border of red and blue, with decoration in each corner of a Zulu shield and spears, and ornament of army pith helmet with crossed Union Jack flags in lower margin, signed by 32 persons (including the Chairman, Rev. Browne), in 5 columns beneath address, mounted on original wooden rollers, within original purple morocco cylinder case, address approximately 530 x 430mm., 1879--[TAUNTON] Manuscript address to John Chard V.C., from 'the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Taunton', praising his role at Rorke's Drift, ink on vellum, signed by Meyer Jacobs, Mayor of Taunton, and the town clerk, with the Common Seal of the Borough of Taunton in red wax, old folds, 365 x 285mm., 3 October 1879; together with a decorative illuminated address presented by 'The Borough of Langport, Eastover [Somerset], 1st November, 1879', the address framed and glazed, with the original silk-lined presentation case [1879] (3)Footnotes:CHARD'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN HOME TO SOMERSET, the day after his arrival back from South Africa, on 3 October 1879. As announced in the local newspaper 'The hero of Rorke's Drift met with a cordial reception yesterday at North Curry, near Taunton. Nearly 4000 people assembled to welcome his arrival on a visit to his brother-in-law, Major Barrret. An illuminated address of congratulation and welcome was presented to Major Chard by the rector... a procession was then formed, and its line of march led through the village, which was profusely decorated with flags, flowers and arches of garlands'. Earlier in the day his train had been met at Taunton by the Mayor and with equally large crowds of well-wishers, before he travelled a few miles to North Curry (close to his sister's home at Moredon), the first stop of his unofficial tour of the country.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYAL ENGINEERS, CHATHAMJohn Chard's surveying and drawing instrument wooden case, with 6 instruments on purple velveteen-covered tray (others missing), box in mahogany, lid with inset metal panel stamped 'Major Chard V.C. Royal Engineers', brass corner-pieces and decorations, with key (working), 165 x 210 x 60mm.--MANUSCRIPT ADDRESS TO 'MAJOR CHARD R.E. V.C.', from 'The High Constable and Court Leet of the ancient Manor of Chatham', expressing on behalf of the inhabitants of Chatham their 'profound admiration and warmest appreciation of the cool judgment, consumate skill, and heroic valour....' shown by Chard at Rorke's Drift, and noting their pride that Chard 'received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood...', ink on paper, 2 pages on a bifolium with conjugate blank, signed by G.H. Delabour (High Constable), Edward Winch (Foreman), and George Winch (Steward), folio (375 x 245mm.), 9 November 1879 (2)Footnotes:John Chard passed through the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, before being commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 15 July 1868, after which he spent two years training at their Chatham headquarters, prior to his first posting to Bermuda in October 1870. In his address of thanks to Chard for heroism at Rorke's Drift the High Constable of Chatham proclaimed 'It is gratifying to us to recollect that you received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood, and that your training there contributed in some degree to the valuable services you rendered to your Queen and country [at Rorke's Drift]'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BOURNE (SAMUEL) AND CHARLES SHEPHERDThe Coronation Durbar. Delhi 1903, FIRST EDITION, 133 platinum prints by Bourne & Shepherd, mounted on 101 leaves of thick green paper (recto only, several loose), title and text printed in purple on special paper within a decorative gold printed border, publisher's red morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative border enclosing title 'Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903. of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I, G.M.I.E.' above the Order of the Star of India badge and crown in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked to match, folio (450 x 355mm.), Calcutta, Simla, Bombay and London, Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, for Bourne & Shepherd, [1903]Footnotes:A magnificent record of the 1903 Delhi Durbar to commemorate the accession of Edward VII, a spectacular event lasting thirteen days 'marked by displays of unexampled magnitude... [eclipsing] the splendours of the vanished Empire of the Moghuls' (introduction), culminating in a procession of the lavish retinues of the Native Chiefs.Bourne & Shepherd were the official photographers to the Durbar, and the album includes numerous portraits of Indian princely rulers (the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajas of Baroda, Mysore and Kashmir, and those of the Shan, and Southern Baluchistan); Lord and Lady Curzon on the State elephant 'Lutchman Pershad'; many views of the State entry into Delhi; panoramas of the Durbar Amphitheatre (which could hold 12,000 spectators), the processions including those of elephants, camels and troops.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
EXPLORATION & SCIENCEAutograph letter signed ('Fridjof Nansen') to mountaineer and Arctic explorer Edward Whymper ('My dear Whymper'), asking his advice on equipment for the Fram expedition, thanking him for the aneroid barometer ('...This will certainly be a most valuable addition to our instrumental equipment which I dare say will be first rate...') and discussing other equipment he intends taking ('...I have previously three pocket aneroids... which I used across Greenland... we have three mercury barometers...& one selfregistring Barometer. If you think, however that the aluminium aneroid... will be a very good one and consequently of importance I shall be glad to get it... excuse great haste...'), 2 pages, creased with some small tears, 4to (250 x 200mm.), Lysaker, 28 March [18]93; with five autograph letters to Whymper from Richard Owen (making arrangements), two from John Tyndall ('...You are now among the mountains. I start tomorrow from Hindhead – not with a view of expending energy as you do, but in the hope of collecting it if I can...'), T.H. Huxley and W.H. Flower (thanking him for his book on the Andes), 7 pages, in an envelope docketed 'Autographs/ from C. Whymper/ Feb. 1933', creasing, some staining, 8vo, British Museum and elsewhere, 1866 to 1892 (6)Footnotes:'A VALUABLE ADDITION TO OUR INSTRUMENTAL EQUIPMENT': FRIDJOF NANSEN SEEKS ADVICE FROM FELLOW ARCTIC-EXPLORER EDWARD WHYMPER.Nansen writes in haste a month before leaving for the Fram Expedition of 1893-96, during which he reached a record 'farthest north' of 86°14′. In his account of the expedition, he writes of the importance of taking the correct scientific instruments: 'In addition to the collection of instruments I had used on my Greenland expedition, a great many new ones were provided, and no pains were spared to get them as good and complete as possible... Of special importance were a self-registering aneroid barometer (barograph) and a pair of self-registering thermometers (thermographs)... Altogether, our scientific equipment was especially excellent, thanks in great measure to the obliging assistance rendered me by many men of science' (Farthest North, 1897, chapter 2). One of the 'men of science' he consulted during his preparations was Edward Whymper, whose own expedition to Greenland in 1867 had opened up greater possibilities for Arctic exploration, and who had published a pamphlet, How to use the Aneroid Barometer, in 1891. Nansen's experiments with equipment and techniques were to influence polar explorers for years to come. These letters come from the collection of Sir George Buckston Browne (see lot 18).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Ulwar and its Art Treasures, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE MAHARAJAH BEY SINGH OF ALWAR, additional chromolithographed title, colour portrait of the Maharao Raja of Ulwar (with printed label noting that on 1 January 1889 he was 'granted the hereditary distinction of Maharaja' pasted in margin), 80 plates (numbered 1-79 and 17A, mostly chromolithographed, 2 double-page), illustrations (some colour, others photographic) in the text, all leaves on stubs, original decorative black morocco gilt, each cover with gilt-tooled border enclosing a large central panel of red morocco with elaborate design, gilt dentelles, extremities rubbed, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1888Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY FROM MAHARAJAH SIR JAI SINGH OF ALWAR, IN A SPECIAL GILT MOROCCO BINDING. Hendley based his pioneering study of Mughal art treasures on the extensive collection of the Maharaja of Alwar ('at whose whole cost this book is published', the total value of the collection estimated by the author to be about two million pounds sterling), and research he carried out 'in the native capitals of Rajputana'.Provenance: Captain Smith, presentation inscription from Maharaja Sir Jai Singh of Alwar, 'To Captain Smith. In memory of the pleasant time we spent together, and as but a poor return for all the trouble you took with with me especially on 5th September 1902 from yours sincerely Jey Singh, Ulwar'. Jai Singh (1882-1937) succeeded his father in 1892, and ruled Alwar until 1933.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
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Damascening on Steel or Iron, a Practised in India, FIRST EDITION, tinted photographic frontispiece ('Group of Damasceners in Gold'), 31 colour photo-chromo-lithographed plates by W. Griggs from water colour drawings 'by Murli, Nand Lal, Chaju Lal, Ram Gopal, Jiwan, and other Indian artists', calf-backed cloth, original decorative title panel (printed in silver) mounted on upper cover, folio (375 x 270mm.), W. Griggs & Sons, 1892This 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
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)The Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550 to 1897, FIRST EDITION, 26 plates (18 colour), publisher's pictorial red morocco gilt, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 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
Loading...-
596780 item(s)/page