*Sadlers Wells Society Archive & Nijinksy Foundation Papers. An archive of handwritten and typewritten correspondence relating to the creation of the Sadlers Wells Society, supported by Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell (and of which Philip Morrell was Secretary), 1932, including numerous handwritten and typewritten letters and notes by Philip and Ottoline Morrell, many to 'Billy', Strand House, London WC2, with replies and related correspondence from Lilian Baylis, Malcolm Bullock, handwritten letter from T.S. Eliot to Philip Morrell, dated 28 April 1932, with address 68 Clarence Gate Gardens, Regent's Park, Anthony Eden, Vivienne Haigh Eliot, G.B. Tennison (of the Shakespeare Association) to T.S. Eliot, dated 19 May 1932, Barnett Freedman, Eardley Knollys, Alfred Earl and others, together with a further archive of handwritten and typewritten letters and correspondence relating to the Nijinsky Foundation, 1933-35, principally copies of correspondence from Philip Morrell, Bruce Ottley, John Maynard Keynes (including three signed typewritten letters, one dated February 23, 1934, with address 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury), Romola Nijinsky, etc., two folio printed programmes for the Nijinsky Matinee for the benefit of Vaslav Nijinsky, His Majesty's Theatre, Friday May 28th [1937], plus an envelope of original letters and correspondence (including copies) to Frieda Lawrence (wife of D.H. Lawrence), from Philip Morrell, George Lawrence, solicitors, etc., relating to the controversy over D.H. Lawrence's literary estate, circa 1931, all contained in two box files (2 box files)
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South Africa. An album containing approximately 75 window-mounted and loose gelatin silver print photographs, early 20th century, including views in Johannesburg and ethnographic portraits by F. Pollard, plus mining scenes, buildings, troops, an explosion, etc., 15 x 20 cm and smaller, contemporary cloth, small folio, together with two later albums including photographs of Africa, circa 1950s, including Tanganyika, Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone, plus a smaller album containing 6 early 20th-century photographs of scenes in Tangiers, oblong folio and smaller (4)
Non-Conformist Album. A 19th century folio album of manuscript letters and documents, some printed pamphlets and notices, birth and marriage certificates, etc., relating to the Seaton and Cooper families of Maidstone, Kent, circa 1770-1870, including a handwritten envelope from Samuel Storke, a merchant (who married the sister of John Wilkes), a manuscript family tree written by Robert Cooper of Maidstone, 1862, a pencil sketch of Granmama Cooper's house in Week Street, Maidstone, circa 1830s, and large printed broadside advertisement for the sale of the house in 1841, a manuscript agreement between several brothers in the Ministry met together at Bror Thompson's meeting-house in Boston October 3 1765, an autograph letter by Robert Robinson (1735-1790), the Baptist minister and hymn writer dated Chesterton November 17, 1783, and dressed to Reverend Mr De Coetlogon, Lower Grosvenor Place, Westminster, a manuscript sheet of minutes taken at the quarterly meeting of the General Baptists in West Kent, 1781, an autograph letter from John Harraden to the Earl of Chesterfield, dated 10 November 1808, referring to his imprisonment and pecuniary distress, to Mr William Hayley of Eartham as a referee (patron of William Blake), an autograph letter from Joseph Seaton to his son Benjamen Seaton, dated 30th July, 1797, prior to Benjamin sailing for New York, two birth certificates for Sarah Cooper and Thomas Seaton, issued by Dr. Williams's Library, dated 1798 and 1816, a letter from Israel Lewis to his niece, dated Hampstead, September 11, 1813, presenting a marriage trousseau of 50, a printed pamphlet by Robert Robinson, entitled the History and the Mystery of Good-Friday, 8th edition, Cambridge, 1799, a funeral sermon for Joseph Seaton at the General Baptist Chapel, by Sampson Kingsford, 1812, letters relating to Sarah Seaton, who 'died at school in Ramsgate', etc., all corner-mounted or loosely inserted in 19th century morocco-backed cloth album titled in gilt to upper cover Family Notes, backstrip deficient with upper cover detached, large folio (38 x 27 cm, 15 x 10.5 ins) (1)
Martin (R. Montgomery, editor). Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World..., published John Tallis and Company, 1851, additional decorative title page, engraved frontispiece of The Great Exhibition, two 'comparison plates', eighty-one (complete) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, near contemporary manuscript numbers to upper left corner of each map, map of the Channel islands with small rust mark, the last map (Malay Archipelago...,) with some marginal staining and finger soiling, later endpapers, near contemporary half morocco gilt, rebacked, worn at extremities, folio This edition without the central fold to the maps. (1)
*Anne (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1665-1714). Document Signed, 'Anne R' at the head, Given at Kensington, 12 April 1706, appointing John Burnett ensign 'in the Regiment of Foot to be forthwith raised for Our Service Commanded by Our Trusty & Welbeloved Colonell Roger Townshend; of that Company whereof he himself is Captain', manuscript on vellum, age-soiled and lacking the papered seal, but entirely legible, inlaid in archival paper, oblong folio (24.5 x 36 cm) Roger Townshend, who died in 1709, was MP for Nortfolk and later for Great Yarmouth; he was the brother of Charles, second Viscount Townshend (1674-1738), politician, diplomatist and agricultural innovator, who earned the nickname 'Turnip Townshend' for his championship of the humble vegetable, which he cultivated in a new fashion and used in a successful scheme of crop rotation. (1)
Williamson (F. Harcourt, editor). The Book of Beauty (Late Victorian Era), A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day, 1896, limited edition 80/300, signed by the author to limitation page, numerous monochrome photogravures and illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated white cloth, front board torn to foot, spine slightly rubbed, folio, together with Shaw (Bernard), Saint Joan, A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, 1924, limited illustrated edition of 750 copies, 16 tipped in colour illustrations by C. Ricketts, original decorated boards to white cloth spike in dust jacket, covers toned and chipped with loss to head and foot, folio, and Rossetti (Dante Gabriel), Sonnets, Written In Youth, The Inkwell Press, New York, 1992, limited edition 23/45, signed by the publisher to the limitation page, original decorated boards to red cloth spine, large 4to, plus other early and mid 20th century art and literature reference, including The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, 1910, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)
*France. An album containing 18 albumen print photographs of French architecture, etc., circa 1870, including 6 photographs of chateaux by Mieusement, 24 x 36 cm, original mounts with printed caption, plus a similar size photograph of a chalet by Collard and other photographs of Luchon, etc., various sizes, some photographs and album leaves loose, contemporary cloth, soiling and wear, large folio (1)
North Wales. An album containing 30 platinum print views, circa 1880, the first a small vignette of an engraving, the remainder large format, including views of Carnarvon Castle, Conwy Castle, Bettws-Coed, Lledr Valley, Chester, Holyhead, etc., some views as oval vignettes, 27.5 x 36.5 cm, mounted to rectos of stiff card leaves with neat red ink captions to lower margins, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt with desk bosses and brass upper clasp, rubbed, oblong folio (1)
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Racing & Hunting: [The Sportsman] British Sports and Sportsmen - Racing Coursing and Steeplechasing, folio L. 1911, Part 1, Ltd. Edn. 422 (1000) copies, illus.; Hunting, folio L. 1912, defective, illus., matching cloth; Elliott (E.C.) Fifty Leaders of British Sport, lg. 4to L. 1904, illus., gilt decor., cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (3)
Limited Edition of 150, signed by the ContributorsWylie (Donovan) photograph 32 Counties, with New Writing by Thirty-Two Irish Writers, sm. folio, L. (secker & Warburg) 1989, Ltd. Edn. 6 (150) Copies, Signed by 32 Irish Writers, with original photograph, orig. cloth & d.j., slipcase. Scarce. (1)* Contributors to this collection include, Heaney, Mc Gahern, Stuart, Banville and others.
Box: Irish interest: Robinson (Rev. Stanford) Celtic Illuminative Art, folio D. 1908, First, cold. plts., buckram; Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770 - 1806, 2 vols. L. 1929 - 1930, First Edn., illus., cloth; Foude (J.A.) The English in Ireland in the 18th Century, 3 vols. L. 1887, quarter calf; Joyce (P.W.) Irish Names of Places, 3 vols. D. n.d. cloth; Phillips (W.A.) The Revolution in Ireland, 1906 - 1923, L. 1926; O'Connor (Sir James) History of Ireland, 1798 - 1924, 2 vols. L. 1925; & 12 others of Irish interest, all good. As a box lot. (1)
Co. Galway Indenture: Robert Blake Foster of Ashfield in the County of Galway,... with John Hunt, & Sir John Trail .. Dublin, an indenture dated 1791, 4 large membranes, re Property at Cross Street, Galway, etc. signed; also printed Rental & Particulars of Sale of the Lans of Innisgroo, .. Part of the Lands of Kinvarra.. in the Barony of Kiltartan and County of Galway,.. to be Sold (for)... Robert O'Donnellan Black Forster... etc., on Friday, 20th Jan. 1893, oblong folio, fold., with......
Irish Arts & Crafts: Larmour (P.) The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland, folio Belfast 1992; Gordon-Bowe (N.) & Cumming (E.) The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885 - 1925, 4to D. 1998; Gordon Bowe (N.) Harry Clarke: His Graphic art, folio Dolmen Press 1983; & 3 books on Stained Glass; & Feis na nGleann, A Century of Gaelic Culture in the Antrim Glens, folio 2005, illus. (7)
One of 45 Copies, SignedCo. Westmeath: Egan (Desmond) & Finnerty (Noel) Athlone, A Collection of New Poems with Photographic Illustrations. Oblong folio Newbridge (Goldsmith Press) 1910. Sole Lim. Edition, No. 10 of 45 Copies. signed by Author & Photographer, and with short Unpublished M/ss Poem in the authors hand, Illus. thro-out, in full moroco binding and slipcase. Rare. (1)
Architecture: Shaw (Rob. Norman) Architectural Sketches from the Continent, lg. folio L. 1872. decor. title, & 100 full page plts. (some loosening from binding), a.e.g., orig. mor. backed gilt decor. cloth boards, spine dam.; Allan (Fred. H.) The Great Cathedrals of the World, 2 vols. lg. folio Boston n.d. [1886] full page photogravure plts. some loose, orig. cloth, dam. As a coll. plts. w.a.f.. (8)
Co. Dublin: Murphy (Margaret) & Potterton (M.) The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages, folio D. 2010; Pearson (Peter) Between the Mountains and the Sea, D. 1998; The Heart of Dublin - Resurgence of an Historic City, D. 2000; and Decorative Dublin, folio D. 2002; de Courcy (J.W.) The Liffey in Dublin, D. 1996; Ni Mhyrchadha (M.) Fingal 1603 - 60, D. 2005; & 1 other. All v. good. (7)
Varchi (Benedetto) Storia Florentina, folio Cologne 1721. Engd. port. frontis & add. engd. title, red & bl. title with vignettes, wd. cut heads, tails & initials, dbl. page engd. genealogical table; with Segni (Bernardo) Storie Florentine, ed. with Life by Niccolo Capponi. Folio Augusta 1723. Red & bl. title, wd. cut heads, tails and initials, 2 lg. fold. engd. ports., & fold. genealogical table, both sim. early 19th Century hf. calf, marble sides; Collins (Arthur) Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary .. and Oliver's Usurpation, written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney. 2 vols. folio L. 1746. First Edn. engd. port. frontis Vol. I, list of subs., engd. bookplates, Tervoe etc., cont. mottled calf, joints cracked, tooled gilt spines, worn. (4)
Irish Music: Costello (Mrs.) Tuam, Amhrain Mhuighe Seola, 4to D. 1923, First Edn.; Vallely (F.)ed. A Companion to Irish Traditional Music, sm. folio N.Y. 1999; O'Neill (F.) Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections, of an Eventful Life, in Chicago, Brandon 2008; O'Boyle (S.) The Irish Song Tradition, D. 1976; & 5 other booklets. (10)
Sullivan (Sir E.) The Book of Kells, folio L. & N.Y. 1955; Henry (Francois) The Book of Kells, L. (Thomas & Hudson) 1976, fine plts., cloth & slipcase; Lovett (R.) Irish Pictures, folio L. 1888, illus., decor. cloth; Pyle (H.) Yeats Portrait of an Artistic Family, 4to L. 1997; & 4 other items. (8)
Signed by Artists & EditorsBlackshaw (Basil) & Mallie (E.)ed. Blackshaw, oblong 4to, Belfast 2003, Ltd. Edn., signed by Blackshaw & Mallie, illus., cloth & d.j., slipcase; Mallie (E.) Tom Carr, sm. foio, Belfast 1989, ilus., signed by Mallie, cloth & d.j.; Stairs (Susan) The Irish Figurists, sm. folio, D. 1999, illus., signed Ltd. Edn., 786 (1000), cloth & d.j. (3)
Fine Leather Bound Volumes: Anderson (W.) The Scottish Nation, 3 vols. sm. folio Edin. 1869, illus.; La Trobe (Rev. J.A.) Scripture Illustrations, 4to L. 1838; Bunyan's Allegorical Works, lg. 4to L. n.d., sepia illus.; D'Aubigne - History of the Reformation, lg. 4to Glasgow 1871, engd. plts. attractive block mor. gilt decor. & 1 other, all hf. mor. As bindings. A lot. (7)
Joyce (James) Ulysses, 4to L. (folio) 1998, Ltd. Edn., 215 (1760) Copies, bound in full goatskin with design by Jeff Clements, in clam box; Joyce (James) Th Cat and the Devil, 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 1965, illus. by Gerald Rose, decor. cloth; Yeats (W.B.) The Tower, 8vo, L. (Folio) 1987, uncut, decorative cloth backed marble boards, clean copy. (3)
River Barrow DrainageCo. Carlow: Manning (Rob.) Report to the Commissioners of Public Works, Ireland, on the Drainage of the Lands along the River Barrow and its Tributaries, Folio D. 1884; 8pp; also 1886 Report, folio D. (A. Thom) 1886, with 5 large fold. cold. maps & plans, cont. hf. mor. Scarce. (1)
Cosgrave (Dr. Mac Dowel) & Strickland (W.G.) The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth - Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, sm. folio, D. (Dublin University Press) by Ponsonby & Gibbs) 1909, Vol. I. Lt. Edn. 22 (300) copies, illus., corrigenda (loose), orig. decor. oatmeal cloth. Scarce. (1)
Cuala Press etc: Miller (Liam) The Dun Emer Press, later The Cuala Press, With a List of the Books, Broadsides and other Pieces Printed at the Press. Sm. folio D. (Cuala Press) 1973. Special Lim. Edn. No. 234 of 250 Copies, Signed by Author. Illus. etc., cloth; Gregory (Lady) Coole, sm. folio Colin Smyth 1971. Lim. Edn. 1040 Copies, cloth backed boards, & d.w.; Severin (Tim) The Brendan Voyage, roy 8vo Connecticut (Easton Press) Special 1978 Edition, leather gilt decor. All v. good. (3)
Irish Farming Fairs etc: Feehan (J.) Farming in Ireland, History Heritage an Environment. Folio D. 2003. First Edn.,; Kelly (F.) Early Irish Farming,I D. 2000; O'Connor (P.J.) Fairs and Markets of Ireland, A Cultural Geography, folio n.d.; Logan (P.) Fair Day - The Story of Irish Fairs & Markets, Belfast 1986; Irish Fairs and Markets Studies in Local History, D. 2001; O'Dowd (A.) Spalpeens and Tattie Hokers, D. 1991; Hogg (W.) Mills of Ireland, folio D. 2008; Lucas (A.T.) Cattle in Ancient Ireland, Kilkenny 1989. good lot. (8)
Photographs: Co. Waterford Ballyglan, Woodstown, Waterford, some photos of Paul Family, photos of property and grounds, the family etc., one of Dunmore East, c. 1870, also some later photos of important street scenes, fair day, etc., and some photos of Milan & Venice, etc., approx. 85 photos in all, lg. folio, diced calf, as a coll., w.a.f. (1)
Bookbinding: Craig (Maurice) Irish Bookbindings 1600 - 1800, lg. 4to L. 1954 First Edn., ex libris, illus. buckram; Mc Donnell (Jos.) & Healy (Patrick) Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by T.C.D. in the Eighteenth Century, Sm. folio D. (I.G.S.) 1987. First, illus., cloth & d.w.; & 3 booklets on Irish Bookbinding. (5)
Miller (Liam) Dolmen XXV, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1976, signed Ltd. Edn. 38 (50) copies, leather backed boards, ilus., slip case; Kinsella (Th.) Wormwood, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1966 Signed Ltd. Edn. 350 copies, cloth backed boards, slip case; Montague (John) The Bread God, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1968, Signed Ltd. Edn., 250 copies, ptd. wrappers; Miller (Liam)ed. A Tribute to Austin Clarke on His 70th, 9 May 1966, D. (Dolmen) 1966, Ltd. Edn., ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (4)
Cairnes (Thomas Plunket) A Memento of The Address and Presentation, 4to 1894, For Private Circulation, cloth; Alliance & Dublin Consumers for Gas Company, Acts .. for the Protection of the Company, folio 1871 - 1880, full mor; An Act to facilitate the Winding up of The Munster Bank Ltd. & for other purposes. Folio D. 1887, full mor; Hely's Limited - Memorandum and Articles of Association, D. 1896, full mor.; Royal Declaration Amendment Committee (Ireland) - Report and Appendix,I 4to D. 1910. For Private Circulation ONly, full mor. As a lot. (5)
Co. Offaly: Sraid Ard, Cailini - High Street, Girls School, Leabhar Tinnrimh Laethula, Report Books 1913 - 1917; 1918 - 1923; 1923 - 1931, & 1932 - 1938, 4 folio vols. for Farra Mac Shane, Garrycastle, Birr, Co. Offaly, together with a District Inspector's Observation Book, c. 1880 - 1914, with other notes added later in Irish. As m/ss, w.a.f. (5)
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English Royalty: A good collection of approx. 26 original unofficial and official Photographs of Queen Victoria's Visit to Dublin in 1900, various sizes and mostly inscribed on reverse; Programme of Visit to Ireland of ... King Edward VII & Queen Alexander 21st July - 1st August, 1903, folio D. 1903; The Form and Order of ... Coronation of ... King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, ... 12 May 1937; The Coronation of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2nd June 1953, & other items. As a lot. (1)
With Illustrations by Wendy WalshNelson (E.C.) & Walsh (W.) illus. Wendy Walsh, A Lifetime of Painting, sm. folio, D. 2007, illus., cloth & d.j.; The Wild & Garden Plants of Ireland, 4to L. 2009, illus., cloth & d.j.; Nelson (e.c.) A Heritage of Beauty, 4to D. 2000, illus. cloth & d.j.; Pitcher (J.) & Hull (V.) Flora Hibernica, 4to, Cork 2001, (Reprint), illus., cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
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