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Vacher (Thomas Brittain & Sydney). Two albums containing 141 watercolour paintings by Thomas Brittain Vacher and Sydney Vacher, dated 1836-1904, first album contains forty-two watercolours by T.B. Vacher, including studies of Carisbrooke Castle, Arundel Church, Felpham Church in Sussex, Easbury House, Bramshill House in Hampshire, Stonehenge, Corfe Castle, Wayford Manor Farm, Pendennis Castle, Babbicombe, Lanyon Cromlech near St. Just, Tanby Castle, and St. Catherine's Island Tenby etc., second album contains ninety-nine watercolours by Sydney Vacher (inc. few drawings), including studies of Canons Asby, Eltham Palace, Whitby, Kenilworth Castle, Boulogne Old Town, Wimeteux, Montreuil Sur Mer, Athens, and Mount Vesuvius from Naples, together with portrait studies, and five etc., laid down on album pages (many loose), both contemp. half morocco, bindings worn and with adhesive tape to spines, folio Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805-1880) and Sydney Vacher (fl.1882-1893). (2)
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Borlase (William). Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles, Exemplified and proved by Monuments Now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands..., 2nd ed., 1769, folding eng. county map, twenty-five eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), numerous eng. illusts. to text, some occ. offsetting, closed tears to inner margin of title and repaired, contemp. calf, rebacked & corners repaired, spine a little faded, folio (1)
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Borlase (William). Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify'd and prov'd by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands ..., 1st ed., Oxford, 1754, list of subscribers, single-page county map, twenty-three eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), numerous eng. illusts. to text, contemp. calf, rebacked & corners repaired, boards slightly rubbed, folio (1)
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Carew (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall and an Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now First Published from the Manuscript, 1723, title printed in red & black, publisher's advertisement leaf facing title, occ. minor spotting, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked & corners repaired, 4to (1)
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Ashmole (Elias). The Antiquities of Berkshire, 3 vols., 1719, eng. port. frontis. to first vol. (relaid), large folding map by W. Hollar (dated 1666), with Prospect of Windsor Castle at top, browned, several tears to folds, tape-repaired on verso, some spotting, endpapers renewed, contemp. panelled calf, later rebacks, corners showing, 8vo (3)
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Camden (William). Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands ..., 2 vols., 3rd Gibson ed., 1753, eng. port. frontis. to first vol., fifty-one double-page eng. maps by Robert Morden, some browning to inner margins at front and rear of each vol., one or two leaves loose, and with some minor marks to margins, contemp. calf, worn with covers det., folio Chubb CXVI. (1)
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Deering (Charles). Nottingham Vetus et Nova, or An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham, pub. Nottingham, Ayscough & Willington, 1751, folding eng. frontis. attached to title with cloth tape, folds repaired with adhesive tape, extended inner margins to first two leaves, twenty-four copper-eng. plts., some folding incl. one large folding plan, a few minor tears and repairs, a few contemporary ms. annotations, occasional light spotting, recent half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, 4to (1)
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Dugdale (William). The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated; From Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes..., reprinted by John Jones, Coventry, 1765, title printed in red & black, folding eng. frontis. (lined with linen to verso, slightly creased & fold torn), seven folding eng. maps and numerous eng. plts. (some folding), engs. to text (many by Hollar), first leaf of index torn to upper outer corner with slight loss, some plts. & pages of text and few repaired, later half calf, red morocco title label, folio Upcott III, 1263. (1)
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Dyer (G.). History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge; including Notices relating to the Founders and Eminent Men, 2 vols., 1814, addn. eng. title to first vol. & thirty-one eng. plts., (correct as list), some spotting, a.e.g., contemp. straight-grained olive morocco gilt, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, plus one other Cambridge related (3)
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Gunton (Symon). The History of the Church of Peterburgh, wherein the Most Remarkable Things concerning that Place, from the First Foundation thereof ..., ed. Symon Patrick, printed for Richard Chiswell, 1686, imprimatur leaf at front (strenghtened with minor loss to fore-edge), four copper-eng. plts. at rear, very sl. chipped at fore-edge margin of final plt., later panelled calf boards with recent calf reback and morocco label, boards rubbed, corners strengthened,folio (1)
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Le Neve (John). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or, An Essay Towards Deducing A Regular Succession of All the Principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, Collegiate Church or Chapel (now in being) in those parts of Great Britain called England & Wales, from the first erection thereof, to this present year 1715 ..., pub. 1716, ruled in red throughout, recent half calf gilt, folio (1)
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Leycester (Sir Peter). Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland. The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire... Whereunto is Annexed a Transcript of Doomsday-Book, so Far as it Concerneth Cheshire, Taken Out of the Original Record, 1st ed., 1673, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and armorials, uncol. folding engraved map of "The Countye Palatine of Chester" by John Speed (Roger Rea edition), long handling tear and a few short edge tears expertly repaired, errata leaf at rear, contemp. bookplate, hinges repaired, contemp. speckled calf, rubbed, rebacked and recornered, folio Wing L1943. (1)
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Milner (Rev. John). The History, Civil and Ecclesiastical & Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged, 2 vols., pub. Winchester, 1809, ex-lib. copy with oval ink stamp occuring periodically to margins throughout, two eng. titles and thirteen eng. plts., incl. four folding, all correct as list, orig. boards, some wear, esp. to spines, 4to With ALS from Charles Henry Wheeler of Winchester to Charles Thomas Allen tipped-in to front pastedown of first volume. (2)
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Owen (John and Bowen, Emmanuel). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; Being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Crossroads in England and Wales..., 4th ed., pub. Thomas Bowles, 1753, eng. title (detached), 8pp. map index (with slight loss of text to first leaf), 273 uncol. eng. strip road maps printed back to back, disbound 4to Chubb CLIII. (1)
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Stewart (Mary, Lady Elton). Four Panoramic Views of Edinburgh and the Surrounding Country, from the top of Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, pub. by Francis Cameron, 1822, four double-page b&w litho. panoramic views, printed by Hullmandel, single leaf at front, with printed extract from Scott's Marmion, some light spotting, one or two minor marginal stains, orig. printed wrappers, soiled and some wear (upper wrapper frayed with a little loss to edges), slim oblong folio, approx. 330 x 440 mm The rare first issue (one copy located at National Library of Scotland only). A second issue was published in 1823 (three locations in the U.K.). (1)
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Percy Thomas, a portrait and landscape genre and architectural painter and etcher, studied under Whistler, address in London, 1846-1922. A collection of six etchings; two of Chelsea Embankment, first state, 1884; third state, 1884; another, second state, 1871, on the lefthand side of etching "Briton Rivere 1871"; another "Trial Proof" depicting church and figures"; another of Winchester, 1896; and one of old London Housees, all signed in pencil "Percy Thomas", sizes 25cm x 19cm, 21.5cm x 16cm, 24cm x 17cm, 19cm x 22.5cm, 20cm x 13cm, 27cm x 19.5cm, (respectively).
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Various Medals , including an 1879 Victoria Three Graces retro pattern set in sterling silver, copper and gold coloured metal (three coins); two 1937 retro Edward VIII and Commonwealth of Australia three coin sets; a 2002 Frankland Mint Calendar Medal, 76mm; His Holiness John Paul II First Visit Plaques; a 1981 St Paul's Royal Wedding Medal; and a 1985 Great Western Railway 150th anniversary medal (7 cased medals)
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Two poetry books, entitled "Poetry, Sheer Poetry" by Alfred Pellatt; and "The Cockney Poet" by Charles R. Clifford, both signed by respective authors; together with a First Edition of "The Jingle Book" compiled by Lavinia Derwent; and "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stephenson, having decorations by Eve Garnet.
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Allom (Thomas). Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, 2 vols. (First and Second Series) in one, pub Fisher, n.d., c.1840, addn. eng. vign. title to each part, ninety-four steel-eng. views, two maps, some old waterstaining, mostly marginal, upper hinge broken, contemp diced calf, worn and marked, 4to (1)
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Demidoff (Anatole de). Travels in Southern Russia, and the Crimea; through Hungary, Wallachia, & Moldavia, during the year 1837, half-titles present, port. frontis. to vol. 1, folding eng. route map and a very large folding hand-col. eng. geological map, num. wood engs., pubs. ads. at rear of vol. 2, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat damp stained (new endpapers), large 8vo Atabey 337 (first French edition). (2)
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Ferrario (Giulio). Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du Gouvernement, de la Milice, de la Religion, des Arts, Sciences et Usages de tous les Peuples anciens et Modernes, 17 vols. (complete), Milan, 1825-27, six folding eng. maps, hand-col. in outline (comprising double hemisphere world map, Asia, America, Europe, Italy), numerous hand-col. aquas. and etchings, uncut, orig. boards, some wear to extrems., thick folio Atabey 427. Blackmer 588. Sabin 24164. The first Italian edition, comprising Europe in 9 vols., Africa in 2 vols., Asia in 4 vols. and America in 2 vols. In some sets the plates are bound separately which can give a false idea of the number of volumes. According to Brunet this immense work was published in 143 parts simultaneously in French and Italian between 1816 and 1834. An additional volume of index was published in 1829 and in the Italian a three-volume supplement appeared in 1833-37. See front cover of this catalogue. (17)
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Voyages and Travel (so titled on spines), 14 vols., pub. T. Mason & G. Lane, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, N.Y., 1838, two or three wood. eng. illusts. to each vol., some foxing throughout, orig. uniform dark green cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, one or two small snags to joints, small 8vo The titles are Voyages through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Chinese Sea (see Sabin 100844), Travels in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Voyages in the Arctic Seas, from 1818 to 1820, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, Vols. I & II (see Sabin 100841), Arctic Travels; or, An Account of the Several Land Expeditions to Determine the Geography of the Northern Part of the American Continent (not in Sabin), Travels in European Russia, compiled from the most recent Authorities, A Voyage through the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, compiled from the most authentic and recent Authorities, Travels in Northern Asia, compiled from authentic sources, Travels in South-Eastern Asia, compiled from the most authentic and recent Authorities, Travels in South-Western Asia, Travels in Africa, Travels in South America (see Sabin 96497), Travels in Switzerland, compiled from the most recent Authorities, & Travels in Spain and Portugal. An unusual American reprint of a series of accounts of voyages and travels in various parts of the world, designed for the younger reader, first published by the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland, Kildare Place, Dublin, c. 1820-30. (14)
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Albert (Prince Consort). The Progress of Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, The Orange Free State, and Port Natal, in the Year 1860, Cape Town, 1861 [1860], seventeen mounted albumen prints by incl. vign. to half-title with decorative border, nine tinted woodcut illusts. to text, some dampmarking to prelims., modern full morocco, 4to The first book to be published in South Africa using real photographs. (1)
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Hill (David Octavius & Adamson, Robert). Two carbon print portraits of Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers, both carbon prints made by Jessie Bertram in 1916 from Adamson's original salt print paper negatives of 1840s, each approx. 15 x 11 cm, pasted into the front and rear of a copy of Chalmers's Correspondence, ed. William Hanna (1853), spotting throughout, ink stain at foot affecting text block edges and upper cover, presentation inscription to Anne J. Guthrie from her husband in 1916 and below it the initials J.W.B. [Jessie Bertram?], dated 1st August 1921, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo The painting of 'The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland; Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission, 18th May 1843', is important as being the first work of art painted with the help of photographic images. The painting took Hill twenty-three years to complete. Chalmers was the central figure in the Disruption picture and Moderator of the Disruption Assembly. Jessie Bertram made a series of carbon print copies from the original negatives in 1916 including these two of Chalmers. (1)
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Copper Plate Magazine. The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints, consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views in Great Britain and Ireland, Beautifully Engraved by the Most Eminent Artists from the Paintings and Drawings of the First Masters, 2 vols. in one, n.d., c. 1790, 128 uncol. copper plt. engs., including views in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to margins, a.e.g., contemp. red morocco gilt, heavily rubbed, oblong 4to (1)
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Daniel (William Barker). Rural Sports, printed for B. & R. Crosby & Co., 1813, eng. port. frontis. & title, sixteen eng. plts., list of subscribers present, some brown staining to fore-edge margins of initial leaves (inc. plts.), edges rough trimmed, orig. boards with worn spine strip, boards worn, 4to, (large paper copy. Possibly being the supplement volume which accompanied the earlier volumes of Rural Sports published between 1801-2. Initial text in the work includes "A catalogue of books on angling"), together with Lawrence (Richard), The Complete Farrier, and British Sportsman: Containing a Systematic Enquiry into the Structure and Animal Economy of the Horse..., pub. Thomas Kelly, n.d., c.1830, nine eng. plts. only (lacks frontis.), free-endpapers removed, first & last leaves creased, contemp. half calf, red morocco title label, slightly worn to joints & extrems., upper board lacks leather to lower outer corner, 4to (2)
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Gerard (John). The Herball or General Historie of Plantes..., Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson..., 2nd ed., printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633, eng. title torn with major loss (lined to verso), following leaf close-trimmed to margins, numerous woodcut botanical engravings throughout, including some with early hand-colouring, dec. woodcut initials, lacks first and last blanks, leaf 6N5 torn to upper outer corner with slight loss, leaf 6N6 with closed tear, few pages of index frayed at edges (leaf 7A1 with repair to lower outer corner), occ. dust soiling & minor marks, recent full calf, folio STC. 11751. (1)
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Markham (Gervase). A Way to Get Wealth. Containing Sixe Principall Vocations or Callings in Which Every Good Husband or House-Wife may Lawfully Imploy Themselves..., the First Five Books Gathered by G.M., the Last by Master W.L. for the Benefit of Great Britain, 12th ed., corrected and augmented, printed by John Streater for George Sawbridge, 1668, lacks general title, separate title to each part present, (title of 1st part replaced with a title page from a 1623 copy), initial 3 leaves detached and with repair to inner margins, woodcut initials and illusts., some spotting and few marks, last four leaves near detached and frayed to edges (last leaf repaired to inner margin and torn with loss of text), contemp. calf, upper board detached, loss of leather at head & foot of spine, rubbed and some wear to boards, 4to Contents includes, Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beast and fowles and for the general cure of their diseases. 12th ed. 1668; Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations. 10th ed. 1668; The English house-wife. 8th ed. 1668; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, or, A direction to the husbandman for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent and Sussex..., 1668; Markham's farewell to husbandry, or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation ... 9th ed. 1668; A new orchard..., 5th ed. 1668. Wing M680. (1)
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Anon. The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a collection and improvement of all that has been written upon this subject: with many new experiments. Shewing the different ways of angling and the best methods of taking fresh-water fish, printed for Essop Curll, 1714, vi + 112pp., some spotting, mostly to first and last few leaves, lacks frontis, as often, 19th-c. half tree calf, rubbed and a little fraying to extremities, 8vo Westwood & Satchell, p.18. (1)
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Brookes (Richard). The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: with the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish, 1st ed., 1740, title printed in red and black (rubbed and marked), num. wood cut illusts. to text, one or two old marginal notes in ink, some marks and soiling to front and rear of vol., lacks final advert. leaf (N4), final two leaves with restoration to upper outer corners, modern plain calf, 8vo, together with a 4th edition of the same work, with leaf I6 torn with a little loss to fore-margin, sl. affecting a few words, bound in old sheep, with modern reback, both 8vo Westwood & Satchell, p.42 (first item). (2)
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Lathy (T. P.). The Angler; A Poem, in Ten Cantos ... with rules to choose fishing rods, lines, hooks, floats, baits, and to make artificial flies ..., 1822, eng. frontis., wood-eng. illusts. to text, untrimmed, later half green morocco gilt, spine somewhat dulled, 8vo, together with South (Theophilus, pseud. Edward Chitty), The Fly Fisher's Text Book, pub. Ackermann, 1841, eng. frontis., eng. title and nine (of 10) eng. plts., pubs. ads. at rear, orig. blindstamped cloth, rubbed and frayed with some wear to head and foot of spine and outer corners, 8vo, plus Walton (Izaak and Cotton, Charles), The Complete Angler, 2 vols., pub. Chiswick, 1826, contemp. half green morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to extrems., 12mo, and [Hughes, William], The Practical Angler, by Piscator, 1st ed., 1842, six eng. plts., first few leaves loose, orig. cloth, worn with backstrip def., 8vo (5)
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[Smith, J. and others]. The Complete Fisher, or the True Art of Angling. Being a clear and speedy way of taking all sorts of freshwater fish, with the worm, fly, paste, and other baits in their proper seasons..., 1740, woodcut frontis (torn with loss), woodcut illusts. to text, title torn at head of margin without loss, some spotting, contemp plain sheep, worn with joints partly cracked, 12mo. The first edition appeared in 1696. Westwood & Satchell list this as the 10th edition. (1)
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Caricatures. A folio album of approx. sixty early 19th c. hand-col. caricatures after Rowlandson, Dighton, Boitard, Bunbury, Bretherton, Lane, Collet, Morton and others, together with a number of coloured topographical views etc. (six small-format hand-col. litho. views of Brighton, nine small litho. views of Blaise Hamlet, 1825, two hand-col. aqua. views of Weymouth, etc.), all mounted in contemp. calf-backed album, some wear, large folio The album includes: Country Christening, pub. McLean 1825, A Merry Christmas/The Same to You Sir, by G. Hunt after M.E., pub. Pyall & Hunt, A Coroner's Inquest, pub. McLean, 1825, Taste A La Mode, after Boitard, 1745, The Triumph of Sentiment, after Rowlandson, Reposing on a Bed of Roses, by Argus, pub. Walker, April 1806, God Save the King - by a New Set of Performers - being their first appearance these twenty years, & Blowing-Up - the New Opposition, both by Argus, pub. Walker, March 1805, Cries of London, by Marks after Rowlandson, pub. Ackermann, Jan. 1st 1799, Billiards, by Bunbury, two uncol. aquas. after David Wilkie, Charles Wright's Champaign Driving away Real Pain, by G. Hunt after Theodore Lane, The Cotillion Dance, after Collet, pub. 10 March 1771, three small col. aquas. after Gottfried Mind, The New Steam Carriage, by Pyall after Morton, etc. (1)
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Douglas (Alfred, Lord, 1870-1945). Autograph Letter Signed ('Alfred Douglas') on headed paper of the Academy, 2nd May 1907, to the playwright St. John Hankin, 'I thought your play [probably "The Cassilis Engagement" or a revival of "The Return of the Prodigal"] splendid. So much so that I have suppressed de Selincourt's notice which I didn't think good enough & written another & longer, & I hope more appreciative one myself', continuing that he would like his wife to see it and could he have two tickets for the stalls for Saturday, with a postscript 'My article on your play is my first essay in dramatic criticism, so you must judge it accordingly', 2 pages, 4to 'Douglas had already dissipated his share of his father's fortune and the insistent problem of obtaining a settled income was solved in 1907 by Sir Edward Tennant (later Lord Glenconner) who offered him the editorship of the Academy which he had recently purchased', DNB. (1)
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Lawrence (Thomas Edward, 1888-1935). A classical surrealist mixed media collage portrait of T.E. Lawrence by Dan Samuels, 1972, with signed ('Daniel') presnetation inscription to balnk area at head of canvas, 'To my pal Tom Beaumont', canvas on board, approx. 73 x 48 cm, together with three related exhibition leaflets for Dan Samuels exhibitions, personalised for Tom And Helen Beaumont One of the exhibition leaflets explains Samuels's interest in T.E. Lawrence. 'A single meeting with a stranger in the British Museum was to influence him more than any other factor in his life. Through this chance meeting with Aircraftsman Shaw he discovered the Elgin Marbles and Greek Mythology... It was then [after Lawrence's death in 1935 that] Dan Samuels learnt for the first time that the man who planted this deep-rooted love for Greek Antiquity was none other than Lawrence of Arabia'. This painting may well have been a present to Tom and Helen Beaumont on their wedding in 1971 and to which Dan and Peggy Sameuls were witnesses. See above for information about Tom Beaumont. (4)
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Smith (Dodie, 1896-1990). Autograph Letter Signed, 9th April 1931, to [Ivor and Estelle Barnard], thanking them for the wire, 'The gallery was pretty hellish on the first night but they have been like lambs ever since and the critics have been wonderfully kind to me', saying how lucky she is and that she must write fifty more letters, together with another similar to Ivor [Barnard], dated 14th October 1932, hoping that they will work together later on, both 1 page, 4to, together with Galsworthy (John, 1867-1933), Autograph Letter Signed, 2nd March 1908, to the playwright St. John Hankin, 'I think your article most admirable', 2 pages, 8vo, plus three Laurence Olivier items including a signed Christmas Card ('Larry') to Ivor Barnard Long before "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1956) Dodie Smith had some success as a playwright for the London stage. Her first play "Autumn Crocus" (1931) was written under the pseudonym C.L. Anthony while working as a toy buyer for Heal's department store, and when the writer's true identity was rumbled the newspaper headline 'Shopgirl Writes Play' quickly followed. (6)
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Steadman (Ralph, illust.), The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll, 1975; Cherrywood Canyon, by Dimitri Sidjanski, 1978; Still Life with Bottle, Whisky According to Ralph Steadman, 1994; The Mildenhall Treasure, by Roald Dahl, 1999, each signed by Steadman, the first vol. with characteristic embellishments by Steadman to title page, the second vol. with elaborate flourish to half-title, printed illusts. throughout, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, together with three others, each signed by Steadman (7)
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Tenniel (Sir John, 1820-1914). Autograph Letter Signed ('John Tenniel'), Maida Vale, 1906-1907 , to Ernest G. Brown, concerning the two portraits of himself by Frank Holl, both commisssioned by Sir William Agnew, the first of which, full face, he thinks must be the one that Brown has acquired and which was in the possession of Mrs Tom Agnew who recently died, Tenniel expresses a wish to see the portrait but comments that his sight is failing badly and he never leaves the house if he can help it, together with a card quoting 'As You Like It', signed, 2 pages, 8vo (2)
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